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Part Two of the Dialectic of Homelessness
September 28, 2012
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 such as sitting, lying down, and sleeping that homeless individuals have no choice but to perform in public spaces? Personal note: A few weeks […]
Juan Cole Watch: Why is Prof. Cole so concerned about Jesus’ wife?
September 26, 2012
Last week, when the story came out about an interesting papyrus containing an ancient Coptic text mentioning Jesus’ wife, Prof. Juan Cole of the University of Michigan, naturally, felt the need to chime in on the topic via his lackluster blog, Informed Comment. The post, entitled “The Gospel of Jesus’ Wife and Sacred History from […]
A Few Notes on Romney and Obama, and a Brief Explanation of all this 53% vs. 47% Nonsense
September 23, 2012
by Bruno Fournier Romney was caught on tape confessing his belief that 47% of the citizens of a State atavistically still called the United States of America are entirely dependent upon that State and will therefore, for some reason, not vote for him. Obama, in response, made a big hoopla by claiming that his presidency […]
All Guns Pointed at Mitt Romney – The Con Man Cometh
September 20, 2012
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 distraction from real news has been endlessly recirculating this week within the reactionary media outlets in response to an offensive slew of […]
Google Incorporated Destroys Reason
September 19, 2012
by Phil Ingram Mythology by definition overcomes and shapes the forces of nature in the imagination and by the imagination until unconsciously it becomes a dominating arsenal and foundation of art. As we discovered yet again last week with the viral popularity of “The Innocence of Muslims” film on YouTube, the naively childish vision of […]
Ruthless Communism Is Necessary
September 15, 2012
by Phil Ingram “Only a Hector can have a premonition that he will fall by the hand of an Achilles.” Coercive measures taken by society in individual cases are often hard and brutally materialistic, but as scientific editors of Selecting Stones, our hatred and contempt for life under capitalism has always proven to be more […]
The Soviet Approach to Religion
September 14, 2012
Under the Soviet constitution, you were free to believe whatever crazy nonsense you wanted to, but the moment you tried to make somebody else believe in your nonsense, you had crossed the line. You were impinging upon the rights of others to be free of superstition. We could learn a great deal from their approach […]
Religion is Poison that Attacks the Nervous System
September 13, 2012
by Frank W. Strauch Some stupid Christian fundamentalists from that bastion of reactionary ideology known as SoCal have created a crappy YouTube video. It features some guy who looks like an even dorkier version of Owen Wilson supposedly playing the role of the historical figure Muhammad, who is therein portrayed with a bunch of negative […]
Obituary for the Bourgeois Intellectual
September 12, 2012
Dear M-1 and stic.man, How is it that personal interests always develop, against the will of the individuals, into class interests, into common interests which acquire independent existence in relation to the individual persons, and in their independence assume the form of general interests? How is it that as such they come into contradiction with […]
Chicago Public School Teachers are On Strike: What Does It All Mean?
September 10, 2012
by Frank W. Strauch Today, teachers from Chicago Public Schools went on strike after not reaching a deal for a new contract. Predictably, media coverage is, one way or another, stacked against the teachers, whether it be from an openly anti-labor position, or from a liberal, moralistic position which blames the strikers for “hurting the […]
Are You Still Not Sure What You Stand For? Here’s my number, so call me, maybe
September 5, 2012
by Frank W. Strauch A string of unexpected circumstances in my personal life as of the last week has led me to listen to hours upon hours of Top 40 radio over the past few days. Though what they say about them playing the same songs over and over again is evidently quite true, Baltimore’s […]
How Come You’re Poor?
September 1, 2012
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 almost universally agreed that society is completely fucked, i.e. that sooner or later the whole world will be Easter Island. Question 1: […]
September 30, 2012
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