It’s time for men to liberate themselves by burning their ties.

It's way past time for this mass protest.  Let's set the scene at a large prominent public space such as the Washington, DC Mall.  Let's gather five million white-collar workers and professionals and invite them to throw their neckties into a huge bonfire to demonstrate that they're not willing to…

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Bloggers who get access to the President

The new media are increasingly learning the lessons of the corporate media. According to this post on the Harper's site, the bloggers who get personal access to the President are those who write about the President sympathetically. Here's an example of the sort of bloggers the President seeks: Matthew Burden, who…

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You are African—whoever you are

According to National Geographic’s Genographic Project, we are all African.  The DNA tests taken in many isolated native populations conclusively demonstrate that we are all no more than 2000 generations removed from Africa.  If you’d like, sign up and learn the path of your own migration out of Africa for…

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New fMRI study: woman in vegetative state might be conscious

Salon.com has published an article ("The light's on, but is anybody home?") on a new study that claims that scientists are able to determine (based on fMRI studies) that a woman who has been diagnosed to be in a vegetative state for two years appears to be conscious. In a…

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A good source for subversive quotes

Good quotes are explosive. There's a novel hiding in every good quote. Well, here's a good collection of subversive quotes from Vagabox.  It includes many of my favorites and many that I hadn't read before.   Here's a tiny sampling from a large collection: The police are not here to create…

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