Dec 8th, 2009
On Football and Race
In response to “Football, the great racial leveler [link]” I see two problems with the argument that the recruitment of blacks and the celebration of black players correlates to a decline in racism. First, the majority has always been…
Nov 1st, 2009
Kanye and Reverse Racism
I’ve noticed something about the reactions and counter-reactions to Kanye West’s “I’mma lechu finish!” antic. Most people thought it was funny — or at least the resulting jokes that came from it, but more than a handful of people on…
Sep 25th, 2009
Fax Machines Are Ridiculous Inventions
Imagine having a printer that automatically printed out every piece of SPAM you received. That was the norm at the company where I started my career. Add to it that fax machines were practically one-way communication devices, jamming and screeching and failing whenever one tried to send something, and you have an unbelievably stupid package. Environmentally, it's a nightmare, and the fact that the technology remains so poor and undeveloped--and that it's still in use years later, is baffling. It feels like we made a bad and strange technology mistake, but only a few caught on. That's all.
Sep 4th, 2009
Atlas Shrugged, by Ayn Rand
Rand would have us believe that altruism and compassion do not really exist--that strength and intelligence are never applied honestly to improving the well-being of others. A person is either intelligent and driven, in which case their highest goal is their own personal fulfillment, or they must be a lecher who "clutters up the world" and pretends to care about the poor only in order to steal from those who work hard. This is an important foundation of fear-based conservative politics.
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