Another example of a ‘serious’ person not knowing how to do serious work. Carson plagiarizes others to an enormous amount in his book based on this article. Ben Carson’s History Book Plagiarizes SocialismSucks.Net And Many Other Sources – BuzzFeed News.
“The police were not created to protect and serve the population. They were not created to stop crime, at least not as most people understand it. And they were certainly not created to promote justice. They were created to protect the new form of wage-labor capitalism that emerged in the mid to late nineteenth century…
“Two studies have found that at least 40% of police officer families experience domestic violence, (1, 2) in contrast to 10% of families in the general population.(3) A third study of older and more experienced officers found a rate of 24% (4), indicating that domestic violence is 2-4 times more common among police families than…
The New York Times comes out squarely against US torture (undertaken for whatever reason, even 9/11) and takes a stand for prosecuting those Americans who condoned or supported torture: “Starting a criminal investigation is not about payback; it is about ensuring that this never happens again and regaining the moral credibility to rebuke torture by…
More of the same: “The wealthy are getting wealthier. As for everyone else, no such luck. A report released on Wednesday by the Pew Research Center found that the wealth gap between the country’s top 20 percent of earners and the rest of America had stretched to its widest point in at least three decades.”…
Resistance is futile.
Yes, more flexibility to cut those subjects in schools that make life worth living and allow us to examine the nature of human life: “Dozens of people stood outside the Ohio Department of Education headquarters—shouting in support of the state’s so-called “five of eight” rule. It says for every 1,000 elementary students, schools should have…
Police Culture from the inside. Worth reading: “Even when officers get caught, they know they’ll be investigated by their friends, and put on paid leave. My colleagues would laughingly refer to this as a free vacation. It isn’t a punishment. And excessive force is almost always deemed acceptable in our courts and among our grand juries.…
The most interesting part of this article is the following–the person who took the footage of Garner’s death at the hands of the police, which is legal across the nation, was arrested: “Where did this video come from? A young man named Ramsey Orta was standing near Garner on that July 17 afternoon when the…
Long afterward, Oedipus, old and blinded, walked the roads. He smelled a familiar smell. It was the Sphinx. Oedipus said, ‘I want to ask one question. Why didn’t I recognize my mother?’ ‘You gave the wrong answer,’ said the Sphinx. ‘But that was what made everything possible,’ said Oedipus. ‘No,’ she said. ‘When I asked,…
Fascinating short article on how architecture, which we are to a large extent blind to due to it naturalization, is bound up in social control: “An architect that is running an office, who is in debt and pays salaries, has all the economic incentives to take it [a commission], but must resist it. The punishment…
“The bourgeoisie of the whole world, which looks complacently upon the wholesale massacre after the battle, is convulsed by horror at the desecration of brick and mortar!”–K. Marx via The Civil War in France.
This looks fantastic: video-on-demand release on January 27th. via ‘The Kingdom of Dreams and Madness’ reveals the tortured genius of Studio Ghibli | The Verge.
“What started as a philosophy promulgated by black elites to ‘uplift the race’ by correcting the ‘bad’ traits of the black poor has now evolved into one of the hallmarks of black politics in the age of Obama, a governing philosophy that centers on managing the behavior of black people left behind in a society…
Read this small statement from Le Guin (see link): “I think hard times are coming when we will be wanting the voices of writers who can see alternatives to how we live now and can see through our fear-stricken society and its obsessive technologies to other ways of being, and even imagine some real grounds…
