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All are Sustained by the Sword

What is called human government is usurpation, imposture, demagoguism, peculation, swindling, and tyranny . . . Unquestionably, every existing government on earth is to be overthrown by the growth of mind and moral regeneration of the masses. Absolutism, limited monarchy, democracy — all are sustained by the sword; all are based upon the doctrine, that [ READ MORE ]

Multiple $document.ready Calls

Thank you, Karl, for clearing this up for me. When I started using Jquery, I packed all my initial processing into a single $document.ready call. I quickly noticed that this wasn’t standard. Many code snippets used a $document.ready for each logical modification to the dom. Finally, I wondered at all the instances of: $(function() { [ READ MORE ]

Also Not Shocking

The mighty Glenn Greenwald is taken aback by Wolf Blitzer’s ludicrous and antagonistic piece on the “loyalty” of Justice [sic] Dept officials. You see, these officials had represented kidnapped foreigners who have been in cages for . . . just about a decade now. Of course, questioning the state’s blatantly illegal, not to mention obviously [ READ MORE ]

Goodbye, Howard Zinn

Looking back on it now, Howard Zinn had a major impact on my radicalization.  I remember reading The 20th Century, essentially a subsection of The People’s History, on a park bench in Rutland, VT.  I recall my surprise that the progressive political agenda whose return I had hoped for during the Clinton presidency was, in fact, a [ READ MORE ]

Empathy

I bumped into this disturbing gem of mental sickness via a pandagon post.  To summarize briefly: torturing people by simulating drowning can’t be bad because swimmers immerse themselves in water and have people yelling at them, and they’re fine.  My initial thought was to provide the teeny, tiny, bit of critical thought required to dismantle [ READ MORE ]

Framework of Fear

Banking provides an archetypal example of a system held in place through fear.  I find banking especially interesting because of the amount of propaganda required to conceal its nature.  War is easy to justify with appeals to nationalism, patriotism, racism, and religion.  Stockpiling wealth by annihilating foreign populations is considered admirable by many (twisted ass-hats) [ READ MORE ]

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