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Democracy means that my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge

by Rod Edwards on May 28, 2010

“Anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.” — Isaac Asimov

via Reddit.

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Jesus, Jesus, Jesus

by Rod Edwards on May 27, 2010

In the late 1950s, psychologist Milton Rokeach was gripped by an eccentric plan. He gathered three psychiatric patients, each with the delusion that they were Jesus Christ, to live together for two years in Ypsilanti State Hospital to see if their beliefs would change.

Read on at Salon – “Jesus, Jesus, Jesus”. (found on Reddit)

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Paul Chambers: My tweet was silly, but the police reaction was absurd

May 12, 2010

Don’t speak your mind: the British are listening. And they will arrest you, charge you, and make a mockery of “justice” in the name of “security.” The reason for the arrest was a tweet I had posted on the social network Twitter, which was deemed to constitute a bomb threat against Robin Hood airport in [...]

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Best Selling 17 year old Author Says It’s ‘Mixing,’ Not Plagiarism

February 14, 2010

What do you think of remix culture? Is the concept of plagiarism outdated? Should it be outdated? Ms. Hegemann finds herself in the middle of a collision — if not road kill exactly — between the staid, literary establishment in a country that venerates writers from Goethe to Mann to Grass, and the Berlin youth [...]

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Natives Maintaining their Racial Purity

February 3, 2010

…by evicting non-natives from the Quebec reserve of Kahnawake. Specifically, they appear to be evicting 25 boyfriends & girlfriends of band members, who according to the community of 7,500, are a threat to their culture. 25 out of 7,500 – that’s a third of a percent – 0.33%. Question 1: Is the Mohawk culture that [...]

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