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From Ronald to The Donald: “There are Two Donald Trumps” like there are (at least) Two Amerikas
By ann summers We’ve moved from figures of speech to violent acts of speech on bodily figures; the history of the GOP and its Southern Strategy is now manifest in its ur-candidate, the WWE The People’s Bro-maniac tRump. As Ben Carson of … Continue reading
Posted in 2016 Election, California, Civil Liberties, Conservatives, Constitutional Law, Democracy, DHS, Equal Rights, Fascism, Fascists/Corporatists, FBI, Free Speech, Government, History, information Technology, Internet, Justice, Law Enforcement, Liberals, Libertarians, Media, Nazis/Nazism, Neoconservatives, Neoliberals, Police, Progressives, RNC, Ronald Reagan, Society, State Government, Tea Party, Technology, Terrorism, Terrorists, Uncategorized, United States
Tagged 2016 Presidential Candidates, Donald Trump, Law Enforcement, police, Republicans, Terrorism
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Google versus GO – it’s enough to commit seppuku
By ann summers Like John Nash’s humiliation in A Beautiful Mind, it may be the case that like Mishima’s loss to Kawabata for the Nobel Prize, our lives may be determined by more banal activities. In Nash’s case it’s a … Continue reading
Posted in California, information Technology, Internet, Japan, Media, Movies, New Jersey, Science, Society, South Korea, Sports, Sports, Technology, Television, Uncategorized, United States
Tagged board games, computers, games, GO, google, nobel prize
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College continues to suffer the RWNJ objections to ‘anti-American’ campuses due to a ‘disbelief that liberalism still survives.’
By ann summers There are cyclical media stories over decades about business and medical graduate school programs wanting student recruits who have had a liberal education. The problem represents a continuing crisis of retraining and adapting higher education to not simply the needs … Continue reading
Posted in Art, Conservatives, Dept. of Education, Education, Education Policy, History, information Technology, Internet, Liberals, Libertarians, Logic, Media, Music, Neoconservatives, Neoliberals, Philosophy, Progressives, Renaissance, States, Technology, Uncategorized, United States
Tagged Higher Education, liberal arts
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Tennessee Sheriff proves beyond all shadow of doubt that Beyoncé is a stochastic terrorist
By ann summers Another minor public official in Tennessee has decided to support the Bundystani Soverign Citizen wardlordism using county sheriffs as the dupes of anti-government libertarianism. Now the false equivalence of RWNJ sovereignty protests applies where not only is … Continue reading
Posted in Civil Liberties, Conservatives, Constitutional Law, Democracy, DHS, Equal Rights, Fascism, Fascists/Corporatists, Free Speech, Government, information Technology, Internet, Justice, Law Enforcement, Liberals, Libertarians, Local Government, Logic, Media, Murder, Music, Nazis/Nazism, Neoconservatives, North Carolina, Progressives, Propaganda, Rock and Roll, Short Video, State Government, Tea Party, Television, Tennessee, Terrorism, Terrorists, Treason, Uncategorized, United States
Tagged Guns, Law Enforcement, Officer Involved Shootings, police, Republicans, Terrorism
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“like Slavery, only with extra steps…”
a full array of Chocolate Weapons that will let you satisfy your sweet tooth, with a tastefully tactical appearance except when you want to get past airport security By ann summers Ice cream can taste like so much Death … Continue reading
Posted in Animation, Art, Astronomy/Astrophysics, Capitalism, Communism, Cosmology, Economic Policy, Energy Policy, Humor, information Technology, Internet, Media, Nanotechnology, Philosophy, Physics, Political Science, Politics, Progressives, Quantum Mechanics, Science, Socialism, Sociology, Technology, Television, Uncategorized
Tagged cartoon network, Culture, Media
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Are we having terror yet? Naturalizing the Cultural and Culturalizing the Natural
by ann summers “They have weapons. F*ck them. We have champagne!” (Charlie Hebdo’s response to recent Paris attacks) #Daesh bullshit www.motherjones.com/… Terrorism is natural in the sense that … Continue reading
Posted in 9-11, Art, Big Oil, Breaking News, Countries, Democracy, Economic Policy, Economics, environment, European Union, Foreign Policy, France, Free Speech, Fundamentalism, Graphic Arts, History, Immigrants, Immigration, information Technology, Internet, Investing, Islam, Law Enforcement, Media, Murder, Neoliberals, Political Science, Politics, Propaganda, Religion, Silicon Valley, Socialism, Stock Market, Technology, Terrorism, Terrorists, Wall Street
Tagged Climate Change, Terrorism
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Facebook’s homeless Neoliberalism rather than the homeland for Neo of the Matrix
Work has become a means to stay alive rather than life being an opportunity to do work. Living, mere existence, has always been a necessary pre-condition for engaging in productive activity, but in capitalism it becomes the operative motive. By … Continue reading
not such a good idea: HBCU of Phoenix
By ann summers Some historically black colleges and universities (HBCU) are public institutions who are being encouraged to subcontract curriculum to the for-profit University of Phoenix. At a moment when the discourse is about making public education more affordable or … Continue reading
Posted in Arizona, Education, information Technology, Internet, Media, Technology, United States
Tagged Privatization of Public Education
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Kevin Bollaert, Creator of a “Revenge Porn” Website, Sentenced to 18 Years in Prison
By Elaine Magliaro Last Friday, Kamala D. Harris, California’s Attorney General, announced that Kevin Christopher Bollaert, “the operator of a cyber-exploitation website which posted nude photos of individuals with personal identifying information without their consent, was sentenced to 18 years in … Continue reading
Posted in Courts, Crime, Internet, Law Enforcement, Media, Short Video, United States, Weird Crime
Tagged California, Extortion, Identity Theft, Kevin Bollaert, Revenge Porn Website
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