The phrase "Do What Thou Wilt" originates in the Hellfire Clubs of England and Ireland in the 18th century, and was later adopted by Aleister Crowley as the central credo of his religion Thelema ( Read more... )

Mérida, August 27th 2009 (Venezuelanalysis.com) -- U.S. author, dissident intellectual, and Professor of Linguistics at the Massachussetts Institute of Technology Noam Chomsky met for the first time with Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez in Caracas and analyzed hemispheric politics during a nationally televised forum on Monday ( Read more... )

Caitlin: how i remember it is I'd literally get to your house, walk in your room, be tired and cold, immediately get into bed, and you'd start running around half naked, or in tattered clothing, flipping things around and ranting

Dear Kevin,

Excellent. I have only given A+ three times in the 15 years I have been teaching because it is rare that a paper couldn't be improved in some way. I can't think of any way to improve this paper, so I'm up to four. Well Done!

Would you send me an electronic copy of this paper? I'd like to have it on file.

Grade: A+ (100)This from one ( Read more... )

In the world of theory it's easy to decry capitalism, to split social class into the haves and have-nots and create a dichotomy of the abused, repressed, exploited lower class and the cruel, manipulative and calloused upper classes. It's when you get outside the university, into real life, that all generalization blur at best, and at worst ( Read more... )

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Homeboys at home been sayin', "How's homeboy gonna make some boat outta some brains?"

http://english.aljazeera.net/news/americas/2009/07/200971023542914638.html

Newt Gingrich - The US should "use covert operations … to create a gasoline-led crisis to try and replace the regime".Uh, it might be a good idea in this case, but ( Read more... )

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This is, I think, the first time I've felt completely lost in our culture. I felt a little lost when the "I will possess Your heart" song by Death Cab for Cutie hit the airwaves, but it isn't too hard to be like "if you don't put any priority at all on creativity, I could see how this is tolerable." Or ( Read more... )

It occurred to me while watching a documentary on the spanish civil war that I never learned anything about European history, either in high school or college. It just wasn't taught. I remember that the assassination of archduke Franz Ferdinand started World War I, that both World Wars were easily broken down to good vs evil and the US was on the ( Read more... )