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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 […]
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: […]
American Capitalist Culture, the Mediocrity of Ayn Rand, How Labor Creates Value, and Other Topics
August 17, 2012
by Frank W. Strauch …and, yes, then there’s Ayn Rand. One of the many pities about this bizarre country called the United States of America is that, somehow, people think you’re doing something “intellectually” profound by reading Ayn Rand. If you want to come off as “educated” why not try reading — I don’t know […]
Occupy Tulsa Revisited, a follow-up on the Contradiction between Left and Right
March 25, 2012
by Lawrence McMahon My previous article, called “Occupy Tulsa and the Contradiction of Left and Right”, contained a blatant factual error concerning the workings of magnetism. My mistake. Opposite poles attract — rather than repel — one another. The principle of the dialectical unity of opposites still holds, however. The antagonism between two repellant magnets […]
Hungry Hungry Hippos: A metaphor for capitalism
March 10, 2012
by Justin Hayden If I were into conspiracy theories, I’d say the Milton Bradley Company is a propagandistic arm of the capitalist machine that has, for decades, been utilizing games as a means to mold the minds of our youth. Milton Bradley himself had an interest in kindergarten education and, according to the wisdom of […]
Inside the Mind of the Fast Food Proprietor: An Exploration of Small Business
June 5, 2011
by Lawrence McMahon Allow me to share a personal anecdote. A few weeks ago, I was at the airport in Detroit. I just so happened to overhear a conversion between two local businessmen, one of whom owned a few McDonald’s franchises in the city. The two gentlemen spent the better part of a half hour […]
The New Middle Passage, and the Aristocracy of Citizenship: On Immigration
May 18, 2011
by Lawrence McMahon One of today’s headlines: “513 people found in 2 trucks headed to U.S.” Advanced x-ray technology allowed Mexican authorities in the southern state of Chiapas to detect and stop two truckloads of illegal immigrants headed toward the U.S. The image released, intended to showcase the high-tech savvy behind this “great victory” of […]
May 1, 2013
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