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http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2011/09/22/house-vote-to-defeat-spending-bill-raises-new-government-shutdown-threat.html Is it anything like a surprise that the Tea Party Jacobins now run the Republican Party? The confidence that the old guard expressed to everyone who would listen; to the hushed tone of confidence in the ability of Washington … Continue reading →

http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2011/10/the-shame-of-college-sports/8643/ http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/23/opinion/the-amateur-ideal.html?_r=1&ref=opinion

http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/right-turn/post/clinton-and-obama-learned-nothing-remembered-nothing/2011/03/29/gIQA9zHVoK_blog.html#pagebreak In her column of September 22,2011 Jennifer Rubin severely scolds President Obama and President Clinton for deviating from the AIPAC and Neo-Conservative line on Israel. Not anything like a surprise from an American Likudnik. http://www.opendemocracy.net/opensecurity/james-renton/palestines-un-bid-lessons-from-history-of-zionism But here is James … Continue reading →

http://www.oup.com/us/catalog/general/subject/ReligionTheology/SociologyofRel… I just received my September 16, 2011 issue of the TLS. In it is Bernice Martin’s review titled Feel the Power in which she reviews A Sociology of Religious Emotion. Ms. Martin does engage in a disagreement with Jurgen … Continue reading →

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/20/opinion/brooks-obama-rejects-obamaism.html?_r=4&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss    "I’m a sap, a specific kind of sap. I’m an Obama Sap.”  It is a rather well worn rhetorical trope to make oneself the butt of one’s criticism of another by indirection. Mr. Brooks like so many others … Continue reading →

Just rereading pages 340 to 343 on the cogito. ‘When someone says I am thinking therefore I am, or exist, he does not deduce existence from thought by means of a syllogism, but  recognizes it as something self-evident by a … Continue reading →

I know you've all been waiting for my story on Ms. Huffington, but one must admit that when it comes to insider reporting, dripping with rhetorical treacle and a certain cattiness, Elizabeth Rubin at Vogue has outdone everyone, who has … Continue reading →

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http://www.salon.com/life/ask_wayne/index.html?story=/ent/col/2011/09/16/ask_wayne&source=newsletter&utm_source=contactology&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=Salon_Daily%2520Newsletter%2520%2528Not%2520Premium%2529_7_30_110 Dearest Wayne, The vicissitudes that fate visits upon us all is rather breathtaking. A dizzy old queen dispensing advice to an audience of desperate heteros, brings the notion of irony to a rather bleak dead end! But anyone who … Continue reading →