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Pressing Ahead: Selecting Stones at Year 2
The scientific editors of Selecting Stones are all exhausted as of late. We’ve been putting in long hours as wage-laborers, and well, y’all know how that goes! So, this year on May 1, we must confess that we simply don’t have the energy at the moment to make as grandiose of a statement as we […]
The Papacy, again: More on Popes and Fascists
March 14, 2013
As a follow-up to yesterday’s commentary on the Argentine fascist who has been named the new pope, we have something else cooked up for our readers. We present, for your consideration, this collage of popes with fascist and right-wing dictators, some of whom were elected into power: From top-left, going clockwise: Leo XIII with Otto […]
A Selecting Stones Video: “Europe in the 2000s vs. Europe in the 2010s”
March 9, 2013
We probably won’t be making this a regular thing, but as an experiment the scientific editors of Selecting Stones have decided to create a video and publish it on YouTube. The title of our video is “Europe in the 2000s vs. Europe in the 2010s” and its topic is exactly that: an audiovisual comparison between […]
God Is Law and Shirley Phelps-Roper Is His Lawyer
February 26, 2013
The materialist Ludwig Feuerbach explains it best in The Essence of Christianity: “Religion is the dream of the human mind. But even in dreams we do not find ourselves in emptiness or in heaven, but on earth, in the realm of reality.” Anathema Maranatha! We should only like to add that in this realm of […]
Selecting Stones implements new Threat Advisory System for Juan Cole Watch
February 10, 2013
As of Sunday, February 10, 2013, the ongoing Juan Cole Watch on Selecting Stones will implement a new Threat Advisory System. We will be constantly monitoring the activities of Prof. Cole in order to warn the public of new threats. In particular, the Threat Advisory System will alert unsuspecting readers to the current danger posed […]
Juan Cole Watch: What does Juan Cole’s secret Love Affair with the CIA say about Academia?
January 27, 2013
Middle East Studies professor Juan Cole fancies himself something of a superstar among academic armchair-leftists, thanks in no small part to his mindless and puerile blog Informed Comment, which is apparently quite popular among other academic armchair-leftists. What are the “left-wing” credentials of somebody like Juan Cole, though? It remains something of a question. After […]
Things That Are Caesar’s
January 26, 2013
In the first installment of The 9/11 Necromancy, the question was raised: how exactly did the attacks of September 11, 2001 manage to catch a nation of 280 million patriots entirely by surprise? Was the United States of America still the country of the future or had the time to repay the debts of the […]
Getting to know Selecting Stones: A Basic FAQ
January 10, 2013
Q: Will capitalism survive the next storm or is this truly the end of the world? A: It depends on the proletariat. The interests of capital and wage labor are diametrically opposed to one another. But technically speaking, the end of capitalism does not necessarily have to mean that the world is coming to an […]
Selecting Stones proposes “God Hates Sam Brownback Act” bill to Kansas Legislature
January 8, 2013
Committee: Appropriations Principal Author: Phil Ingram Title of Bill: God Hates Sam Brownback Act BE IT ENACTED BY THE GOVERNMENT OF THE STATE OF KANSAS Preamble: Whereas the state of Kansas owes a total state debt of $29.5 billion, and is currently operating during FY2013 on an annual budget of $13.41 billion, which includes $2 […]
2013: The Year of Work!
January 6, 2013
The scientific editors of Selecting Stones have elected to nominate 2013 as the Year of Work. That means we’re going to be doing more Work than ever! And that says a lot, because we already do so much Work. We have already released an except from the upcoming book Yes We Cannibalism. Within this year, […]
Excerpt from an upcoming book: YES WE CANNIBALISM
January 1, 2013
Selecting Stones welcomes the year 2013 with an excerpt from an upcoming book, Yes We Cannibalism: America’s New Era of Refined Illusions. Yes We Cannibalism America’s New Era of Refined Illusions by Phil Ingram Part One: The 9/11 Necromancy and the World-Historical Spirit of Napoleon Bonaparte “In times of danger the people always fled to […]
Chart: What Happened to Dead Prez?
December 6, 2012
We present to the readers of Selecting Stones this chart so that they might learn something about Dead Prez. It concisely explains the famous hip hop duo’s path of scientific progress, which has subsequently been replaced by a monstrous trend of ideological decay.
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 […]
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 […]
Encyclopaedia of the Bourgeoisie: Evolutionary Biology
February 11, 2012
Evolutionary Biology Evolutionary biology, when approached objectively, from the universal standpoint of the proletariat, is among the most valuable of the natural sciences. However, in the hands of the bourgeoisie, evolutionary biology is often deformed into a body of pseudoscientific theories with overtly racist undertones. For example, some psychologists explain today’s human behavior based on […]
Encyclopaedia of the Bourgeoisie: G. W. F. Hegel
February 4, 2012
Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich G. W. F. Hegel is the most important bourgeois philosopher, and the central figure of German Idealism, who overcame Kant’s subjective idealism and dissolved his antinomies. He lived from 1770 to 1831, a period of bourgeois revolution on a world scale. Hegel developed the fullest form of dialectical method possible within […]
Real Lives of Graduate Students: Jacob Ide
January 6, 2012
And we’re back! Real Lives of Graduate Students continues with a response to our questionnaire by a philosophy student named Jacob. Enjoy our third installment of this series, and keep checking back to learn more about the real lives of graduate students! Name? Jacob Ide Age? 29 Occupation? Graduate Teaching Assistant Why graduate school, as […]
Juan Cole Watch: Does Prof. Cole secretly insist that the Middle East is still in the Middle Ages?
January 2, 2012
If Juan Cole doesn’t think that the Middle East is stuck in the Middle Ages, then why does he always refer to the lands of “Islamdom”? The term comes up with striking frequency on Prof. Cole’s blog Informed Comment™. In writings on European history, it is always 100% clear that “Christendom” means feudal Europe. It […]
Real Lives of Graduate Students: Mike Rieger
December 26, 2011
We continue our Selecting Stones feature series “Real Lives of Graduate Students” with a look into the world of a scientist named Mike Rieger. Enjoy! Name? Mike Rieger Age? 29 Occupation? Scientist. Why graduate school, as opposed to something else? I would like to be a research scientist. There isn’t really a “license” for that, […]
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