February 2012
I was talking to Praise about my writing project and thinking about priorities and decided to air it out on my blog. Maybe not the best idea.
It’d be foolish to delete my blog. It really is the only place I have to write about some of the more complex things I’m thinking about and in the presence of others who can respond. I can’t easily do that in Seoul. I don’t know that...
what say you?
I’ve got a lot of writing to get to before heading to the US with a manuscript end of June, and though I’ve lost no followers after the last pissing match about antifascist streetwork, white supremacy, and suicide, it appears that the people I regularly engaged with everyday have decided they aren’t permitted to any longer lest they get in trouble. It’s a little annoying...
joemccarthyblues:
Remember how optimistic Ron Paul supporters were before the actual primaries started?
I haven’t heard a peep out of them since we got down to brass tacks with the primaries.
I just mentioned to Vikas that our arguments with the pseudo-libs have almost completely ceased. It’s sad. I loved those arguments.
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Book Reviewing Anselm Berrigan's New Book (526) →
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dagDash: a good debate about liberalism
joemccarthyblues:
Welcome to the Liberal Social Order: Home of the Reactionary Liberal
akagoldfish:
theartofconfusion:
It would be nice if OP provided more context to the situation. While nobody likes white supremacists, you have to remember that they have the same rights as everyone else, no matter how despicable. They still have the freedom of speech, and are allowed to peacefully...
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The libertarian world is an imagined white world...
theartofconfusion:
It would be nice if OP provided more context to the situation. While nobody likes white supremacists, you have to remember that they have the same rights as everyone else, no matter how despicable. They still have the freedom of speech, and are allowed to peacefully assemble.
Again, it depends on the situation and what exactly each party was doing. Otherwise, throwing bottles...
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dagDash: a good debate about Obama's corporate tax...
interruptions:
joemccarthyblues:
leftliberty:
Corporations don’t need a tax cut, so why is Obama proposing one?
The Obama administration is proposing to lower corporate taxes from the current 35 per cent to 28 per cent for most companies and to 25 per cent for manufacturers.
The move is supposed to be “revenue neutral” - meaning the administration is also proposing to close assorted...
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Shallow Green Resistance: "The Hope Here"
I’m not picking on frustrated-teenage-anarchist with this post. I’m simply sharing the quote he posted. My frustration is directed at its author and not him. Got it.
So. Here’s what Premadasi Amada, Deep Green Resistance organizer, has to say:
“The only explanation for why more isn’t happening in response to the daily announcements of our ecocide and genocide has to be...
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The Biggest Lie in PoliSci
akagoldfish:
“The central ideological conflict in the United States is over the size and scope of government”
This is something you’ll probably hear if you take US Politics & Government at the college level or AP Gov in highschool. It’s also completely false.
It’s not only wrong in terms of how it cuts off extra-establishment discourse, totally erasing radical thought from US politics....
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statehate doesn't know what prescriptivism is →
statehate:
dagseoul:
Nobody uses whom anymore, people willfully split infinitives, sentences purposefully ended with prepositions, and now the serial comma is to be avoided as a general rule. Prescriptivists are likely going to be really pissed a new edition of an Oxford University guide suggests a comma can be used, however, if it assists meaning or resolves ambiguity. OMG! A style guide...
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victorioushandofgod reblogged your link: Oxford Comma Dropped
In favor, but I still use ‘whom,’ so I’ll keep that.
I was merely pointing out that the choice to use who rather than whom has become more acceptable over time. We make choices as writers. Basically, this old post of mine was a way for me to crap on prescriptivism, which, as a teacher and a writer, I loathe.
Using whom is fine. I do...
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akagoldfish replied to your post: Aren’t you a straight, white cismale?
someone’s cranky you blocked him.
and to think, today’s tumblring was me finding all sorts of awesome on my dash and even from people I usually disagree with.
oh well.
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“Identity is the Ur-form of ideology.”
– Theodore Adorno, Negative Dialectics
Anonymous asked: Aren't you a straight, white cismale?
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Citizens have never pulled themselves up by their...
even more little bits of awesome on my dash,
and from an unsuspected though welcome source.
logicallypositive:
the thing that, lately, has stricken me as curiously odd about libertarianism is that it is an ideology, a political philosophy, that strives not to achieve a goal, to work towards creating something, but to restore a lack of something, to return to a deplenished state of voidness. Liberty in the libertarian conception is a...
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Sexism in political discourse: What Are Women For?
Have you read James Poulos’s Daily Caller editorial? It’s pretty fucking thick. The title alone is enough to inspire me to throw a brick at the person asking it. It’s explicitly sexist. What are women for (for or to whom)? In other words, women are composed as subjects in relation to men and the question suggests that they are present to others to serve specific purposes in...
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The taxes are theft claim is a canard
that distracts participants in discussions about tax from talking about the reason taxes exist at all. Capitalists (that’s big c Capitalists) and the richest classes simply refuse to participate in society other than to exploit the laboring classes for profit.
It’s not exactly theft; however, what they do is much closer to theft than taxation ever could be.
This is my follow up to...
more little bits of awesome on my dash.
See anticap’s response in bold.
anticapitalist:
“It is our responsibility as lawmakers and educators to make this system work. But it is the responsibility of every citizen to participate in it. And so tonight, I ask every American to commit to at least one year or more of higher education or career training. This can be community college or a four-year school; vocational training or an...
look at this bit of awesome i just found on my...
of-praxis:
this is one of the reasons why an academic study of race is important; people of color make the same mistakes in naturalizing race as a defining or universal feature. this is one of my pet peeves, people who try to normalize race. a common way in which this is done is by thinking of history that existed before the conceptualization of race in racial terms.
if you think that ancient...
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dagSounds: Cheater Slicks
Cheater Slick on discogs. I love Cheater Slicks. Great stuff.
“My Little Red Book” You Don’t Satisfy 7” on Sympathy for the Record Industry (1990) “Hook or Crook” Trouble Man 7” on Crypt Records (1995) “It’s Not Your Birthday” Yer Last Record (2002) “Go Go Gorilla” If Heaven is Your Home/Go Go Gorilla 7” (1991) ...
rebelwithabuspass:
Bpeople - Can Can’t
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White Power 101:
apathyispoison reblogged your quote: We offer a heartfelt apology if anyone was…
… Ben and Jerry’s apologized to a company who titled an article “A Chink in the Armor”. Mother fucking what
I know, huh. Isn’t this a great example for white power in US culture? I think so. ESPN calls out Ben & Jerry’s not to stick up for Jeremy Lin but to help quickly cover up it’s...
“We offer a heartfelt apology if anyone was offended by our handmade Lin-Sanity...”
– Ben & Jerry’s (to ESPN) in response to the release of their lychee and fortune cookie ice cream “honoring” Jeremy Lin and his “accomplishments”.
White people just don’t know what to do with an Asian American superstar.
Anonymous asked: How can you sit there and state...
servile-masses-arise:
I can sit here and say that because it’s true. Meat production continues to accelerate. Veganism may have made the demand for meat slightly less than it would have been otherwise, but with overall demand for meat growing so rapidly, it’s had no effect on production.
Ask someone who knows about economics. Even if there was a significant reduction in the demand for meat, that...
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Glasgow Anti-Fascists 1-0 SDL / NWI / NEI →
servile-masses-arise:
(From the above linked blog)
“Racist thugs “organised” a demo in Glasgow today. They were crap. Antifascists were awesome. Police put SDL on minibuses and sent them out of the city centre early afternoon as otherwise we would have eaten them up.”
Yas.
Fascists in St Enoch square? I canny fuckin believe it. Wish I wasnae on the other end of the world. Still, it looks as...
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dagsounds: Burn Out Sessions No7
Right in the middle of my set, my landlord appeared with someone to check our gas lines. You’ll notice I had to throw on a segment from another dj’s mix to keep the session going while I assisted the woman from the gas company. Good set despite the interruption that forced me to alter the mood of it.
Burn Out Sessions No 7: Free Radicals (Via my dropbox and Cover Art &...
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dagSounds: Burn Out Sessions & Torrents
Monday morning in Seoul and I’m setting up my equipment to record another Burn Out Sessions. I thought I’d post another list of my torrents and prior Burn Out Sessions. The Sessions are pretty good, I think, for the cheap means I have at my disposal to mimic a set from my small Seoul flat. I really do miss my turntables and records. The Sessions are more therapy than anything. Anyway,...
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Slavery By Another Name →
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Repo Man Rides Again: Alex Cox Interviewed →
Repo Man is coming out on Blu-ray but not here in the United States. Why?
AC: Universal Studios has an antipathy towards Repo Man and towards Walker. I don’t think they will ever bring out a good version in the US. I can’t understand why Universal won’t do a sequel given how much money they made off the original Repo Man. It’s an institutional animus. The kinds of...
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Isn't lavender and silver rather goth?
musing. bait.
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Arizona Debate: Conservative Chickens Come Home to... →
Ron Paul is surely the most embarrassing candidate. Calling people fake while he yaps about Planned Parenthood killing babies. Who’s fake?
It’s not like we expect anything different from Gingrich, Santorum, or Romney.