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  • Laws Sovereignty


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    Justin Richland, University of Chicago, is publishing Jurisdiction: Grounding Law in Language in the Annual Review of Anthropology. Here is the abstract. Jurisdiction, a concept often demarcating law’s territorial scope, and thus the bounds of state sovereignty, is offered here as a theory of legal language and ...
    4 days ago

  • Positively the LAST "Stupid Conservative Signs."


    Criminalize Conservatism — Authority Authority: 138
    And this time we mean it!  After todays collection of "Stupid Conservative Signs," although the number of these pitiful atttempts at political discourse on the net number in the hundreds, our poor brains have reached the limits of endurance and we promise this will be the LAST in the series. And here we go: ...
    4 days ago

  • Obamas message: Nobody cares... no time for excuses...


    Althouse — Authority Authority: 718
    Obama was addressing the graduates at Morehouse College, which is an all-male and historically black college. Obama said that too many young black men make “bad choices.” “Growing up, I made quite a few myself,” Obama said. “Sometimes I wrote off my own failings as just another example of the world ...
    5 days ago

  • Pope Francis urges global leaders to end tyranny of money


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    Pope Francis has attacked the “dictatorship” of the global financial system and warned that the “cult of money” was making life a misery for millions. Pope Francis has called on world leaders to put an end to the "cult of money" Photo: REUTERS By Nick Squires , Rome 3:25PM BST 16 May ...
    5 days ago

  • VIDEO: Propaganda: Art or political rhetoric?


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    Governments have long used newspapers, posters and leaflets to try and influence what people think, but a new exhibition is showing that there could be much more to it. BBC News – Entertainment and Arts Latest News Today - News Right Now
    5 days ago

  • VIDEO: Propaganda: Art or political rhetoric?


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    Governments have long used newspapers, posters and leaflets to try and influence what people think, but a new exhibition is showing that there could be much more to it. BBC News – UK
    5 days ago

  • Words, words — what’s a bunch of Wordsworth?


    zenpundit.com — Authority Authority: 142
    [ by Charles Cameron -- bemused again, "jihad" (the word) in the news, "big data" too, plus Google expecting Mahdi ] . I suppose I should be glad — or should I? — that the word jihad is now in the news. It’s about time. Jihad (the word, the concept, the interpretations) should have been in the ...
    5 days ago

  • Stupid Conservative Signs, Finale


    Criminalize Conservatism — Authority Authority: 138
    The last of our series on "Stupid Conservative Signs," unless they are called out on a new demonstration...Again with many tips of the hat to Moronswithsigns.blogspot.com and the Facebook version ( https://www.facebook.com/MoronsWithSigns?fref=ts ), we begin with one of our favorites, not the usual example of bad ...
    5 days ago

  • Why Can’t Millennials Find Jobs?


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    Half of hiring managers say wearing attire ill-suited for an interview was one of the biggest mistakes they saw. Others include lack of eye contact (33%), checking phone or texting (30%), fidgeting (26%) and bad posture (22%). Other interview horror stories? Nearly half of hiring managers (44%) said showing up late or ...
    6 days ago

  • On eating one’s enemy


    zenpundit.com — Authority Authority: 142
    [ by Charles Cameron -- not good branding, not Islamic, dumbstruck? -- not a whole lot else to say ] . Commander Abu Sakkar / the Farouq Brigades logo Let’s take the bald facts first: Commander Abu Sakkar of the Farouq Brigades, Free Syrian Army, had himself videotaped this month cutting open and seeming ...
    6 days ago

  • How to Disagree with a Blog Post


    Thinking Out Loud — Authority Authority: 480
    So we’re still getting great numbers of page views at James MacDonald Preaches on Finances on Easter Sunday , and not a small number of comments, especially for this blog.  Some of you haven’t been back there since it appeared, but I later added an update to clarify some of the comments I got both on and off the ...
    1 week ago

  • How Much Tolerance for Intolerance?


    Algemeiner — Authority Authority: 593
    United Nations in Geneva. Photo: wiki commons. Tolerance is justifiably one of liberal Democracy’s most cherished values. But what do we do when tolerance, with its openness to multiple views, permits and even supports intolerance? This is particularly an issue today when open prejudice against Jews and Israel, ...
    1 week ago

  • Ben trovato


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    Ben trovato: Never let the truth spoil a good story BEN TROVATO Adjectival phrase. Late 19th century. [Italian, literally well found.] Of a story etc.: happily invented; appropriate though untrue. I went to school with a chap named Ben Trovato who was either an exceptionally high achiever or, in a ...
    1 week ago

  • "I kid you not: The IRS just released a statement on its improper harassment of conservative groups in the run-up to the 2012 election including the words: mistakes were made."


    Althouse — Authority Authority: 718
    Says Instapundit , under the heading "It just gets worse." I see that "Mistakes were made" has its own Wikipedia page : The New York Times has called the phrase a "classic Washington linguistic construct." Political consultant William Schneider suggested that this usage be referred to as the "past exonerative" ...
    2 weeks ago

  • PHD Comics: It’s in the syllabus


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      PHD Comics: It’s in the syllabus .
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  • Making Infrastructure Visible


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  • And If Your Head Explodes With Dark Forebodings Too


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    Just published on the Postcolonial Digital Humanities ( DHPoco ) website: “ ‘And If Your Head Explodes With Dark Forebodings Too’: The Dark Side of the Digital (Conference Review).” Mark Perry’s article in the Chronicle makes the conference sound too much like a set of grousing sessions on familiar ...
    2 weeks ago

  • Questioning conventional wisdom


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    I recommend this fascinating interview with Harvard development economist Dani Rodrik. In his own words, he is someone who has worked from within the economic mainstream (especially where methods are concerned) but has not been afraid to accept logical conclusions that go against conventional wisdom, which is often ...
    2 weeks ago

  • Path-ing Reflection #1


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    Sources Read:   Faigley, Lester. "Material Literacy and Visual Design." Rhetorical Bodies . 1999. 171-201. Olson, David R. "From Utterance to Text: The Bias of Language in Speech and Writing. " Harvard Educational Review 47.3 (1977): 257-81. Trimbur, John. "Delivering the Message: Typography and ...
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  • Robert Jensen : The Universe Is an Undifferentiated Whole


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    In his new "primer on critical thinking," Arguing for Our Lives, Robert Jensen "connects abstract ideas with the everyday political and spiritual struggles of ordinary people."Arguing for our lives: The universe is an undifferentiated wholeThe knowledge we humans can acquire -- while impressive in what it allows us to ...
    2 weeks ago

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