David Carr has a good article in week’s NY Times about Ann Coulter. Tony Norman’s essay “If Ann Coulter’s a Christian, Then I’ll Be Damned” is also quite good. I don’t know anyone who actually likes her (the perils of an extremely limited social group: you think the whole world thinks like you), or thinks …
It’s click-throughs!! Also, you can go to the MoveOn.org site and sign a petition.
Recently, there has been a great deal of talk about ‚??bringing democracy to the Middle East‚?? or about ‚??the spread of democracy around the globe.‚?? But what does that mean? What is democracy? The Oxford English Dictionary stays that a democracy is a ‚??government in which the sovereign power resides in the people as a …
Bill Moyer’s latest essay about our political situation can be found here. Also, check out my links list for Public Campaign, a website of information and resources regarding Clean Money, Clean Elections campaign reform. It’s all about the money, and we need to buy back our politicians!
It’s been a while since I’ve posted any of my homework, but I have been working on this for a while now and thought I’d share. Basically, this is the first half of an assignment for a seminar on radical pedagogy and Paulo Freire. One key practice in Freirean pedagogy is ‚??reading the world‚?? when …
Stories that make you wonder how we every managed to get this far: Patent Thoughts BP, that’s right the ones who are all about the environment and shit. And how much coverage is the mainstream media giving to this? Three Blind Mice – pretty much says it all. Next up, some humor and reflections on …
Mississippi – abortion ban except in cases of rape, incest & the life of the mother. Missouri – expected to pass an abortion ban with no exceptions but for the life of the mother. South Dakota – abortion ban with no exceptions but for the life of the mother. The title of this particular law? …
Plato is not exactly a hero of mine, in fact there is much that I don’t agree with in his philosophies, however, I came across this quote in his The Republic and thought it was so very appropriate to our contemporary political landscape: “The truth is that if you want a well-governed state you must …
Not to mention anti-progressive and, apparently, anti-repreductive rights. Why, because it’s very very easy to vote against Alito when you know the votes won’t count. 42 Senators did so. Yet, hmmm, only 25 of them voted against cloture. I’m not going into a full analysis of why one or the other and this is probably …
By now you will have heard of the ABC program Commander in Chief. My sources (ok, so the green men in the sky can by kind of flaky sometimes, but some of their intel is spot-on), tell me that the show was devised and is writen by EXTREME RIGHT WING FASCIST SEXISTS. Now, why would …