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Van der Leun
Editor and writer for American Digest at http://americandigest.org.
Interests: art, books, photography, poetry, zen, philosophy, politics, and who put the bomp in the bomp-de-bomp....
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Ah yes. Now I see where you're going with this.
The False Majority
It's better to be the king of a small hill, than a prince at a higher elevation. -- Cobb's Rule #9. The last book I just finished reading is Bruce Schneier's Liars and Outliers. It is a very interesting and good book which goes into some detail about security, trust, society and all things rela...
Oh it can yield meat and you're first.
The False Majority
It's better to be the king of a small hill, than a prince at a higher elevation. -- Cobb's Rule #9. The last book I just finished reading is Bruce Schneier's Liars and Outliers. It is a very interesting and good book which goes into some detail about security, trust, society and all things rela...
I think there's something essential missing here: "Somewhere around whatever we were in the 1950s in breaks and there is the active nation and there is the passive nation. "
The False Majority
It's better to be the king of a small hill, than a prince at a higher elevation. -- Cobb's Rule #9. The last book I just finished reading is Bruce Schneier's Liars and Outliers. It is a very interesting and good book which goes into some detail about security, trust, society and all things rela...
Forget the homeopathy. I'm waiting for George's update on his homopathy.
The Science is Throbbing
This chap, via Peter Risdon. I do hope someone’s told Caroline Lucas.
"ince there has been no public outcry about the Alderman not standing for the pledge. "
Well, if it was not reported it is hard to see how the public would know about it one way or the other.
Protest: Three more split with Register
Carole Osterink has the latest on the turmoil that is apparently worsening at the Register-Star, writing that the paper now also has lost an editor and two more reporters, in addition to the Friday firing of Casey: http://www.gossipsofrivertown.blogspot.com/2012/11/ear-to-ground.html Gossips ...
Speaking for white folks born in LA I'd have to say that it's not race that drives us to suicide in LA. It's parking.
Suicide: Erasing White Privilege Since 1994
Deaths by Suicide By Race Los Angeles County, 1994 - 2003 Race All Races White Black Hispanic Asian/Pacific Islander Suicides Rate* Suicides Rate* Suicides Rate* Suicides Rate* Suicides Rate* 2003 727 8 442 12 55 6 163 4 65 5 ...
You know, somehow I'm not worried one bit.
Jaded Old Farts & The Need for 'Creativity'
I'm not sure that world needs more ballet dancers, but I'm more convinced that we don't need the sort we would get out of public schools. It is absolutely true that the architecture of public education is industrial but so are most of the jobs as 'jobs'. I mean if you want to get 'a job...
"Play is a natural human expression. When enshrined as a cultural nucleus, such play leads to cultures of competency. "
No, it leads to the kind of shitting in the streets play we are currently witnessing in New York courtesy of the "Occupy" children.
Jaded Old Farts & The Need for 'Creativity'
I'm not sure that world needs more ballet dancers, but I'm more convinced that we don't need the sort we would get out of public schools. It is absolutely true that the architecture of public education is industrial but so are most of the jobs as 'jobs'. I mean if you want to get 'a job...
Sorry, I couldn't take more than 5 minutes of clicking around in this jabber. He's a self-parody when he says "But ADHD hadn't been invented," but I don't think he can see that.
Jaded Old Farts & The Need for 'Creativity'
I'm not sure that world needs more ballet dancers, but I'm more convinced that we don't need the sort we would get out of public schools. It is absolutely true that the architecture of public education is industrial but so are most of the jobs as 'jobs'. I mean if you want to get 'a job...
"Perhaps Cornell West has moved politically from being a democratic socialist to a revolutionary socialist."
Make that "to a clown socialist" and you've got it right.
Playthell Benjamin's Open Letter
Posted without comment. Dear Cornell After reading your Op-Ed column on Dr. Martin Luther King in the New York Times, I felt compelled to sit down and write you a letter. Since the conversation that I want to have with you is about public matters i.e. the fate of our nation and...
Well, I -- for one -- am not Troy Davis, but then I'm never one to partake of any of those maudlin "I am ___ _____" campaigns. There are only so many bands that will fit on a wrist.
However, "I have no opinion on the matter because I haven't bothered to look." Well, I don't blame you because it is a deep and tangled pool. I, however, have looked quite deeply into this case over the past two weeks. I mean Lexis-Nexis trial transcript deep. From that I've got to say that this was a deeply tainted case from the beginning and the execution was, first last and always, wrong. For what it's worth, this execution was a travesty of justice. And I didn't go into my researches with this conclusion in mind.
I Am Not Troy Davis
Apparently a black man was killed. There was some purpose in his killing, and some people felt it was the right thing to do, and some other people felt it was a waste of a human life. I have no opinion on the matter because I haven't bothered to look. Nevertheless, the head of the NAACP as well...
Well, with Christie out and Palin off riding in the distance, today it looks like the smart play is going to be Romney|Cain 2012 under the rubric "Gettin US Back to Business." Once the current resident is ousted by this ticket it's going to put blathering in argot such as "Boy, you better keep grinnin and shinin if you wanna be a teabagger token negroe!!" back into the distinctly retro category. Best practice thy locution.
Herman Cain from the Kwaku Network
I suspect that one of these days black Americans are going to treat Herman Cain the way they used to treat him before he became prominently known as a Republican, which is to say, a man of great accomplishments. That day may come soon. Witness the following from the Kwaku Network: Herman Cain i...
Buckdances? Cher Sub, I am at a loss to account for your continuing sense of shame concerning your stature. Surely it is entirely unwarranted. As an adult it is time you got used to being a midget.
Herman Cain from the Kwaku Network
I suspect that one of these days black Americans are going to treat Herman Cain the way they used to treat him before he became prominently known as a Republican, which is to say, a man of great accomplishments. That day may come soon. Witness the following from the Kwaku Network: Herman Cain i...
Oh, overcome thy double difficulty and have a go, CD. I'm sure your unquenchable rage is equal to the heavy task. I await thy thunder!
Black Cow
Long ago at Cobb I set a benchmark of seriousness on racial and other political issues to One Lynch Factor, which to my reckoning was 3000 deaths over 3 generations. If some people didn't suffer on that level or greater I feel free to mock their suffering. For the most part I honor that line, bu...
"I also agree that the application of affirmative action sucked, but that doesn't mean the concept is flawed. "
"I also agree that the application of communism in (insert the first 10 examples from history) but that doesn't mean that the concept is flawed."
"If discrimination was the cause discrimination can be a large part of the solution."
" If human equality is to be forever averted--if the High, as we have called them, are to keep their places permanently--then the prevailing mental condition must be controlled insanity."
Is That What You Want?
Campus Republicans at Cal Berkeley make a point. A good point.
I'd be surprised if "Sub" could remember where s/he parked hiser gum before turning the last trick.
Is That What You Want?
Campus Republicans at Cal Berkeley make a point. A good point.
Check out
http://www.moviesherlock.com/
and see if that will work for you.
The Couple of the Year
Niall Ferguson and Ayaan Hirsi Ali. Two of my favorite minds on the planet. The awesomeness is practically unfathomable.
Do you mean to claim that you are actually a person of the negro persuasion? I admit I was fooled. I had you down as a Cherokee.
Is That What You Want?
Campus Republicans at Cal Berkeley make a point. A good point.
As a Berkeley alumnus I support this fledgling effort to make race-based retailing the mode of the future. I deeply regret that the diversity dunderheads don't see how "revolutionary" this bake-sale actually is.
(I note in passing that if subrealism would change h/er/is login to "The Ward Connerly Franchise" it would do his dull repetition schtick for h/er/im.)
Is That What You Want?
Campus Republicans at Cal Berkeley make a point. A good point.
Only subrealists can comfortably wallow in such subignorance.
MLK In Stone
Someday in our family history it will be recorded that on the day of its inauguration, my neice performed with her orchestra at the dedication ceremony of the MLK Memorial in Washington. And we will have pictures and video and memories to commemorate the realization of the event. The event will ...
"I don't be taking no mess from whitey! Go hide the white women!"
Both here and elsewhere you seem to default rather quickly to this odd and archaic persona and even odder obsession with the color of concubines. Do you have persistent headaches and a swollen feeling in your uterus? There is medication for the former and self-administered therapy for the latter. Dilute!
MLK In Stone
Someday in our family history it will be recorded that on the day of its inauguration, my neice performed with her orchestra at the dedication ceremony of the MLK Memorial in Washington. And we will have pictures and video and memories to commemorate the realization of the event. The event will ...
Ditto Detroit.
MLK In Stone
Someday in our family history it will be recorded that on the day of its inauguration, my neice performed with her orchestra at the dedication ceremony of the MLK Memorial in Washington. And we will have pictures and video and memories to commemorate the realization of the event. The event will ...
"I am almost rendered speechless."
So close and yet so far...
MLK In Stone
Someday in our family history it will be recorded that on the day of its inauguration, my neice performed with her orchestra at the dedication ceremony of the MLK Memorial in Washington. And we will have pictures and video and memories to commemorate the realization of the event. The event will ...
"Are you serious? Please explain that one. I am quite curious."
You are about as curious as a planeria.
MLK In Stone
Someday in our family history it will be recorded that on the day of its inauguration, my neice performed with her orchestra at the dedication ceremony of the MLK Memorial in Washington. And we will have pictures and video and memories to commemorate the realization of the event. The event will ...
There were a few who were granted anonymity because of "special status." Bulbheadmyass was one and I still don't know who she was. There were a few others too. Maybe someone from the Dead. Maybe Mitch Kapor for a bit.
I was granted in collusion with Gail a second login, "FredM," for pranking purposes. I immediately used it to gore various oxen and, most tellingly, to have several thermonuclear flame wars with myself.
Gail was taken to the woodshed for that one.
The Pseud
There has been something of a controversy about pseudonyms on Google+. This is something I know about, outside of that particular controversy. Interestingly, I have decided in one way what to do that forces me to deal and I think forces others to deal as well. I have dealt with identity online ...
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