http://www.democraticunderground.com http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss Sun, 22 Nov 2009 02:03:26 Sun, 22 Nov 2009 02:03:26 [div class="excerpt"] Thousands of years ago, the work that people did had been broken down into jobs that were the same everyday, in organizations where people were interchangable parts. All of the [b]story[/b] had been bled out of their lives. That was how it had to be; it was how you got a produc... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/arendt/179 Fri, 10 Oct 2008 14:08:09 I am leaving this board because, very recently, far too many of my posts are being locked by moderators who shoot first and ask questions later.

I have been at this board for over six years; I have many popular threads. But only in the last month have I had MANY posts locked for nit-picking and... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/arendt/178 Wed, 03 Sep 2008 14:01:09 [div class="excerpt"]The blatant media bias displayed by the "mainstream" news organizations is more than matched by the shameful cover-up of Georgian atrocities by the mainline "human rights" organizations, first and foremost Human Rights Watch. In the most brazen display of willful ignorance since... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/arendt/177 Sat, 16 Aug 2008 09:21:33 After eight years of Bush mis-rule, you might have thought America had had its fill of neocon military adventurism in Middle East oil fields. You might have thought it had seen through the dangerous nonsense that is the Global War on Some Terrorists - a profitable fraud for contractors, and a civil ... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/arendt/176 Fri, 15 Aug 2008 14:28:02 This is what I get for tuning out the whole Hillary/Barack food fight during the two-year long Permanent Campaign. Now that BHO has seemingly finally won, I have been asking myself: so who is the power base behind this guy? Who backed him against the Clinton machine?

It took just one Google: {oba... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/arendt/175 Thu, 14 Aug 2008 15:19:31 [div class="excerpt"]John McCain increasingly sounds like a right-wing blogger. [b]His arrogance in claiming that he speaks for the American people during a dangerous crisis[/b] demonstrates greater hubris than anything he will accuse Obama of doing.

Brent Budowsky, "John McCain on Russia: Angry,... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/arendt/174 Thu, 14 Aug 2008 11:15:27 [b]Question 1. How does one remain sane in the face of a delusional society?[/b]

By sticking to testable facts and by telling the truth about those facts, and asking others to do the same, and accepting this will make some people quite upset at you.

Here are some of the more obvious, testable ... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/arendt/173 Tue, 12 Aug 2008 18:10:27 [div class="excerpt"]Franchising refers to the method of practicing and using another person's philosophy of business. The "franchisors" authorize the proven methods and trademarks of their businesses to "franchisees" for a fee and a percentage of gross monthly sales. Various tangibles and intangibl... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/arendt/172 Mon, 11 Aug 2008 11:51:25 ...Obama's father-in-law?

[div class="excerpt"}[b]Jim Hensley[/b] and his older brother Eugene first began working in the liquor distribution business before World War II, being in the employ of Kemper Marley, Sr., an Arizona rancher who had become wealthy in the liquor distribution business in P... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/arendt/171 Wed, 06 Aug 2008 12:03:42 After 28 years of counter-revolution by the radical right, I live in a country where my basic expectation is to be lied to, cheated, and outright betrayed by businessmen, politicians, media personalities, and government officials. As a member of the non-elite 99%, my designated role is to be a vict... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/arendt/170 Tue, 05 Aug 2008 08:24:29 [div class="excerpt"] “In all dictatorships targeting the free press begins with political pressure—loud, angry, campaigns for the news to be represented in a way that supports the group that seeks dominance. Attacks escalate to smears, designed to shame members of the press personally; then editors... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/arendt/169 Thu, 31 Jul 2008 14:38:19 I heard this on Tom Ashbrook's "On Point" radio show on NPR yesterday. I would guess you can download the entire show. The most important part for me was not the horrible labor law violations or the immigration issues. It was the DELIBERATE and MASSIVE machinery put in place OUT OF PUBLIC VIEW to ta... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/arendt/168 Wed, 30 Jul 2008 08:39:18 [b]Article 1: The Unitary Executive[/b]

Section 1: The executive branch shall consist of the unitary executive (UE)

Section 2. The UE is composed of the President, the Vice-President, and various spooks, bagmen, weaseling Constitutional lawyers, and hitmen. Membership on the UE team is not for... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/arendt/167 Wed, 23 Jul 2008 15:46:04 The most common way in which flexible, responsive systems of thinking about reality become rigid, dead dogmas/ideologies is by reductionism. Christianity reduced to the Ten Commandments. Class conflict reduced to Marxism. Capitalism reduced to the Invisible Hand. Psychology reduced to behaviorism.
... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/arendt/166 Tue, 22 Jul 2008 14:56:52 I'm sure I can just snap up another middle class job at this moment in this economy. :sarcasm:

And, you can be sure that it was this economy's effect on our funding source that vaporized my job.

Someone needs to Abner Louema-ize Alan Greenspan, Ben Bernacke, and the corpse of Ken Lay. May they... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/arendt/165 Wed, 16 Jul 2008 19:54:48 Mods, this is about "wedge issue" politics. I would understand if you moved it to the gun forum, but I posted it in GD for a less biased audience.

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[div class="excerpt"]One man with a briefcase can steal more money than a hundred men with guns.

- Don Corleone... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/arendt/164 Wed, 09 Jul 2008 12:54:09 Whether or not we will be able to restore democracy to the United States will be decided well before the November election. It will be decided by whether or not the FISA/immunity bill passes. It will be decided by whether or not Cheney manages to attack Iran. It will be decided by whether or not Con... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/arendt/163 Tue, 08 Jul 2008 12:34:29 From reviews of "The Servant", a British "kitchen sink cinema" classic:

[div class="excerpt"](This is a tale) of an upper class businessman Tony (James Fox) who hires a manservant Barrett (Dirk Bogarde) to set up home for him in a Chelsea townhouse. Vaguely uneasy from the start, their relationsh... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/arendt/162 Thu, 03 Jul 2008 08:41:42 [div class="excerpt"]The very structure of American entertainment bears minstrelsy's imprint. The endless barrage of gags and puns appears in the work of the Marx Brothers and David and Jerry Zucker...The stump speech is an important precursor to modern stand-up comedy.

The 1830s American stage, ... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/arendt/161 Sun, 29 Jun 2008 16:26:04 [b]CLARIFICATION so this thread doesn't get locked: I will hold my nose and vote for this charming, intelligent, up-from-poverty candidate - who just happens to be a triangulating, corporate/military shill and a panderer to homophobe Christians - in November; but I will be damned if I will say anyth... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/arendt/160 Thu, 26 Jun 2008 00:08:10 Five and a half years ago, I essayed that our middle class was being decimated:

[div class="excerpt"]We are at war all right. It is war on the American Middle Class and the American Constitution; and it has been going on for two years already. If you haven't noticed, the middle class is losing wi... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/arendt/159 Sun, 22 Jun 2008 20:19:53 [div class="excerpt"][b]Louisiana House Passes Anti-Evolution Bill; Enactment Expected.[/b]

The Louisiana House of Representatives, by a vote of 94-3, last week passed an "academic freedom" bill that singles out evolution and other theories or fields of science and implies that they are controve... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/arendt/158 Wed, 18 Jun 2008 19:04:30 [div class="excerpt"]"Like water to fish, or air to birds, so is language to humans." - anon.[/div]

(on edit: moved the introductory history into Appendix 1 to shorten this.)

LANGUAGE IN THE CORPORATE MEDIA

The topic of this essay is language - specifically, the impoverished and biased lang... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/arendt/157 Mon, 16 Jun 2008 16:06:24 [div class="excerpt"]Crush depth is the submerged depth at which a submarine's hull will collapse due to the surrounding water pressure. - Wikipedia[/div]
We often speak of the Bush White House as being "in a bubble". At a larger scale, we talk of "inside the beltway" thinking. Both phrases are mea... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/arendt/156 Sun, 15 Jun 2008 19:43:16 This is an essay about our economic situation. There is nothing in this essay that hasn't been said before. It has been said forty years ago, in the abstract:

[div class="excerpt"]One of the most expensive things an economy can buy is economic trial, error, and development. "Expensive" of course ... http://journals.democraticunderground.com/arendt/155 Thu, 29 May 2008 21:33:15