Category Archives: Religion

Tainted Love or Yuppie Scum: the lathe of Heaven on Earth

Posted on December 3, 2016 by ann li-summers

  By ann summers “Sometimes I feel like … huh-huh, immanentizing the Eschaton or gnarfulling the Garthok” pleased to announce President Obama will be joining Eschaton World Industries — Atrios (@Atrios) December 2, 2016 After 8 November 2016, all we … Continue reading →

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Hailing the Western Imperium, How Trump’s lingua quartii imperii defeated HRC’s quants

Posted on November 13, 2016 by ann li-summers

By ann summers We now know how the ruling class will rule: on the backs of middle-class folks and delivered like any media ratings audience where the Brexit-style message resonated to an ideologically stable population sub-group that had been data-mined because … Continue reading →

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Word Cloud: EARTH

Posted on September 16, 2016 by wordcloud9

by NONA BLYTH CLOUD Religion and Science — two different approaches to the questions, How Does Stuff Work? and Why Do Things Happen? When you start with the same questions, you often uncover similar answers. The Elements, for example. The “basic four”— … Continue reading →

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With The Advent Of Social Media, Hating-On-The-Poor Posts Have Become A Genre

Posted on September 15, 2016 by Nicole Plyler Fisk

By Nicole Plyler Fisk I have lots of important things to write about (Syria, gun control, etc.), and I do write about them — often. But then my groove is interrupted, and I have to stop, because people from my … Continue reading →

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ON THIS DAY: July 9, 2016

Posted on July 9, 2016 by wordcloud9

July 9th is: Bald Is In Day Body Painting Day National Sugar Cookie Day (George Washington) Carver Day (Alexander) Hamilton Grange Day NATIONAL HOLIDAYS AROUND THE WORLD Canada – Nunavut Day Malaysia – Penang Governor’s Birthday Palau – Constitution Day … Continue reading →

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ON THIS DAY: July 2, 2016

Posted on July 2, 2016 by wordcloud9

July 2nd is: I Forgot Day Chicken Wing Day World UFO Day Cherry Pit Spitting Day National Holidays Around the World Laylat al-Qadr (Night of Destiny, a Muslim holy day, is a national holiday in many countries) Bangladesh – 1st … Continue reading →

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Screw Political Correctness – DAESH is Salafi-jihadism

Posted on June 21, 2016 by ann li-summers

By ann summers “PC” as a RWNJ / GOP media canard: reactionary language licenses for LIVs in a pluralist democracy President Obama on Tuesday offered one of his longest public explanations yet for why he doesn’t use the phrase “radical Islam” … Continue reading →

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Memes of a feather: ‘radical Islamic terrorism’ and ‘radical Christian terrorism’

Posted on June 14, 2016 by ann li-summers

Immanuel Kant — ‘Out of the crooked timber of humanity, no straight thing was ever made.’   By ann summers Home-grown extremism still intersects and is intersectional, so expressing “radical islamic terrorism” like “radical Christian terrorism” are as PBO indicated today about political talking points, there’s no … Continue reading →

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A historic moment revealing a Pyhrric defeat for Trump

Posted on May 31, 2016 by ann li-summers

By ann summers Even as Trump tried to make canceling a Sanders-Trump debate this week in Caifornia into a positive meme (“I don’t debate second-place candidates”), he lost because his ditching a debate in the Iowa GOP primary using the … Continue reading →

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Morning Open Thread – Drones, the new UFOs

Posted on April 28, 2016 by Chuck Stanley

Morning Open Thread is an open discussion forum for human interest news of the day. It would be hard to guess if one tries to follow TV news, but other things actually occur in the world besides election primaries. British … Continue reading →

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