Category Archives: World History

John Barron-Miller: Harbinger of a V for Vendetta Business Plot

Posted on May 22, 2016 by ann li-summers

Thomas Cole (1801–1848) Destruction from The Course of Empire. 1836 painting  39 ½ x 63 ½ in (100.33 x 161.29 cm) New-York Historical Society   By ann summers November 8, 2016 could signal the end of the Republic when the American … Continue reading →

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Morning Open Thread – Flying over evil with a drone

Posted on April 23, 2016 by Chuck Stanley

Morning Open Thread is an open discussion forum for human interest news of the day. The growing hobby of quadricopters, when mixed with high definition video cameras, has opened doors to places, people and things we could only imagine before. … Continue reading →

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Reclaiming the possibility of democracy or creating libertarianism warlordism

Posted on April 18, 2016 by ann li-summers

Sophie’s Hobson Choice on Maggies Bullet Farm: George Miller’s nearly aboriginal-free post-apocalypse vision or JJ Abrams’ non-LGBTQ utopian dystopia -— What a lovely day for Star War’s POC clone diversity already signalled   What remains certain is that Reconstruction failed, and … Continue reading →

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‘Don’t Do Stupid Sh*t’ is not the Obama Doctrine because there is one

Posted on March 14, 2016 by ann li-summers

By ann summers   An important date in my lifetime was not an August 30 when I decided to blog regularly, but the red line moment for the Obama decision not to bomb the shit out of Syria over the use … Continue reading →

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Slow Food is not a fast answer

Posted on March 7, 2016 by ann li-summers

By ann summers The need for better tools to analyze capitalism makes it important to look at the larger systemic pathologies that have brought us to a place where we tend to think less of Bread and Puppets and more … Continue reading →

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College continues to suffer the RWNJ objections to ‘anti-American’ campuses due to a ‘disbelief that liberalism still survives.’

Posted on February 23, 2016 by ann li-summers

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 →

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Word Cloud: AFRICA

Posted on January 29, 2016 by wordcloud9

by NONA BLYTH CLOUD One of the things that shocked me during my long-ago-summer-back-packing-through-Europe was the vast difference in scale between Europe and the United States. Greece, the “Birthplace of Western Civilization,” is about the size of Louisiana. Italy, wellspring … Continue reading →

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After week III, another two months of Bundystani insurgency, now with moronic extra-Constitutionality

Posted on January 24, 2016 by ann li-summers

By ann summers Evoking New York language values, Slate magazine has now labeled the East Oregon Bundystani as Jamokes trying to enforce Shania(sic) Law in an incursion by outsiders. We may not understand public land laws, but we understand how to … Continue reading →

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What the Global War on Terrorism(sic) National Monument should embody

Posted on December 21, 2015 by ann li-summers

 By ann summers I wrote a very early story a couple of years ago on trying to think about a virtual or actual monument to this war and thought that even though we have ceased(sic) combat operations, that a national monument … Continue reading →

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Word Cloud: SOLITARY

Posted on December 18, 2015 by wordcloud9

by Nona Blyth Cloud . Stanza If they snatch my ink and pen,  I should not complain,  For I have dipped my fingers In the blood of my heart. I should not complain Even if they seal my tongue,  For … Continue reading →

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