Tag Archives: fundamentalism

home is where. no seriously. where is it.

2011/04/09 – 21:44

Like most urban dwellers in the US, I am from somewhere else. I have been from somewhere else for as long as I can remember. But what I mean to write about is going home.

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back.

2010/10/05 – 14:53

When I was six nobody knew where Seattle was. That was not at all what I meant to say.

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why greed is now closer to godliness than ever.

2010/09/01 – 17:48

why do fundamentalist Christians worship “all-for-me, nothing-for-you,” greed-driven, planet trashing consumption-driven capital above just about any other kind of economic system?

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on my own

2010/07/15 – 06:56

As it happens, I have decided to, if not systematically, then at least with some sense of deliberation, try to unpack the tangle of narrative and nervous tissue that constitutes my own origin myth. Some of this involves therapy; some of it involves finishing the goddamned autobiography already.

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A short treatise on religious rhetoric

2008/11/09 – 01:26

Because I am nobody sitting here in a deserted corner of the intarwebs, my post on the subject is not in this list, but bloggers all over the place are still talking about the racism inherent in blaming California African Americans for passing Proposition 8 on Tuesday. Alas, a blog has posted a list of [...]

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Now it is over

2008/11/05 – 04:51

OK so today is November 4 even though this post is dated November 5 and if you find this puzzling, consult the first few sentences of yesterday’s post, which was the post for November 3. This may happen regularly throughout the month, but in the end I will be awake for approximately 30 longish periods [...]

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