Showing posts with label philosophy. Show all posts
Showing posts with label philosophy. Show all posts
Tuesday, October 16, 2018

The intersection of the movement and representation

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When we took that oath and received our ticket to play we obligated ourselves to do everything within our power to represent our clients...
Saturday, June 9, 2018

Goodbye, Anthony

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Reading about the death of Anthony Bourdain yesterday made me sad. I remember when his show No Reservations  came out. It was a fascinatin...
Wednesday, January 31, 2018

More on the language we use

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Had a couple of interesting twitter exchanges this weekend with a couple of acquaintances that got me to thinking a bit. The first had to ...
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Monday, February 6, 2017

The bankruptcy of ideas

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President Trump's nominee to the Supreme Court, Neil Gorsuch is a real throwback. Really a throwback. He is a self-described "ori...
Friday, September 23, 2016

Could you be a bit more polite, please?

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How come after the murder of an unarmed black man by the police the first thing folks want to do is caution (mostly black) protesters to be ...
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Monday, December 24, 2012

On ritual, superstition and subjugation

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While most of us are preparing to participate in the pagan celebration of the winter solstice, I had a couple of questions for the superstit...
Tuesday, August 21, 2012

Pussy Riot and the decline of empire

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Two years in prison for performing an anti-government song in a church. Two years in prison for insulting the official religion. Two years i...
Friday, March 16, 2012

Book review: The End of War - how waging peace can save humanity, our planet and our future

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Paul K. Chappell's latest book, The End of War, isn't on the newly released list - but I just found out about it a couple of weeks ...
Saturday, January 7, 2012

Words to live by

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I caught this on Moonshiners  the other night. Jesse, the Virginia ABC agent was driving around talking about the moonshiner that got away.....
Friday, November 25, 2011

Fighting authority

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'nuff said.
Sunday, August 14, 2011

Just because you sit in a garage, it doesn't mean you're a car

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Rigid adherence to protocol should never be mistaken for intellectual rigor. Of course not only do we tend to equate the two, we actually ...
Friday, August 5, 2011

Update: Dr. Big Brother?

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As a follow up to a piece I wrote in May about a ballot initiative in San Francisco that would impose fines on doctors who performed circum...
Tuesday, June 21, 2011

The nanny state and the goldfish

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First they set their sights on Happy Meals . Next up was circumcision . Now the city of San Francisco has decided that goldfish are a bligh...
Monday, June 20, 2011

The slow drip of tyranny

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I came across the following message on one of the listservs I frequent the other day: When did we as a society decide it was ok for the gov...
Saturday, June 11, 2011

The politics of exclusion

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"Lord, I know that I always said that I'd never involve you in a baseball game. It always seemed silly. I mean, You got enough to d...
Monday, May 30, 2011

All the king's horses...

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vic·tim    noun   \ ˈ vik-təm\ 1  :  a living being sacrificed to a deity or in the performance of a religious rite 2  :  one that is acted...
Thursday, May 19, 2011

Dr. Big Brother?

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San Francisco is  was known as the home of free love and doing your own thing. 'Frisco was the center of the alternative counter-culture...
Wednesday, April 27, 2011

Seeking link exchanges

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I recently received the following e-mail (no link love, though)... Paul, I recently emailed you about exchanging links on your blogroll. I...
Sunday, April 24, 2011

Death of a revolutionary

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The other day Norm Pattis wrote a blawg post asking who Jesus and Socrates were . I would answer that Jesus was a revolutionary who was kill...
Friday, March 18, 2011

Artificial reality

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Artificial turf in front of the Harris County Civil Courthouse. What a perfect metaphor for what happens in trial. In trial an action is ...