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iambarr | March 29, 2009
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Adversaries
iambarr | March 25, 2009
“It’s a story, so I’ve personified the adversaries. But the real adversaries are almost always internal or projected.”
-Douglass Rushkoff, speaking about Testament.
Brilliant People who are not me:
iambarr | March 25, 2009
So I spend many of my pretend-to-be-a-security-guard hours reading the words of people vastly smarter than myself. It’s humbling, amusing, enlightening, and occasionally painfully depressing. My reading time tonight has been filled with an inspiring combination of each of these as I’ve continually found myself lost in the endlessly thought-provoking ideas of some of my [...]
mmmmm, mushrooms (and accindental alliteration)
iambarr | March 25, 2009
[youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VhVcKWE00j0&hl=en&fs=1]sixty seconds of succulent psychedelic swellness, starting with several seconds of something strangely sexy
Temperance movement – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
iambarr | March 22, 2009
The Maine law, passed in 1851 in Maine, was one of the first statutory implementations of the developing temperance movement in the United States. Temperance activist Neal Dow helped force the law into existence. The passage of the law, which prohibited the sale of all alcoholic beverages except for “medicinal, mechanical or manufacturing purposes,” quickly [...]
Conflicting Opinions
iambarr | March 22, 2009
Of Eros:
“Eros makes his home in men’s hearts, but not in every heart, for where there is hardness he departs. His greatest glory is that he cannot do wrong nor allow it; force never comes near him. For all men serve him of their own free will. And he whom Love touches not walks in [...]
Immanentize the Eschatron
iambarr | March 14, 2009
Hooverville
iambarr | March 14, 2009
Hoovervilles and Bushvilles
iambarr | March 14, 2009
The term Hooverville was coined by Charles Michelson as a reference to the president who “caused” the great depression.
The term Bushville has arisen in the past few years as a way of linking George Bush and the 08 collapse with Herbert Hoover and the 29 collapse.
Fark coined the subtle, but hilarious term Shruburbs based on [...]
Tent city – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
iambarr | March 14, 2009
Tent cities resulting from the 2008-2009 economic collapse have also been referred to as Bushvilles in criticism of George W. Bush\'s economic policies, drawing comparisons to the Hoovervilles of the Great Depression.