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The Misadventures...: December 2005
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Thursday, December 22, 2005. Thoughts About "Deal or No Deal". At Annie's request, I have been sucked into a very enjoyable TV show. The show is "Deal or No Deal," which purportedly gives you a chance to win $1,000,000 without offering any trivia questions, and no other problematic catches. Here's what I've figured out with my non-technical math skills:. A) you have the $1 million. Your odds of revealing it in the 4 cases on the floor are zero. 2 cases total, 1 on the floor: Host says 50%; actual=zero or...
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The Misadventures...: July 2006
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Sunday, July 02, 2006. The funny thing about human rights. The recent Supreme Court ruling, which has come under fire from some members of the GOP and brought on cries for "broader" interpretation by some Democrats, deals with a decidedly tactical issue. Quick question: how are the persons upholding the law in a state's executive able to thwart legality and practice illegality? Posted by Nick Z. at 5:22 PM. The motives of policing. The Death of Santa. The Death of Sovereignty. Thus, what is a subject?
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The Misadventures...: September 2006
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Friday, September 22, 2006. The Death of Sovereignty. Iraq is not a sovereign nation. Or, in fact, Iraq. Not a sovereign nation. This fact was apparent in 2003, when the war was in its stages of rhetoric, and is more confusedly apparent now, albeit in a new context. Pakistan is a sovereign nation. President Bush made such a proclamation recently when speaking about the potential movement of American troops into Pakistan in order to follow an elusive bin Laden. The terms of "nation" are blurry. What m...
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The Misadventures...: January 2007
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Friday, January 12, 2007. The motives of policing. A new year, a new argument. This week, as stories of an increased troop level in Iraq abound, there rest beneath the surface decaying motives, distorting the possibility of correcting any American activities in Iraq. But, is policing in this sense an administration if justice? Or an attempt to suspend violence? So, the motives remain, but they are a ruin. There is not "a" terrorism any longer. (In fact, there probably never were merely "terrorist...But y...
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The Misadventures...: January 2006
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Tuesday, January 31, 2006. Fun with liberal political philosophy. In the spirit of uncovering the overreaching political ideals used by President Bush- freedom, democracy, and terrorism, and to a lesser extent, dictatorships. I tried a fun little exercise based on my suspicion of what Bush really means when he says these things. Also, try "non-electoral governments" for "dictatorships". I've italicized some particularly good ones.). Each time I am invited to this rostrum, I am humbled by the privilege, a...
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The Misadventures...: December 2006
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Saturday, December 23, 2006. The Death of Santa. As the holiday shopping season nears its close, the final weekend of a shopping frenzy, we are consistently bombarded this season with advertisements from numerous corporations that are making great jokes (attempted satire, really) about the ineptitude or irrelevance of Santa Claus. Old St. Nick. But, who really cares? As Best Buy shows us, the thriving consumerism of hypercapitalism negates any necessity for traditional, loving, giving. It's not the t...
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The Misadventures...: February 2006
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Saturday, February 25, 2006. Why baseball is the greatest game. But, I've recently got to thinking. Apart from my love of the Brewers, what makes baseball such a great game? There are many other great games: especially basketball and football. Excellent sports to watch, and the nuances of the game are intense and manifold. Yet, baseball edges them out.why is that? Unlike other games, there is no game clock in baseball. The pitcher is the vital player of a baseball game because he controls the pace of...
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The Misadventures...: May 2006
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Friday, May 19, 2006. The Importance of an identifiable minority. Will the yellow badge of the Jew become a new symbol of worship in Iran? Marginalized group, marginalized worship/cultural practice equals, on the other hand, the strengthening of the mainstream political process, one of worship and democratic participation beneath the laws of God as dictated to man here a contradiction in terms. Posted by Nick Z. at 9:32 AM. Saturday, May 13, 2006. Posted by Nick Z. at 9:43 AM. The motives of policing.
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The Misadventures...: April 2006
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Thursday, April 06, 2006. A worker is a worker is a worker. Published in April 6. The immigration debate is heating up, as though there were a shortage of hot political issues in America. Joseph Kastner's April 4 Viewpoint argued against legislation that might aid the advancement of the status of illegal immigrants through amnesty. Apart from his "practical" proposals, there are two theoretical problems that plague his Viewpoint. Imagine, for a moment, a context in which illegal immigration is abolished ...
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The Misadventures...: March 2006
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Sunday, March 26, 2006. The new hot-button political issue, as if there weren't enough already, is the immigration debate. Thus far, there are two problems:. 1) How to keep future "illegals" out of the United States. 2) What to do with "illegals" that are in the United States. The difficulty of the legislators is that they must write legislation from an empowered, majority standpoint, for a group that has no representation, no power, and is of a "lesser" cultural status (if only numerically). America nee...
