Captain America: All for One and One for All for War!
[I could care less if I spoil this movie for you either by revealing plot devices, denouement or "trite and true" verbal and visual propaganda.] “You’ve been asleep, Captain, for about 70 years.”...
View ArticleA Talent for Business, From Parables to Lemonade Stands
I was saying to our illustrious Web Content Editor the other day, “It’s sad that it took me until age 40 to give a shit about the way human life is organized and managed in ways I don’t control or...
View ArticleCommunity Against the Idiots
Hephaisteion (The proposed letter at the end of this is substantially what was posted yesterday though I have revised with the intention of making it more communicative across groups in the hopes that...
View ArticleNeo-Determinism, or Pre-Crime Pre-Made is Predictable
Preparation for Neo-Determinism Earlier this morning I was trying to begin to really grapple with the determinism of guys like Pinker and Dennett (these are liberal determinists–meaning they have good...
View ArticleDe Sade In the Hizzle and Fizzle
Share a Coke in Dubai Huxley, author of A Brave New World, to Orwell, author of 1984. The twin totalitarian fictions of the last century. Which is being realized? Well, my take: We have been living...
View ArticleEconomics and Kindergarten
I would like to offer the following as a critical warm-up to the following “economics” article from the Times (from 2010) about the “value” of the Kindergarten experience. First, be clear, I think...
View ArticleBecause We Said So
I felt the below was worth passing on. We have no “establishment” journalism any longer; from the NYT to the Washington Post to Your Local Paper (if you still have one), these vestiges of another era...
View ArticleUPDATED: Sheep, Wolves, and Sheepdogs, Oh My!
I watched American Sniper (prepping for an interview with Clint Eastwood biographer Patrick McGilligan tomorrow on Interchange) and there is a bit of “warrior philosophy” to give our hero motivation...
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