Why I'm Glad I Use an All-Female OBGYN Practice. The President of the United States explains the facts of life (windows media video). (Via Atrios.)… [Kathryn Cramer] —- very disappointing….. the president just doesn't understand the world at all.

A Day in the Life of Joe Middle-Class Republican. This is priceless; add it to the annals of false consciousness studies. [The Leiter Reports: Editorials, News, Updates] http://tvnewslies.org/Day_in_The_Life_Of_Joe_Middle1.pdf Joe gets up at 6:00am to prepare his morning coffee. He fills his pot full of good clean drinking water because some liberal fought for minimum water […]

Right…. It feels good to be home. I seem like I'm no longer running around in someone else's nightmare. I have moveabletype, and I can construct my own little nightmares all by my self… now is the time for configuration…. [Words – big ones and little ones…] —- until he breaks it. not that it […]

Government Open Source Policies. The efforts include measures to investigate open-source software or give it preference in purchasing decisions, according to a draft study published by the Center for Strategic and International Studies. The tally indicates some success by open-source advocates promoting the programming… [InternetPolicy.net] —- some is better than none, but there is no […]

labor day exists for a reason. it exist to remind you that there is a reason you should work 8 hour days, that there is a reason that children don't work in factories, that there is a reason why people get paid a minimum wage. it is because people fought for their future and the […]

yes, this has been going on a while…… ruining any sense of progressive culture and american ideals. conservativism of these strains is anti-american.

There I go…. The address is now… and I hope for a while http://jasonnolan.net/words for daily postings. Don't go complaining that you have to change things. Either it is worth it, or it is not. And if it isn't, why have you been hanging around this long? [Team Polysynchronous – Just Differently Intelligent – – […]

New version of OJS. The University of British Columbia Public Knowledge Project has released Open Journal Systems version 1.1.8. OJS is open-source journal management software. The new version supports LOCKSS, delayed OA (an embargo period that can be set by the article or by the issue), and publishing in French and Spanish (in addition to […]

Science is Political. In a classic televised debate from 1971 titled Human Nature: Justice versus Power Michel Foucault and Noam Chomsky discuss their respective approaches to understanding the foundations of social structure. Since Chomsky and Foucault entertain partially contradictory views on human nature and society their exchange highlights the differences of their theoretical departure points. […]

i am starting to believe that people who write blogs about academia really need to watch Brazil a few more times and particularly pay attention to the samurai scenes