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Of all that I have learned, the most important lesson was how much a human can suffer. When I was twenty five I wound up in the hospital for three months. I spent days screaming, in so much pain that morphine couldn’t handle it. For about a month I couldn’t move enough to even pull myself up in bed without crippling agony. Later my body decided that every foreign substance was an enemy, and when I was given IV antibiotics, every four hours, I’d spend the next twenty minutes dry heaving, since I couldn’t eat or drink and had nothing to bring up.
It turned out I was one of those people who get psychotic episodes from high doses of steroids. One episode was so bad, prior to hospitalization, that I promised myself I’d commit suicide if it didn’t end in twelve hours.
Strangely, as much physical pain as I experienced, the bad psychotic episodes were worse.
As Harris locks in her presidential nomination, here’s her record on monopolies and financial power.
Some Labour MPs are furious about the "draconian" treatment of those who voted to lift children out of poverty
'There has been a lack of sustained progress by government in reducing the attainment gap between disadvantaged children and their peers', a new report by the National Audit Office has found
'It is a scandal that, in so many constituencies, people did not really have a choice of MP – as the real choice lay with a party machine that can foist MPs upon them'
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July 24th, 2024: I wrote this comic a while back but kept holding off on posting it because there kept being news!! The former President's path to a second term in office just got a lot tougher
It’s the Wednesday pot-pourri – British politics, self promotion, events, sport and music. Politicians invariably claim that the situation they inherit when they take office following an election is untenable and that the ‘public finances’ are worse than they had initially thought. Of course, the idea that ‘public finances’ can be good or bad or…
A monthslong investigation unpacks a false warning and an Israeli airstrike in the deadliest war for journalists on record. The post Israel Falsely Warned It Would Bomb a Media Office. The Actual Airstrike Killed Journalists on a Nearby Street. appeared first on The Intercept. I am proud of the Economic Sociology and Political Economy community blog and social media becoming a source of knowledge and learning, in various forms, for students at all levels. It is also gratifying to see the ES/PE websites links appear in syllabi. In this context, one of the common questions I receive from lecturers […]
Most lawmakers explained their boycott by focusing on the Israeli prime minister himself as a bad actor, rather than the system he represents. The post Dozens of Lawmakers Are Protesting Netanyahu — but Have Little to Say About Israel’s Systemic Abuses of Palestinians appeared first on The Intercept. Josh Marshall notes that even though the Democrats are now hugely enthused about the election, the naysayers who wanted Biden to drop out are still unhappy: [A]lready we’re hearing that this rush of support for Harris is yet another bad thing. Democrats have only just changed the last terrible thing pundits said they were doing only to be told that their solution is also a disaster in the making or at least a mistake. I don’t want to pick on anyone but this piece by Graeme Wood seems to capture this whole new storyline. In a way the argument is just a continuation of the Thunderdome craze of the last six months: a contested convention, blitz primaries, and the like. The new terrible mistake is rallying around Kamala Harris too quickly. Because this just compounds what Wood and seemingly many other pundits and columnists feel is the belief that “Democratic politics felt like a game rigged by insiders to favor a candidate of their choice, and to isolate that candidate from the risk associated with campaigning.” I wish I understood this reflex to stomp all over Democratic hopes from pundits who claim to be liberals.
This fall, I am teaching a course, “Politics Through Literature,” which still has spaces available for students to register. You can register whether you are an undergraduate at Brooklyn College, another college in the CUNY system, or at any college in the New York area. Please reach out to me for information on how to register if you an undergraduate outside the CUNY system. There is no online component; all instruction is in-person. The course is listed as POLS 3440 and meets on Mondays and Wednesdays from 9:30-10:45. Below is the course description from the syllabus. This course takes up some of the most wrenching and destabilizing concerns of politics and art—money, sex, beauty, property, and the family—through great works […]
The contrast between both of these people and that Orange Monster is just so profound.
The Coalition has today announced that West Australian Senator, Linda Karen Reynolds, has been appointed shadow minister for suing women. In a move designed to shore up the Coalitions standing with the female voter. ”Linda is perfectly suited to this... Read More ›
Anil Ananthaswamy’s 3 greatest revelations while writing Why Machines Learn. The post The Elegant Math of Machine Learning appeared first on Nautilus. | ||
