I’m reading this article about a guy who killed his own father and am alarmed to see so much of myself in him. I get where his rage comes from. What I don’t understand at all is how he chose to channel that rage. I don’t understand what he did with it. This guy –…
Category: Politics
Tweet Your Dissent
A local college instructor told me about the rhetoric class she taught this fall. She had her students watch the presidential debates. “Watching those debates is usually very useful for students. [The debates] illustrate rhetorical tools and logical fallacies.” This year was quite different. Students saw Trump fail to use even the most basic principles of…
It’s Absurd! Or: Suicide as the One True Philosophical Problem
Some time in the early 1940s (or, possibly, the decade before, or really any time between then and about 1915 but most likely in the late 30s), Albert Camus wrote: “The absurd man will not commit suicide; he wants to live, without relinquishing any of his certainty, without a future, without hope, without illusions ……
Why Iowa Votes Democrat
This post was inspired by an infographic someone posted on my Facebook newsfeed, and, yes, I do have the actual answer. As I was born and raised in Iowa, it never really occurred to me to ask this question, because the answer seems so obvious. It’s ingrained in my brain, my personality, and my values….
Sunday: 6 Days Without a Federal Government
Since the days of George W., I have grown more and more accustomed to the idea of breaking the country up into smaller pieces. Our representation on a federal level has become such a joke that it only makes sense to fire everyone. People in other countries are astounded by our lack of protest over the…
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