05 August 2013

U.S. Blunt Instrument Diplomacy With Russia

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The administration is unhappy with Vladimir Putin for giving temporary sanctuary to N.S.A. whistle blower Edward Snowden. Sen. Chuck Schume...
04 August 2013

Hamburger Grown From Cattle Cells in Holland

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One wonders if there are any moral issues about growing meat in a laboratory? It could free up land for conservation perhaps, yet the cattl...
01 August 2013

The Affirmative Action Sonata and the Ultra-rich

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The affirmative action movement in the United States had the unintended consequence of forcing middle class white males to let go of their...
28 July 2013

Obamanomic Downsizing of the American Majority

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A majority of Americans, about 230 million, take home just 15% of the income of the U.S.A. The top 20% take 85% of the income and the ultr...

On The Existential Analysis of Jean Paul Sartre

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The philosopher Jean Paul Sartre developed a method called existential analysis derived from Freud's innovative psychoanalysis. Existe...
27 July 2013

Introducing 3rdMilleniumblog.blogspot.com

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I have developed another blog. It seems like a good idea to use a different blog for some posts in order to present less of a target to pol...
26 July 2013

Mexican Youth Reportedly Used as Drug Mules-Rep Boehner Disagrees

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Congressional Speaker Boehner has slammed Rep. Steve King rather soundly for King's statements to the effect that Mexican youth are use...
25 July 2013

Rage Against the Meatheads v. 2.0

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Rage against the meatheads do not go gently into a godless chasm of doom pushed by those declaring mind an illusion and the body of ...

Anthony's Weiner, The N.S.A, Gun Control, Green Weenies and Red Herrings

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The  sext messages  of former U.S. Representative Anthony (Carlos Danger) Weiner have become a national news item again in the race for M...
24 July 2013

Evolving Dualism and Dialectics of Schopenhauer and Nietzsche

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A few words about the philosophers Arthur Schopenhauer and Fredrick Nietzsche. Each was a philosophical pessimist of a sort. Their pessimi...
23 July 2013

What Happened to Lost Jamestown Colony? (They Were Eaten)

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A skeleton from the lost Jamestown colony of 1609-10 was determined to have been subject to cannibalism. During the tough winter those firs...
22 July 2013

Select Trends in the U.S. Economy

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There are several trends in then U.S. economy that would seem to support development of a hollowed-out middle class and sustained large nu...
21 July 2013

The U.S. Economy as I See It Today

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The U.S. economy as I see it today is moving in the wrong direction. Yet for Wall Street and the top 20% of U.S. earners taking 85% of the...
20 July 2013

Science Fiction Project Video (reading) Universal WIdget

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I read a few minutes from science fiction prose I am writing. http://youtu.be/_tF3MimLeOs

Renewal of N.S.A. Phone Surveillance, Panopticon, Plutonomy and Rev. Al Sharpton

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Jeremy Bentham as founder of the utilitarian philosophy also developed the design of a panopticon. A panopticon was an institution where al...
19 July 2013

President Obama Identifies Himself With Trayvon Martin All Over Again

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President Obama identified himself once again with the late Trayvon Martin In what was an emotional expression of  sympathy for the 17 year...
18 July 2013

Quantum Cosmology in the Platonic Realm of Forms

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This is a continuing development of a philosophical line renormalizing contemporary quantum cosmology within the Platonic realm of forms. I...