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So, are you interested in raising the minimum wage and extending it to protect all workers, Ron? Raising the minimum…
I asked Becky (who drew this strip). Becky, who is younger than me, replied: "Who?" Then she followed up with:…
Although to my eyes panel 2 isn’t necessarily rich – he could easily be working class. Is the guy in…
Although to my eyes panel 2 isn’t necessarily rich – he could easily be working class. For some reason, my…
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Author Archives: Jack Stephens
Miss Landmine
BrownFemiPower blogs about the Miss Landmine Beauty Pagent:
Now, I’m not sure what I think about this pageant beyond the fact that I think that the name is repulsive (as I’ve said in several places, would we make a pageant called “Miss Rape Victim”? Or “Miss Car Crash”?–and what are the implications of “beautifying” the violence […] Continue reading
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Sartre’s Godless Philosophy and those of the Bourgeoisie
Lenin, of Lenin’s Tomb, blogs about Sartre and atheistic, or non-theistic, philosophy:
The trouble with the professional atheists or anti-theists these days is, apart from everything else that is bad and reductionist and ridiculous in what they write, that their apparently passionate commitment comes too cheap. It doesn’t require that they give anything up, change anything […] Continue reading
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Battling the Trappings of University Life
The Wily Filipino, a college professor in a tenure battle, gives his two cents on battling neoliberalism in the university system, he opens with:
My former employer, an urban school by reputation, has essentially abandoned its decades-long “commitment” to the working class from its immediate surroundings, and instead has concentrated on recruiting aggressively from the O.C. […] Continue reading
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Who Are the Real Thugs?
The blogger for the blog Oil Wars posts an essay on the recent university demonstrations in Venezuela:
The anti-Chavez protesters shot one of the young workers in the back three times killing him instantly. That is right, the supposedly peacefull anti-Chavez protesters, you know the ones the international press tell us go around with their hands […] Continue reading
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79th Edition of Carnival of the Godless
The 79th Carnival of the Godless is being held at the Sexy Secularist!:
Twas the month before Christmas, when – hey, what the heck?
Up go lights, decorations – all the holiday dreck!
Just this Thursday, we ate and we offered our thanks,
As next Christmas rolled in like an army of tanks.
All the stores are bedecked, all the […] Continue reading
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Turning Historical Materialism on Its Head
Marco blogs:
The brilliance of Autonomist Marxism, which began to emerge out of the revolutionary experiences in Italy in the 1960s and 1970s, was that it turned historical materialism on its head. No longer was capital ironically seen as a progressive force; as the “motor of history”. Rather, desire came to be seen as primary, and […] Continue reading
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Seems to me that we have laws already on the books to require those. Actually, we don't. https://stateline.org/2023/06/20/many-states-decline-to-require-water-breaks-for-outdoor-workers-in-extreme-heat/ And in…