Leah Dieterich’s THXTHXTHX: Thankful for Death
by Lawrence McMahon and Anthony Burton Leah Dieterich brings “thankfulness” to its lowest possible form. Naturally, therefore, she got a book deal. Her charming blog is a collection of hand-written...
View ArticleAcademia, the Self-Referential Exploiter
by Lawrence McMahon The claim of academia is that it studies the world, the real existing world, in all of its richness. In fact, however, it has no interest whatsoever in the real world. Instead, it...
View ArticleGene Marks of Forbes on, “If I Were A Poor Black Kid”
by Bruno Fournier The bourgeois press is at it again, giving the bankers and fat, balding middle managers of the world something good to feel about, as they talk amongst themselves about the...
View ArticleHow Come You’re Poor?
by Phil Ingram Many influential voices nowadays are foolishly proclaiming that the predicament of our times is that we don’t know what to revolt against in a concrete way. Actually most people are...
View ArticleAll Guns Pointed at Mitt Romney – The Con Man Cometh
by Phil Ingram We’re merely 48 days away from the next great victory of American democracy, so it comes as no surprise to the scientific editors of Selecting Stones that yet another trivializing...
View ArticlePart Two of the Dialectic of Homelessness
by Eduardo Dijo Why is it a crime to be homeless? Why do so many cities severely lacking in affordable housing and emergency shelter choose to criminalize the necessary, life-sustaining activities...
View ArticleHas Capitalism Really Come to This? – Bill Gates Declares War on Bad...
by Jesús Salvatore In his “Annual Letter” released on January 30, 2013, Bill Gates reports optimistically that “the lives of the poorest have improved more rapidly in the last 15 years than ever...
View ArticleBows and Arrows and Assault Rifles: Democratic Republic of Congo Engulfed in...
by Phil Ingram The great Alexander Spirkin, one of the Soviet Union’s most brilliant philosophers, once noted that the problem of man is an eternal and at the same time the most urgent of all...
View ArticleZero Hour Contracts at Buckingham Palace
by Patrick M. Dixon Some members of the Royal Family How do you fancy working for the Queen? You could even work at Buckingham Palace, rather than one of the royal family’s twenty-one other...
View ArticleHomelessness in America’s Wealthiest Counties: Arlington County, VA
Each year, Forbes magazine publishes its list of the United States of America’s wealthiest counties. As usual, Arlington County, Virginia — a snake’s den of America’s most God-fearing defense...
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