Month October 2011

Dickies. Paranoid

They were amazing live in the 80’s when I saw them. Drug problems hurt them (me too, at a different time) but they’re still touring so it sounds like they got passed all that. Good.

Promoting critical thinking and academic symbiosis in education

One of the characteristics of our educational system has different subjects put into neat separate boxes. Math, reading, art, science. Today, we see much more blurriness and convergence between subjects like science, religion, philosophy. This “Gnostic syncretism”—the combining of knowledge—is…

We’ve been occupied by Wall Street for years

@OccupyTheHood, Occupy Wall Street from adele pham on Vimeo. American Leftist The man in this video, Malik from Occupy the Hood… initially went to Occupy Wall Street to observe, noted that figures like Cornel West and Russell Simmons supported it,…