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Rootless cosmopolitan,down at heels intellectual;would be writer. 'Polemic is a discourse of conflict, whose effect depends on a delicate balance between the requirements of truth and the enticements of anger, the duty to argue and the zest to inflame. Its rhetoric allows, even enforces, a certain figurative licence. Like epitaphs in Johnson’s adage, it is not under oath.' https://www.lrb.co.uk/v15/n20/perry-anderson/diary

AC Grayling: ‘How can you be a militant atheist? It’s like sleeping furiously’ | Books | The Guardian

Posted on April 12, 2011 by stephenkmacksd

Yes, I’m the velvet version, via guardian.co.uk

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Of the 1%, by the 1%, for the 1% | Society | Vanity Fair

Posted on April 12, 2011 by stephenkmacksd

via vanityfair.com Here is the bad news!

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Almost Marx on Cockeyed Platonist Constructs an Ars Poetica

Posted on April 12, 2011 by stephenkmacksd

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/12/opinion/12brooks.html?src=ISMR_HP_LO_MST_FB Here is Cockeyed Platonist (CP) at the point of literary desperation, as his deadline draws near. Here are a mass of disparate quotations pressed into a nearly readable, yet thin,essay on 'The Poetry of Everyday Life'.He goes all over … Continue reading →

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How Obama can outflank Republicans on their right – PostPartisan – The Washington Post

Posted on April 12, 2011 by stephenkmacksd

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New York Times Editorial: Unfettered Campaign Money

Posted on April 12, 2011 by stephenkmacksd

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/04/12/opinion/12tue1.html?ref=opinion

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Just for Caregivers – Managing Caregiver Burnout

Posted on April 12, 2011 by stephenkmacksd

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Almost Marx on Intellectual Catamites for American Capital

Posted on April 12, 2011 by stephenkmacksd

Intellectual Catamites for American Capital (ICAC) is an organization formed in 1975, just before The Reagan Revolution happened. It is  an organization based on the economic thought of great economists of the past Hayek,Friedman, and the Chicago School. But the … Continue reading →

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Military Rape

Posted on April 11, 2011 by stephenkmacksd

http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2011-04-03/male-rape-in-the-military-being-confronted/

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Almost Marx on American Capitalism

Posted on April 11, 2011 by stephenkmacksd

Capitalism is not about job creation or civic responsibility or any of the other quaint political notions, enumerated in our founding documents. It is about profit and profit only, and it is politically naive to think that, somehow, the practitioners … Continue reading →

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epoddle’s Channel

Posted on April 10, 2011 by stephenkmacksd

http://s.ytimg.com/yt/swfbin/watch_as3-vflvORKLE.swf via youtube.com Love it !!!!

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