Adding philosophical depth to anything and everything
Is it subtle or blatant? It is blatant when you understand what you are looking at and why it’s portrayed that way. From its own home page, Amazon’s fashion sexism is plainly visible. Take a look at how men and women are portrayed differently in adverting, especially in the fashion […]
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I’ve never been one to place much stock in voodoo or ancient curses or the like. Nor am I a superstitious person. Sports people, though, tend to be more superstitious and baseball players and fans are perhaps more suspicious than most. So talk of curses being real is nothing new […]
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It’s weird, I know, but I enjoy spam e-mails. They provide insights into the human psyche, revealing what people want and fear, and how other people try to exploit those desires and fears. I have a throwaway e-mail address that I use for signing up to things that will get […]
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Behold The Memeocene. Dialogue and politics are dead and we killed them. As human population and technology grows, there is increasing talk that we have entered a new epoch—the anthropocene or epoch of humans. The idea behind the appellation is that the Earth–its biology and geology–is being altered by human […]
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. Is Anthony Bourdain’s Message Already Forgotten? The eulogies, tributes, and expressions of dismay and gratitude came quickly after the shocking news of Anthony Bourdain’s death. The many eloquent and wonderful things that were said about Bourdain I do not need to repeat. In all of those expressions of praise […]
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Video One: On 15 March 2019, a right-wing bigot posted a video of his massacre of 50 innocents in Christchurch, New Zealand. Video Two: On 15 March 2019, a proud father posted a video of his teenage son’s singing performance at a pub in England. Facebook eventually shut down both […]
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I first noticed the strip of flesh phenomenon on a cold day January 2015. It was windy, rainy, with occasional snowflakes in the air. I was on my university campus on my way to teach my class. I was walking head down into the fierce wind the good half mile […]
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I am going to address a touchy subject and dare to ask: what is the problem with the transgender label? There is absolutely no problem with any human being who could consider themselves “transgender.” All human beings should be accepted for who they are. No, the problem is the label […]
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