thanks for...whatever that was, Ken.

It's (Great Gatsby) probably worth a re-read, I enjoyed in in high-school but I thought the trailer for the movie didn't look anything like what I remembered..

1) The Rich and the Rest of Us: A poverty manifesto by Tavis Smiley and Cornel West 203 pg. 2) Harvest of Empire: A History of Latinos in America by Juan Gonzalez 346 pg. This was a really good book that thoroughly breaks down the different waves of Latin American immigrants and their respective pat...

I agree with Ken in that I'm more aggravated at his persistent denial going so far as to mock those who were suspicious of his accomplishments without performance-enhancing substances.

"What am I on? I'm on my bike, busting my ass for 6 hours a day."

What an arrogant prick.

Not an article, but a recent interview with Noam Chompsky: http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/01/13/noam-chomsky-blasts-obama-he-has-no-moral-center/ This 25 min interview touches on many important things like - privilege as a call to responsibility for social change @ 3:30 - neo-liberalization (global...

If you look at US income distributions, the majority of people fit the demographic you're talking about. All of the middle three quintiles and most of the top quintile are middle class. Likewise the majority of these people live in suburbs. Just like with the "white" bias, you're merely saying that...

Gonna try to keep up to date with this this year, and significantly increase my list :P 1) The Rich and the Rest of Us: A poverty manifesto by Tavis Smiley and Cornel West 203 pg. This was a really good and very up-to-date book, published early 2012, about poverty in America. Poverty has long since ...

http://www.rollingstone.com/culture/new ... e-20121207

"The Rise and Fall of Jeremy Hammond: Enemy of the State"

A must-read for anyone interested in Anonymous, hackisvism, and the like. And if you're not, you should be.

I have to admit looking back on some articles making this connection that there is a lack of empirical data proving it, it's rather an argument about privilege in general and how massacres happening in suburbia take precedent over very common inner-city crimes, underscoring some other societal issue...

Point taken

Love it!

Especially liked the link @ 1:30

great stuff, keep it up, Ken!

I don't really find that source to be comprehensive as it makes no effort to define "mass shootings", it merely states and maps them. I could not find what criteria they were using as "mass shootings". The MotherJones article I linked in my post clearly defines what fit the criteria for a "mass shoo...

I found that article very difficult as well. Though I think he makes some good points, some others I think are very lacking. I do agree that though I am a definite idealist and would love to have a utopia without guns, that will never, ever happen and thus we must work with what we are given, so dis...

While my gut reaction to the article left a resonating "BULLSHIT" vibe, I'll concede that that it's not that facts I disagree with, it is the underpinning (and manipulative in some cases) means by which they are reported and the broader thesis by which they support. Namely, the article cites globali...

Oh Yea and



15) Lies my Teacher Told Me by James Loewen

Neither of your two criticisms actually contradict anything the article says. It was not my intention to contradict anything the article is saying. Rather, I am looking at it from a different point of view which takes into consideration things that I think this article severely undermines. I did no...

Okay, I'll admit outright that the difference in opinion is rooted in philosophy, not metrics that independent sources produce. I don't have the time nor the capacity to dig into studies, scholarly or otherwise, to counter your arguments. I use the public library for my internet access and that's li...

For sake of keeping track, wanted to post the books I read this year. no reviews unfortunately, as I tried doing that earlier and it was lost :x Oh well. 1) Meaning of Marxism by Paul D'Amato 2) Zombie Capitalism by Chris Harman 3) Believing Brain by Michael Shermer 4) Brain Bugs by Dean Buonomano 5...

OMG I just spent about an hour going over books I read this year and gave them all a review. Modified logged me out and it didn't post.

Fuck this!

That article sucked. How fucking pompus to claim that the world is going 50 shades of awesome from an (I'm assuming) very privileged perspective as someone who writes for The Spectator. A generation that doesn't know of war? BULLSHIT. Energy abundance in the form of horizontal fracturing ("fracking"...