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The Ravine / Joseph Dunphy

The Memory Hole > The 9/11 Artwork the Public Isn't Allowed to See - 0 views

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    "Eric Fischl ... created this bronze sculpture of a woman plummeting to her death, basing it on the many people who did just that during the 9/11 attacks ... ... Immediately, members of the public began complaining about the upsetting nature of the piece, and administrators at the center quickly covered it in cloth and hid it behind a screen." Right, because we wouldn't want to make mass murder look like something horrible? Watching policy getting made to appease those who don't get the point.
The Ravine / Joseph Dunphy

Censorship on Campus? Time to Privatize America's Universities by Onkar Ghate -- Capita... - 0 views

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    So bad it's worth reading, because you're going to see this argument, again, I'm sure. The author argues that universities are, themselves, victims of censorship if they are not free to fire faculty members for expressing political viewpoints which they don't like, because they are being forced to support views they don't like. This is question begging, because it presupposes that by allowing them to stay on its payrolls, a university has allowed those faculty members to speak for it; that the very act of allowing them to stay signals support for their views. This is nonsense. They are paid to teach. Their political views are their own business. Making the point, quite unintentionally I would guess, that the last thing Libertarianism promotes is individual liberty. If you're not free to speak your views openly without fear of destitution, then just how free is speech, really?
The Ravine / Joseph Dunphy

YouTube - Religious nuts in Texas seek to ban book about book banning! - 0 views

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    The book is Ray Bradbury's "Fahrenheit 451". I wonder if they'll burn it?
The Ravine / Joseph Dunphy

The MTTLR Blog: Taking Down a Bully, But Taking the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act Too Far? - 0 views

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    Criticism of the decision in the Lori Drew case.
The Ravine / Joseph Dunphy

Washington Times - The 'Orwellian' Bush administration - 0 views

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    About the Bush administration's attack on separation of powers
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Op-Ed Columnist - Forgive and Forget? - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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    Paul Krugman says something about Obama's statement that there would be no widespread investigation of Bush administration abuses that should be common sense, but sadly isn't, and so badly needs to be said. Found on Furl.
The Ravine / Joseph Dunphy

Is Your Boss a Psychopath? | Fast Company - 0 views

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    You've long suspected, and now somebody thinks he knows. If he's right, what does that say about lassez faire?
The Ravine / Joseph Dunphy

Epilepsy Fdn.-Michigan Man Arrested During Seizure - 0 views

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    Another great moment in modern American law enforcement. Man gets bludgeoned and tasered by the police for having an epileptic seizure.
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Truthdig - Truthdig Podcast - You Have No Rights - 0 views

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    What was becoming of civil liberties during the recently departed Bush administration. Doesn't address the uncomfortable question of whether this is a continuation of trends seen during the Clinton administration.
The Ravine / Joseph Dunphy

Truthdig - Reports - Socialism Without a Soul - 0 views

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    Commentary on the notion that the Bush Administration and neocons were pro-free enterprise.
The Ravine / Joseph Dunphy

Neal Rodriguez: BART Cop Needs to Be Held without Bail - 0 views

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    More about the young man who was shot and killed while face down on the pavement, "execution style", as the author says, by a transit cop on BART, the San Francisco Bay Area's rapid transit system. Perhaps I'm missing something, but weren't the police supposed to be enforcing the laws, including the one against murder?
The Ravine / Joseph Dunphy

Cop gone wild- Lying and making threats just part of his job - 0 views

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    Another police officer who didn't know he was being taped.
The Ravine / Joseph Dunphy

The Genius of George Bush - 0 views

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    A best moments video as the ex-president speaks out about ... something.
The Ravine / Joseph Dunphy

Politics Explained - 0 views

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    Illustrating the differences between the various ideologies, while you weigh the merits of becoming a hermit.
The Ravine / Joseph Dunphy

Fade out on George W Bush by Pepe Escobar - 0 views

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    Don't necessarily agree with all of this, but one of many kissoffs to a president I won't miss, unless Obama manages to be even worse - and with January 20 being so close at hand when I first submitted this to my now invisible Ma.gnolia account, I felt the need to bookmark at least one. Found on Furl.
The Ravine / Joseph Dunphy

Op-Ed Columnist - An Economy of Faith and Trust - NYTimes.com - 0 views

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    David Brooks, in an op / ed piece to the New York times, discovers that participation in the market does not magically transform human beings into the rational beings that one could easily see that they aren't by ... oh, say, talking to them.
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War Between Democracies - 0 views

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    Rebuttal to an often repeated and sometimes rationalized piece of folk wisdom that holds that such wars never happen. Found on Furl.
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Black Guy Asks Nation For Change | The Onion - America's Finest News Source - 0 views

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    Satire posted during the Obama campaign.
The Ravine / Joseph Dunphy

Most lucrative college degrees - May. 9, 2003 - 0 views

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    Deliberately bookmarking an article posted over five years ago to help make a point - one keeps hearing people say that the American job market has been bad "lately", as if the severe shortage of entry level opportunity in America were a recent phenomenon, instead of the lingering scandal that it has been.
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Unemployed try unconventional methods to find jobs - Jan. 14, 2009 - 0 views

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    Now, something from today (2009) as the author talks about sometimes undignified extremes that some applicants go to in the often futile search for work. Submitted to Digg by bamafun.
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