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The harmony of civilisations
From a blogger in England in reference to the peaceful protests in London by moderate mainstream muslims: "I dislike the supposed contrast that is referred to, even in the most respectable media outlets, between "Western" culture and Muslims, which appears to reject the notion that one can be both Western and Muslim. It's an over-convenient ( Read more... ) -
Edit Wikipedia add propoganda
The article in today's London Times concerning US politicians "polishing" their own information and inserting negative information into opponents shows the weakness of open-source and wiki information sharing while at the same time promoting the peer review nature of such mediums: wiki, open-source, politics, articleIs The Sound Bite Keeping You Down?
The following is from a section of Ohio State's online syllabus for American Military History 582.01 by Prof. Mark Grimsley under the title "Burdens of Empire, Then and Now" examining Noam Chomsky. I excerpted out his interpretation of Chomsky's problem with the sound bite ( Read more... )Free Market Economics
Thomas Frank's critique from "The God that Sucked ( Read more... )Movies
I thought I'd update on something I really love. Movies. Film. Whatever you call them I love watching them. Though I'm not sure how many I've actually seen it has to be near or past the 3,500 mark. I feel confident in rating (See my netflix ratings) around 1,300. The rest I don't feel I can critical review for many different reasons. But I've ( Read more... )Outrageous Fortune
One of my first observations when visiting Lawrence for the first time a little over a year ago was shock at the number of homeless. While living in Oklahoma City I organized hundreds of volunteer teams each year to work in homeless shelters, food banks, and other outreach programs. There was never a time of year when the number of volunteers out ( Read more... )New Year's Inner Peace
As with every New Year's day I find myself thinking back over the year that was and wondering what the year to come has in store. Every couple of years or so I re-take the Myers-Briggs personality type test. I don't give the "answers" to the test any real weight. Instead I read through the different personality types and determine (by the way ( Read more... )Anti-Rational Cry-babies
"No revolution was ever spearheaded by wriggling, chanting drug addicts who are boastfully anti-rational, who have no program to offer, yet propose to take over a nation of 200 million, and who spend their time manufacturing grievances..." - Ayn Rand ( Read more... )Hello All!
Seeing as this is my first post I thought I would do a bit of an introduction. This is not my first blog; my previous one fell into ruin and was never revived. I was too broad with what I was writing about and lost interest quickly. I'll try and create topics for conversation (even if it is one way) and stick with them for at least a month ( Read more... )