Philosophy
Mike Huckabee on Pastor Wright
Submitted by johnk on Sun, 03/23/2008 - 10:35.And one other thing I think we've got to remember: As easy as it is for those of us who are white to look back and say, "That's a terrible statement," I grew up in a very segregated South, and I think that you have to cut some slack. And I'm going to be probably the only conservative in America who's going to say something like this, but I'm just telling you: We've got to cut some slack to people who grew up being called names, being told, "You have to sit in the balcony when you go to the movie. You have to go to the back door to go into the restaurant. And you can't sit out there with everyone else. There's a separate waiting room in the doctor's office. Here's where you sit on the bus." And you know what?
Drupal: Upgrade Notes
Submitted by johnk on Wed, 05/02/2007 - 02:31.Crap... this upgrade didn't work out so great. A detailed check of the tables show that the tables are okay. For some reason, the data isn't quite right, and I need to fix up the themes.
What's Going On
Submitted by johnk on Sat, 02/10/2007 - 06:27.Business
It's been a while since I've blogged, because of a short term overload of things to do, putting in full time at a client's, and also taking a business class at the CC. Yes, business. It was a little bit of a shock to my anarcho-socialist mind to learn that most of the ideas we hold aren't different from the ideas taught in biz school... it's the "masses" who are uninformed about it... and it's only the anarcho-socialistic types who think something is wrong with the way things are. The biz class attitude is to just get yourself on top of the pyramid, and hope to avoid a revolution. I suspect biz school is also a leading vehicle for teaching the finer points of shady business practices and political corruption, but I can't be sure of this.
What I was hoping for were lessons on accounting and standard business practices, negotiation, and laws. Being an intro class, though, none of that was being taught. So, I'll have to just take some specific classes for those things. What was taught: money, organization, government, marketing. It's just basic capitalism, and as enlightening as sitting through an intro to Marx, Weber, or Gramsci. The book was okay, but was biased in favor of business, and also had some factual errors. The factual errors kind of killed it for me.
Apocalypse No!
Submitted by johnk on Tue, 08/01/2006 - 12:51.Read Apocalypse No! by Juan Santos.
Science has given us until roughly 2012 to take radical action to change the course we’re on. In the next six years, they tell us, we will determine the fate of the Earth.
With the US and its white colonial puppet Israel on a nuclear collision course with Iran and Syria, we may have less time than that.250 million years ago 95% of all species died. Only one large land animal was left. Carbon dioxide and methane – the two most deadly of the greenhouse gases – were responsible. We can do it again. We’ve followed the script, we know our lines, and we’ve reached the final scene.
