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Day and night

by Sara Goudarzi

[ july 09 ]

"As words began to accumulate on my laptop, the country also plunged into the economic sewers. I was a sewer engineer once, so expect a lot of metaphors related to excretions."

Lost Christianity

by Joe Palmer

[ july 09 ]

"Remember that organized religion is politics, and missionaries are lobbyists for a new socio-economic order that will bring dental floss and tithes to the unwary. Religionists always serve other masters until they are strong enough in numbers to tell the government what to do."

Science in contemporary fiction

review by Jim Chaffee

Variations on a theme of Richard Powers.

The endless rowing toward democracy

by Robert Philbin

[ july 09 ]

"There is always a marginal 'democracy deficit' at work in any social contract - a power mime inherent in the process of government which, over time, evolves to separate the will of the people from the best interests of the governing elite."

Obama, the past, and another America

by Robert Philbin

[ june 09 ]

The times demand the President's highest level of performance

Translating Habermas; love & justice

by Joe Palmer

[ june 09 ]

"Habermas says we owe our soul to the Company Store, and if we don't pay up, the post-national constellation of barbarians will foreclose on our subprime mortgage, and we'll all be up Shit Creek without a paddle."

A world of racisms, reversals and resurgence

by Stephen Chan

[ may 09 ]

"Racism is often regarded as a binary phenomenon - white against black and, in Robert Mugabe's vision, black against white. But this is incomplete."

Memes

by Joe Palmer

[ may 09 ]

"Wittgenstein brilliantly reduced his conclusions to the introspective principle that you should shut up when you are the only one to think you know what you are talking about."

Moving beyond torture

by Robert Philbin

[ may 09 ]

"The last thing the nation needs right now is a premature end to the Obama honeymoon, but that end appears looming if he cannot move beyond the torture issue."

The New American Islamic War

by Robert Philbin

[ april 09 ]

"As the Obama Administration economic team squanders a brilliant president's public mandate in a futile struggle to re-establish the US economy, President Obama turned his attention to what now might be justly branded as The American Islamic Wars."