These songs rocked my world in 2005 ( Read more... )

"The 'org' domain notwithstanding, Critical Mass is not an organisation, it's an unorganised coincidence. It's a movement ... of bicycles, in the streets." (www.critical-mass.org ( Read more... )

[For those unfamiliar Alsdair Roberts is a folk singer on the Drag City label, noted for his reinterpritations of British and Irish folk songs. Highly Recomended ( Read more... )

It’s funny how a job will affect your perspective on life. Before I started working in call centers, I thought of them as convenient targets for juvenile prank phone calls. During my Elementary and Middle School days I would call random 1-800 numbers and annoy the customer service representatives. If the cereal I was eating had a customer service ( Read more... )

Rebels Without a Clue ( Read more... )

Some amount of social control is necessary in order to maintain a functioning society. All but the most ardent libertarian or anarchist would agree that certain sectors of any population (namely murders, rapists and other criminals) need to be contained and denied freedom which in theory should be granted to everyone. In an ideal world, individuals ( Read more... )

The myth of mythologyReviewed by Karen Armstrong ( Read more... )

Andrew Sullivan: Not-so-picky penguins muddy the morality war ( Read more... )

Are Certain Philosophical Problems not Worth the Effort ( Read more... )

When I was in middle school, I seriously considered putting one of my eyes out in order to wear an eye-patch. Eye patches, as my opinion held, were the height of good taste, speaking at once to a battle worn stateliness of a colonial military officer as well as the debonair charm of forest brigands or high seas privateers. I have recently begun ( Read more... )