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Posts from March 2009

The Economics of Disability: My Question for President Obama

As many of you know. President Obama will be answering questions about the economy submitted at WhiteHouse.gov during a town hall event Thursday.

Here is the video I recorded (transcript after the jump). Please take a moment and go to the website to vote for it (search for "Community Choice Act").


CNN.com openly regurgitates “talking points”

Check out the end of this CNN.com article (google cache for posterity). Despite being written by the network's "Special Investigations Unit," the article literally relays "talking points" from the Department of Labor word for word, as if they were just copy-and-pasted. (They probably were.)

The fact that the article clearly identifies the talking points as such [...]


New U2 Album $4 on Amazon

Yes, it was on BitTorrent 2 weeks ago, but if you didn't swipe it early or just like your music legal, go pick up U2's long-awaited new album for just $4 today. It rocks.


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1 March 2009 @ 8am

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Post(modern) faith

This semester I have the honor of taking a course with the incomparable Charlene Spretnak titled "The Eco-Social Vision." An interesting side-effect of our conversations (as a capstone to two years of complimentary multilogues at CIIS) is that, when I come across a discussion of postmodernism these days, I'm interested more in the modern than [...]