Monthly Archives: January 2011

The Politicized Mind: A Courtier’s Defense of Sarah Palin

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/01/11/opinion/11brooks.html?partner=rssnyt&emc=rss  Cockeyed Platonist (CP) loves the great overarching abstraction: they make the world of randomness ,of the sometimes irrational somehow understandable, intellectually manageable; there is an orderliness of intellectual constructs that the human world sometimes, but not always demonstrates. But … Continue reading

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Guns, Blood and Truth | The Fromson File

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The Giffords Tragedy: Is the Media Partly at Fault? | Rolling Stone Politics | Taibblog | Matt Taibbi on Politics and the Economy

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The Cult of Violent Political Rhetoric, Rampant Conservative Self- Apologetics : The Collision of Actualities

One is uncomfortably and forcefully reminded of Hegel in the Phenomenology of the Spirit( #178-196) of the sections on Lordship and Bondage and even the interminable examination/analysis by Alexandre Kojeve of the slave/master dialectic, while reading Mr. Will’s column of … Continue reading

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New Statesman – Exclusive interview: Julian Assange on Murdoch, Manning and the threat from China

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‘Gentile sperm leads to barbaric offspring’ – Israel Jewish Scene, Ynetnews

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Peter Gordon Reviews Matthew Specter’s “Habermas, An Intellectual Biography” | The New Republic

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Episode XX : The Great Will and the Charlatans

The Great Will opens his latest column with its provocative   title , ‘The charlatan’s response to the Tucson tragedy’ followed by his characterization of critics as indulging in ‘sociology’. Sociology being at its root Marxist with its main intellectual thrust … Continue reading

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Notes to Commenters

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LENIN’S TOMB: “Debatable”

Monday, January 10, 2011 “Debatable” posted by lenin   Gary Younge nails it:   Fights outside town hall meetings, guns outside rallies, Facebook pages calling for assassinations, discussions about the most propitious moment for armed insurrection. In late October I … Continue reading

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