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 […]
January 11, 2013
On January 8, 2013, the scientific editors of Selecting Stones proposed the “God Hates Sam Brownback Act” bill to the Kansas legislature. As you can see in the copy of the legislation that we posted at that time here on this blog, we specifically demanded the following from the governor in section 3 of our […]
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 […]
October 16, 2012
by Jesús Salvatore Reporting from Topeka, Kansas In The Gay Science, Friedrich Nietzsche claimed in truly Germanic spirit that God was dead and that it was humanity who killed him. It was a provocative statement in an age of Victorian comforts, when bourgeois society was no longer a rising force of historical development as such, […]
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 […]
January 28, 2012
Bourgeois Debts, Doubts Spell More Darkness on the World-Historical Horizon by Anthony Burton The fat-headed Winston Churchill once famously remarked that democracy is the worst form of government except for all the others that have been attempted. The irony of this statement, of course, is that Churchill – whose failures in colonial administration had produced […]
December 19, 2011
by Eduardo Dijo It’s another typically overcast, wintry day here in Topeka, Kansas, a city lost in the fog of reactionary ideas hanging heavily in the air. If American citizens wish to fathom the depth of the “Government” into which they have fallen, they have only to ask themselves: Who are they that flock ‘round […]
December 5, 2011
by Anthony Burton Reporting from Kansas City, MO: In his tremendously superficial and treasonous little book, What’s the Matter with Kansas?, the inane Mr. Thomas Frank, a local man of letters, and a person of great privilege and noble distinction in these parts, openly struggles to settle accounts with the endless embarrassments of growing up […]
November 7, 2011
by Anthony Burton It is the most ancient and essential premise of patriarchy, according to the leading school of thought on the subject, that the first kings were fathers of families, from which it somehow follows that the first cause of the fall of Adam, or the original sin, was the desire for liberty. Not […]
February 15, 2013
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