When I first heard of the arrest of Governor Blagojevich, my context for this information was the boycott of Bank of America that Blagojevich promoted. The days before his arrest, the Governor had made headlines for supporting former employees of Republic Windows and Doors. Bank of America was/…

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Once celebrated for her conservative values, like helicopter-hunting, book-banning and charging rape victems for their own rape investigation kits, Sarah Palin finds herself the object of less Alaskan adoration these days. The Wasilla church she once attended was targetted by arsonists, but wh/…

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Bono is poised to make millions of dollars at the expense of the music promotion company Live Nation.  In this article, Ethan Smith at the Wall Street Journal reported that: "The Irish rock band U2 hasn't toured since 2006, but it stands to make $25 million in a sweetheart stock deal,… Read full post »

Yesterday, the Fed dropped the US interest rate to .25%. WTF? (or, conversely, FTW?) I mean, if Japan's long recession (eerily similar to the global slowdown about to impact all y'all) had only ended well, that would be one thing, but sadly, no, their economy is also suffering now.

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Muntather al Zaidi reminded us here in Christendom of the cultural meaning attached to shoes in the ancient city of Baghdad and the wider Muslim world. They are  vehicles for contempt and, awesomely, highly efficient projectiles.

For his efforts at contesting the impunity of B… Read full post »

So how does it feel? I comply, daily. I reify. I reproduce the relationships of power and domination with every move I make within this state-sanctioned routine I call my life.

I consent, and furthermore, I benefit. If the global system was a huge pyramid (scheme), I would be positioned… Read full post »

Losing (or at least loosening) my religion was certainly not the most comfortable thing I’ve ever done, but the years of baby-stepping my way through the logical progressions that suspended many of my cherished beliefs were well worth the mental and emotional anguish. Not just because I… Read full post »

So in the last 15 years the relationship between femininity and sexuality (never straight-forward) has become increasingly problematic. While I was busy watching cartoons and playing with action figures with my kids, the role of women and girls within the narrative of twenty-first-century Ame… Read full post »

So I was sitting in a landscape architecture design class a few years ago, when the Professor asked us to reflect on the deeper aesthetic, and perhaps collectively human, significance of the number twelve. At his invitation students began to offer up examples - twelve months in a year and… Read full post »

My brilliant new girlfriend Rachel Maddow tells this tale of the perverse manifestation of capitalism that increasingly sacrifices the livelihood of the many to the gluttony of the few.

Embedded within October's Wall Street Baal-Out was the repeal of a previously untouchable tax law that prev… Read full post »