April 29, 2013
by Frank W. Strauch, Ansgar Magnus, and Bruno Fournier There exists in Baltimore City a project called the Baltimore Free School. In a nutshell, the idea is to set up a non-traditional and somewhat informal school where volunteers teach courses on whatever it is that they may have special knowledge about, and anyone remotely interested […]
April 21, 2013
by Phil Ingram As the manhunt for the FBI’s most wanted criminal finally came to an end Friday evening, the free press inevitably began asking questions – not really in order to get to the bottom of things (sadly this has increasingly become the duty and responsibility of Twitter) – but to remind us that […]
March 29, 2013
A Special Investigative Report by Selecting Stones by Liangyi Chen and Phil Ingram In the general atmosphere of this prevailing reign of stupidity itself that we are now witnessing everywhere around us on a universal scale, the clouds of mysticism have once again surrounded all phenomena of art and culture with a poetic color and […]
March 23, 2013
by Jesús Salvatore After Selecting Stones officially came into being as a minor internet phenomenon two years ago in February 2011, the entire committee of scientific editors, speaking as a whole, formally announced that it would be the primary task of this blog to enable the world to clarify its own consciousness and awaken it […]
March 12, 2013
by S. M. A. A little bit of modern capitalist theology: – Is the Prince Alwaleed bin Talal richer than God? – Certainly – Is the Prince happy? – Certainly not – Why is the Prince unhappy? – Because his story got screwed up – How does a prince who is richer than God get […]
March 7, 2013
by Liangyi Chen The sovereign state of Papua New Guinea – which the United Kingdom’s Queen Elizabeth II presently claims as one of the sixteen commonwealth realms over which Her Majesty still technically reigns supreme – is a land riddled with contradictions. To this very day, old-fashioned historians of civilization still can’t resist the temptation […]
March 6, 2013
by Ansgar Magnus In periods of social degeneration, such as the one that we are presently witnessing on a universal scale under this prevailing reign of stupidity itself, all fields of material and mental activity are subjected to the capitalist division of labor in such a way that penetrates deep inside the soul of every […]
March 5, 2013
by Frank W. Strauch A brief update on today’s headlines. Hugo Chavez died of cancer this afternoon. Speculation has been running wild as to the state of the Venezuelan president’s health ever since he missed the inauguration for his fourth term on January 10. In recent days, former Panamanian ambassador to the OAS Guillermo Cochez […]
February 24, 2013
by Ansgar Magnus The Kingdom of Bhutan loves to portray itself as a happy and peaceful little slice of Buddhist heaven called Shangri La, “a special environment where communion with the divine [is] possible through contemplation and meditation.” “Since time immemorial,” the Bhutanese monarchy boasts on its website, “ascetics, mystics, scholars, philosophers, and pilgrims have […]
February 23, 2013
by Liangyi Chen Still doing his time at the federal correctional institution in Terre Haute, Indiana, the 9/11 traitor John Walker Lindh – who used to be known by his fellow Taliban fighters as Sulayman al-Faris, but now prefers the alias Abu Sulayman al-Irlandi when he’s in the company of his fellow inmates (also terrorists) […]
February 22, 2013
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 problems. What is a human being? Nothing in the world is more complex or more perplexing: “Physicists are perfectly right […]
February 18, 2013
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 before.” “During that time,” he claims, “the number of people living in extreme poverty has been reduced by half – extraordinary progress […]
February 17, 2013
A Study in Postwar Apologetics by Phil Ingram In Norman Mailer’s American war novel, The Naked and the Dead (1948), a character named General Cummings notes with satisfaction that the Yankees were able to achieve by democratically legal means a dictatorship of monopoly capitalism that was at least as firm as that which Hitler set […]
February 15, 2013
by Phil Ingram Stanley “Tookie” Williams III, the founding father of the Crips, explained it best: “The more I began to lift weights, the more I became addicted to the feeling of being bigger and stronger.” This, of course, is something to which many ordinary, hard-working folk living in the forgotten grain-producing states of the […]
February 14, 2013
by Phil Ingram In Part Two of The Dialectic of Homelessness, in which the question was raised as to whether it really deserves to be a crime for homeless people to engage in life-sustaining activities like eating and sleeping in public spaces, the scientific editors of Selecting Stones mentioned a conversation that had recently taken […]
February 14, 2013
by Phil Ingram At the beginning of the Phenomenology, Hegel remarks that by the little which satisfies the spirit, we can measure the extent of its loss. Having followed Taj Tarik Bey’s ideological development for nearly two years now, the scientific editors of Selecting Stones are convinced that there is no more poignant example of […]
May 19, 2013
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