We've got some excellent material in my graduate Soc Theory class. We're doing Critical Theory now, which, along with Conflict Theory, is really my bread and butter. This is a quote from today's reading: Herbert Marcuse's work, "One-Dimensional Man ( Read more... )

There's an interesting article you can find at the following link: http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/LAC.20080920.FRAGILE20//TPStory/EnvironmentRead more... )

I like the way the Republicans are acting as though in the light of all this pregnant daughter shit, nobody has a right to ask any questions about the candidate herself. How exactly does that work? The fact of the matter is, nobody fucking cares about her swole-up daughter: nobody, that is, except the conservatives McCain wants to court. The ( Read more... )

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The next person to complain about Dr. Sun's accent is going to get a pickaxe liberally and lovingly applied to their head and neck. I went into his class worried that I wouldn't be able to understand him, based on what I'd heard from other students (the way they complained, you would think he spoke in nothing but clicks and whistles), and it all ( Read more... )

No, I'm not dead. I just haven't had net access in a good month since Cash left (and took his computer with him ( Read more... )

According to this article, the world is going to end today ( Read more... )

I'm alive ( Read more... )

Christina, could you help me get a list together for my first order? Between the two of us, I know we can make sure that nothing vital gets left out.

Pulled off an A in Herndon's Revolution class! Whew. First class I've had in a long time that actually had me concerned. Herndon used to be the head of the Honors College at LSU, and it shows. Man plays for frigging keeps. I'm taking his class next semester in Western Religious Political Thought (from Constantine through the Renaissance). If ( Read more... )