Steve Hammons
October 31, 2007
Toward the end of the televised Democratic presidential candidates’ debate on MSNBC Tuesday, Oct. 30, NBC’s Tim Russert asked Ohio Congressman Dennis Kucinich about published reports that he had once seen a triangle-shaped unidentified flying object.
Kucinich stated briefly that, yes, he did see something that was unidentified (at least to him), [...]
Libertarianism never considers that the conditions it identifies as the free-market are not a manifestation, resulting from the absence of regulation, but the obfuscation of contravening sociopolitical mechanisms that have come to be obscured through the naturalization of a particular juridical-legal discourse, which has been endorsed and promoted so vehemently and so effectively, as the ‘natural’ socio-economic order, that we have lost sight – and hence forgotten – that these conventions were created through social processes, whereby these conditions were the emergent byproducts of social control and regulation. In short, the free-market is a historically situated specification of norms and values – as well as political operations, in which power is deployed by social interests in a social field of contending agencies.
As much as I’ve always enjoyed Ogden Nash, the poet, I must confess that many of his writings have impacted me as if coming from the wisdom of a philosopher rather than the wit of an accomplished light verse mechanic. And, among his many vignettes, there is one that seems to have stayed inscribed [...]
I had heard a report of this diplomatic dispatch that was sent to the Bush Administration by the Iranians about six months ago. However, as the way things stand in the current state of American intellectual public discourse, I did not even attempt to disseminate the report I had encountered to a wider audience.
All too often, accurate contents [...]
There are some events whether of regional, national or international significance, that carve a niche in our memories and remain there for the rest of our conscious lives; that is, assuming they also have personal meaning and import. For many of us who were past the age of reason [...]
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