Departing from this amusing yet entirely real vignette, it is worth considering several outstanding and insightful books that thoughtfully engage with various dimensions of this fascinating subject matter: Billig, M. (1995). Banal nationalism. Sage. Bloch, M., & Parry, J. (Eds.). (1989). Money and the morality of exchange. Cambridge University Press. Desan, C. (2014). Making money: […]
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My God. What has happened to the Republican Party? The Party of Lincoln, for goodness’ sake!
Nothing about them resembles the Party of Lincoln. Like, for instance, they have a signature hat, but it’s not a stovepipe one.
They don’t wear blankets over their shoulders and laps indoors to protect against the chill as they strategize about the Civil War in 1864. They just turn up the thermostat while fantasizing about a Civil War in 2026.
They don’t see plays anymore. And if they do, they get photographed doing hand stuff during them. Lincoln never did hand stuff. He was too busy bearing the heavy mantle of statehood to do hand stuff. And if he did do hand stuff at any plays, he wouldn’t get photographed. Photographs took longer than hand stuff back then.
They don’t project from their diaphragm with a high, powerful voice that carries their poetic oratory over the heads of the crowd assembled at Gettysburg. They bark unhealthily from the throat like someone who doesn’t understand how a speakerphone works.
They don’t likely have undiagnosed Marfan syndrome, and in fact, they’re not tall at all. Physically or spiritually.
It is a public holiday in Australia today and I decided that I would use the time, which is free of workplace-type interruptions, to finalise a major project that has an impending (very) deadline. So happy holidays to all not that the global events are anything to be very happy about.
Why it’s difficult and perhaps even morally perilous to rule out the possibility of AI consciousness
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Beyond the initial shame, there are rich rewards in sharing important, hidden parts of ourselves with others
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Easy access to desperately needed drugs has made India the global accelerant of our antimicrobial resistance crisis
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The Day My Dog Spontaneously Combusted there he was –chasing sticks,doing tricks,and all that stuff next minute, woof
Pete McTighe, Steven Moffat, and more attended the screening of the recovered Doctor Who episodes "The Nightmare Begins" and "Devil's Planet."
Det är inte bara den faktiska inkomstutvecklingen som gjort att de ekonomiska klyftorna i Sverige ökat, även skattesystemet och skattepolitiken har bidragit till utvecklingen. När skatterna har sänkts mer för dem med högre inkomster har de fått en starkare inkomstutveckling efter skatt jämfört med grupper som inte fått del av skattesänkningarna. Skattesatsen har sjunkit betydligt […]
Slow Puncture I’d use every one of them – each tiny symbol / sign –to ‘light up’ my words … and write eye-catching lines:the comma; the colon; the ellipsis; the slash;the question mark; the hyphen; the en and em dash. In stanzas 1-2, it was all there on show(Was there nothing not used? The short…
Maj and I went to see a world-famous comedian perform in Montreal a week or so back. It was fun and funny, but he made some cringeworthy errors talking to the audience that cost him some flat deliveries and lost him some laughs. I’ve seen it a lot when American performers come to Montreal and … Continue reading Notes for US Performers in Montreal
Ahead of next week’s resident doctors’ strike, Keir Starmer and Health Secretary Wes Streeting issued an extraordinary ultimatum to the doctors’ union, the BMA: call off the planned six-day walkout or lose 1,000 promised training posts. The BMA rejected the ultimatum, and the government has now scrapped plans to create the training posts. The six-day […]
By making Iran into a religious crusade, Trump’s spiritual advisers are making the war that much more difficult to end.
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It is telling that Marx once more occupies an important and positive place in Habermas’s story. Once harshly criticized in the Philosophical Discourse of Modernity, by Also a History of Philosophy Marx is promoted to being the Enlightenment figure par excellence, the thinker who singularly restored reason’s vital critical, even revolutionary, power. One saw glimpses of Habermas […]
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4 servings You will need:1 lb beef filletssalt and pepper1 tablespoon oil Garnish:1 onion, choppedparsleylittle minced pickles2 anchovy fillets1 teaspoon capers1 teaspoon paprika4 egg yolks Remove the skin from the meat. Chop it with a sharp knife. Season with salt and pepper. Knead the meat with a little oil, and form into 4 flat thin […]
Federal agents’ indiscriminate use of tear gases and “less-lethal” projectiles has become a mainstay of protest crackdowns.
The post DHS Launches Massive “Less Lethal” Chemical Weapons Buying Spree appeared first on The Intercept.
Wherever I look, my gaze can find something horrific on which to focus. Whether it be news of atrocities committed by our fascist-leaning governments, obvious acceleration towards environmental collapse, or the Criterion Collection’s glaring omission of the Jackass series, heinous evils are all around us.
Yet, despite it all, I still believe in the unassailable goodness of humanity.
I also believe that the Easter Bunny is a real, tangible creature capable of wielding magic and producing plastic eggs filled with individually wrapped candies.
Throughout human history, righteousness inevitably triumphs over evil. Yes, sometimes the darkness becomes so strong and oppressive that we forget what the light is like. And that darkness can last for so long that people live entire lives in its grip. But eventually, the light always returns.
When the viral video cooled off, people thought the case against the 62-year-old would be dropped. Prosecutors doubled down.
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