In These Times

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• • 28 Feb 10
  • 5:23 pm

  As usual, Ms. Allen writes a very insightful and provocative column, combining sociology with basic science. To amplify the situation, I would argue that steroids are "de rigeur," much more than jsut "common" in the NFL. At that elite multi billion dollar level, the athletes have every logical imperative to use the medical/chemical means they must take to compete, win, and stay on the field. The result is a corporate criminal conspiracy that involves all the billionaires, the doctors, the trainers, the agents, and the players. Testing is generally fiction, but it can be tweaked at various times to catch a …

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• • 28 May 08
  • 6:51 pm

  Again, In These Times, with the atheist-bashing! I did get one letter to the editor published when you went off on Dawkins, but like all the other pietists, you seem to always let the junior varsity keep up the defense of dear old Dad's religion. Hedges is a modern Parson Weems, enacting his psycho-drama of sin that he just couldn't get enough of in his chosen war zones, and now inflicts on his global flock. Whoever his father was, and maybe he was the white Martin Luther King, maybe he wasn't, the history of Christianity is one of terrible ignorance, persecution, …

  Posted to Atheism’s Unholy Trinity

• • 29 May 08
  • 9:33 pm

  Thanks for reading my missive, Marta, but the title of Hedges' book is "I Don't Believe in Atheists" - not " I Like Them Atheists." This parson has chosen to chase wars, believes Christ is his answer to whatever he witnessed, and goes on to castigate rationalists for some imagined "utopian" mindset he likens, absurdly, to whatever inhumanity he noticed along his merry way - did he earn some sainthood by choosing to take notes as genocide occurred around the globe, yet again? He does not stand for the dignity of man. He stands for petulant self-basting of ennoblement - not …

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• • 18 Aug 07
  • 6:21 am

  Excellent notes: Loury's piece was trenchant, and Brooks' book is dead-on. All of this relates to the failed state that is America - its wholesale abdication of responsibility by its elites, the headlong rush by the supersystem to advance the rights of the rich. And so what do you want to do about it - be met with derision by idiots? Issue complaints from the ivory tower? Let's be honest - the resort to drug war crime by outcastes, the insane pilfering of capital by finance traders, the feeble murmurings of the blogging cranks - they all relate only to the …

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• • 11 Apr 07
  • 11:28 am

  Shaw took a principled stand, and for that gets vilified by a site that tries to call itself "worldchanging"? "A substantial military capable of projecting force" - How about we "project force" Steffan to the front lines where he can "project force" to some more innocent civilians? Shaw is absolutely heroic and correct in what he said and did, in not going with the U.S. military's program of the day. I'm sure the Pentagon will find many, many sources for "greening up," drawn from all the easily-bought ranks of the college-"educated" graduates. Martin Seligman, former APA president and guru of "positive"psychology, …

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