In about forty-five minutes I will walk out my door. Ten minutes after that, I will attend my local Republican Party Caucus in the gym of my old high school. My neighborhood, it’s fair to say, is democratic. I think there is a Romney supporter up the street, but they posted no yard sign this [...]
Forget for a moment the racist charges, von Mises’ism’ness, anti Civil Rightedness–all of it. The libertarian appeal has had to find sometimes obscure pockets to work its ideas into the American conversation because libertarianism is not properly a traditonal mainstream ideology, only when convenient is it called in. This has changed, and it knows no [...]
Two Political Bodies…? Today human and posthuman stand as two general, political spheres. Each sphere interacts with the other, each taking place in the other, not easily if at all distinguishable from the other. My interest in the recent surge of Republican candidate Ron Paul speaks to this phenomenon. The question of a return [...]
Your own, personal, antichrist. To stand outside of the human condition forwards the imperative of ordo as to obtain confusio “In radical fashion, he sweeps away the traditional image: this image, he insists, must be understood allegorically, not in some literal historical way. What the ‘antichrist’ means is grasped philologically everyone who is Christo [...]
“You Wanna a Job Right?” The “hacker group” Anonymous intends to disrupt or shutdown the Iowa Caucuses by targeting campaign offices in Des Moines with a sit-in on caucus night. Anonymous cites corporations and the complicity of both major parties driving “millions” of people into “poverty.” Anonymous, already linked to OWS, is encouraging OWS [...]
And how does it raise Cain? The third party way is a stinker in American politics and Ron Paul just can’t shake it from his garments. Even as a Republican he still has Nader syndrome. The media does not like him. The other day on NPR Neil Conan just shot down the town [...]
“There you go again.” The persona non grata stance or, to be against President Obama, has been nothing subtle in the last few years. This haterism has hit a disquieting intensity in the generic republican candidate incubation process. If the algae bloom of Rockin’ Rick Perry’s government-hating rhetoric hasn’t been the mushroom cloud [...]