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novapsycheBoise State star marries, prays to end prejudice: Broncos running back received threats before interracial ceremony -- Look at that picture. The first time I did, I did a double take. Then I smiled.
District of Columbia to Pay $1 Million to Protesters -- Remember the feel of nationalism in 2002? Remember free-speech zones?
Lott: Get Out of D.C. While You Still Can
Workplace anger viewed differently by gender: Study: Antagonistic men admired, while women seen 'out of control'
The Matrix of Autism -- (thanks,![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
dsgood)
European heat waves double in length since 1880 (thanks again,dsgood)
UI Spatial Cognition Research Explains Explorers' Limited Ability To Navigate (What can I say?dsgood is a fount of information.)
While reading up on the rush to amend FISA, I came across information about Turnip Day, which led me to the very disparate careers of Arthur Vanderburg and Robert Taft. Sure enough, Taft was related to President Taft and apparently idolized Herbert Hoover. Reading further, I found that he was partly responsible for the Taft-Hartley Act, which still affects US workers today. My knowledge of 1940s America has been quite broadened tonight (I've also read the first few chapters of The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat).
I also learned about Murray Rothbard, and for a moment, I was concerned that I could see how one could advocate for his economic point of view. Then I remembered that I hold a fundament that he does not share: not even the body is owned, that one is merely a caretaker, a passer-through; thus, property is an abstraction. As a nomadic people featured on cable recently demonstrated, there is no need for possessions if one is always on the move--there is no need to collect things; in fact, they are often a burden. As a nomad, one would have no need to desire, that is, to consume, to be a consumer. Trade would exist, because items can be carried to and fro, exchanged for an immediate need. But money, an abstraction concretized, money, that kind of poetry? That warning? That wouldn't be necessary. Capitalism, even anarcho-capitalism, wouldn't come about. A different economy would surround the nomads, the communitarians. An economy of freedom.
District of Columbia to Pay $1 Million to Protesters -- Remember the feel of nationalism in 2002? Remember free-speech zones?
Lott: Get Out of D.C. While You Still Can
Workplace anger viewed differently by gender: Study: Antagonistic men admired, while women seen 'out of control'
The Matrix of Autism -- (thanks,
dsgood)European heat waves double in length since 1880 (thanks again,
dsgood)UI Spatial Cognition Research Explains Explorers' Limited Ability To Navigate (What can I say?
dsgood is a fount of information.)While reading up on the rush to amend FISA, I came across information about Turnip Day, which led me to the very disparate careers of Arthur Vanderburg and Robert Taft. Sure enough, Taft was related to President Taft and apparently idolized Herbert Hoover. Reading further, I found that he was partly responsible for the Taft-Hartley Act, which still affects US workers today. My knowledge of 1940s America has been quite broadened tonight (I've also read the first few chapters of The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat).
I also learned about Murray Rothbard, and for a moment, I was concerned that I could see how one could advocate for his economic point of view. Then I remembered that I hold a fundament that he does not share: not even the body is owned, that one is merely a caretaker, a passer-through; thus, property is an abstraction. As a nomadic people featured on cable recently demonstrated, there is no need for possessions if one is always on the move--there is no need to collect things; in fact, they are often a burden. As a nomad, one would have no need to desire, that is, to consume, to be a consumer. Trade would exist, because items can be carried to and fro, exchanged for an immediate need. But money, an abstraction concretized, money, that kind of poetry? That warning? That wouldn't be necessary. Capitalism, even anarcho-capitalism, wouldn't come about. A different economy would surround the nomads, the communitarians. An economy of freedom.