I am really enjoying going through Alfie Kohn's entire body of work today. He's such a troublemaker, even reading his stuff makes me feel like I'm giving a big fuck you to the public school system. Which is handy when I'm working in a program embedded in that system ( Read more... )

Why it might be okay to use apostrophes "wrong".

... I feel like my whole world just got turned on its head.

I hate it when people jump from "There are multiple truths" to "There is no truth". They're not equivalent. In fact, they're contradictory! Dumbasses. Use your little brains.

Poll Clones

I just decided that I want to play Marry Fuck Kill with great philosophers/writers. Socrates, Foucault and Kant: marry one, fuck one (once and only once, natch) and kill one.

And then give me three and I'll answer. And ask back.

Let's play MASH next.

I think you can't be post-postmodernist unironically.

Defining event of our generation: 9/11 or Harry Potter? Discuss.

Things I would write about if I could stay awake long enough ( Read more... )

I keep meaning to update about my class, which is awesome and I love it, but requires actually sitting down and explaining signification and enlightened false conciousness and visual metonymy and copying in the chapter titles of my textbook. One of these days I'll get around to that part ( Read more... )

Having read my three chapters of homework from Why Religion Matters by Huston Smith, I'm in a bit of a spiritual crisis. Smith's thesis is that science cannot account for the psychological need for a Big Picture and therefore religion is necessary ( Read more... )