Except for the ones that flick through my brain and disappear in one of the empty cells somewhere deep in my brain that holds memory, or maybe it’s just erased somehow. Or…. “Memories are maintained by chemical signalling between brain… Read More ›
Philosophy
Don’t Be Fooled: Koch Push For Justice Reform Is Plot To Protect Corporate Criminals
The bill will mainly protect corporations who are polluting our water, land, and air quality.
Why Climate Scientists Receive Death Threats
by Tim Radford, Climate New Network If you don’t like the message on climate change, it seems that the answer is to shoot the messenger. According to a new book by veteran environmentalist George Marshall, thousands of abusive emails—including demands… Read More ›
Anonymous Seized The Klan’s Main Twitter Account This Morning
By skywriter and wouldn’t let go until a short time ago. Anonymous had been in control of the Klan’s main Twitter account @KuKluxKlanUSA since 9 this morning, posting its own pictures on the racists’ account and using the hashtags, #OpKKK #Ferguson… Read More ›
Yes, the Republican Obamacare Strategy Will Kill People
By Jonathan Chait There is a famous thought experiment called the trolley problem, and it goes like this: A runaway trolley is headed toward five people bound on the tracks. You are standing before the switch that could divert it… Read More ›
The Criminalization of Everyday Life
Not the police, mind you, but the campus cops at Ohio State University now possess an MRAP; that is, a $500,000, 18-ton, mine-resistant, ambush-protected armored vehicle of a sort used in the war in Afghanistan and, as Hunter Stuart of the… Read More ›
Noam Chomsky: The Kind of Anarchism I Believe in, and What’s Wrong with Libertarians
I’ve always been baffled about the misconceptions surrounding the word “anarchism”. I visualize everything into a story (storyartist), and on the word anarchism I picture rich white men like William Randolph Hearst sitting around a carved rich-wood table scheming how… Read More ›
Kansas’ Ruinous Tax Cuts
By the Editors of The New York Times There was a windstorm of hasty excuses in recent weeks after Kansas reported that it took in $338 million less than expected in the 2014 fiscal year and would have to dip… Read More ›
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