39 minutes ago by God, Gals, Guns, Grub

The news reported today that a two-legged varmint tried to snatch a little gal out of a Walmart down in Georgia. The low-life grabbed her and picked her up, but the feisty little gal kicked and screamed... finally being let go as the ex-con ran off. As my wife and I discussed this story, we reflecte ...

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1 hour ago by bat020

[This is from the March 2006 issue of Socialist Review. It's a slightly ambitious attempt at a joint review of Alex Callinicos's The Resources Of Critique , Slavoj Zizek's The Parallax View , and Alain Badiou's two major works, Being and Event and Logics of Worlds .] In 1845 the young Karl Marx wrot ...

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1 hour ago by Souverian

HOW TO PLAY “Man does not know how to play: this is because, even when he is given a situation of chance or multiplicity, he understands his affirmations as destined to impose limits upon it, his decisions as destined to ward off its effects, his reproductions as destined to bring about the return o ...

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2 hours ago by bat020

[Updating my blog with a couple of book reviews I wrote for Socialist Review. This first one of Alain Badiou's The Meaning of Sarkozy and was published in the March 2009 issue.] Philosophers, it is well known, only interpret the world, when the point is to change it. France’s Alain Badiou is a rare ...

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2 hours ago by evildick13

she was a vision and he was a blind man choking on jam bands pretending california i can taste your red nail polish and feel your cologne tea rose and honey you had me at get lost she’s all pirouette on point ballerina baddass would you dance with me on a man-hole cover would you embrace my shadow h ...

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2 hours ago by verbosestoic

Over at the new Daylight Atheism on Big Think, Adam Lee has posted about the Apologist’s Turnstile, or methods or arguments that he thinks apologists for religion use to avoid having to think about their religion or lose any converts. He starts by regaling ones with the ones he’s talked about before ...

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2 hours ago by Meagan

Mom always taught me that if I didn't have anything nice to say, don't say anything at all. Well, this reflection is going to be difficult to write then. Honestly, my negative thoughts on today's experience reflects mostly on an individual rather than the school as a whole. I literally cannot bring ...

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4 hours ago by John Hitchcock

I have seen multiple cases of Mitt Romney supporters acting very Alinskyite (read Democrat) in their attempts to demonize the strong opposition to Romney. It’s because Romney is a Mormon, they say, (examples can be found in Hot Air comment threads) completely ignoring Romney’s history and actual act ...

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4 hours ago by Alexander R Pruss

I have a new method for testing definitions. Read a definiens to someone, out of context, and ask her what she thinks the definiendum is. If she doesn't come up with something pretty close to the definiendum, you've got reason to think the definition is bad. One can also do this as a thought experim ...

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4 hours ago by Raymond Thomas Pronk

What is Bisphenol A Bisphenol A is a potentially harmful chemical found in common plastic items. Find out what you can do to limit your family’s exposure to Bisphenol A with these parenting tips. Bisphenol A has formally been declared a toxic substance by Canadian authorities Meet the Authors of the ...

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