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On inequality and education

(Folks, this is a reprise of a diary I posted in July of this year over at Kos -- it made the Rescued list. It takes the form of a commentary upon a Chronicle of Higher Education piece. The most important thing to take away from this diary is that of the utter and complete bogusness of the "reform agenda," whether it be Republican or Democratic.

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Union songs for the Wal-Mart strike

At this point anyone who has read Barbara Ehrenreich's Nickel and Dimed can tell you what is at stake with the Wal-Mart worker's strike.  Ehrenreich tried to live off of a Wal-Mart worker's wage, and discovered rather quickly that she couldn't live anywhere in the vicinity of the Wal-Mart at which she was hired, because the rents in that neighborhood were just too high for the paltry wage she was earning.

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On the Ad Hominem Argument

(reprised from DailyKos.com)
 

I am simply amazed by the number of people here who think that ad hominem arguments are valid -- or maybe what I'm amazed at is the sheer quantity of time they spend making such arguments.  Here I hope to explain, simply, what an ad hominem argument is, and how it functions.

 

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Ad hominem argument, as follows:

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The source of collective hope

"If I can't dance, I don't want to be part of your revolution."

-Emma Goldman

This diary is about three things:

1) Hope. One of the responses to my last diary was a discussion of collectives:

I’m not optimistic that our species can think collectively, can decide collectively, nor can it take action on the scale necessary to save everyone.

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