brianbuchbinder.bsky.social
Retired public defender, retired boiler and plumbing repair. I could get you heat and hot water, or get you out of hot water.
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<sigh> Some police agencies have used 'psychics" so at least this is actual pseudoscience.
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www.youtube.com/watch?v=V8BR...
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After all, back in high school I had to read Mrs. Gaskell. That didn't turn me into a nazi, but it did have me turn to better things to read.
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As if there were no other books to read. "This is not a novel to be tossed aside lightly. It should be thrown with great force."
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Did anyone (especially a Senator with a legislative staff) really believe RFK's lies, especially as he was caught lying on-camera, and has a very easily researched history of lying about just about everything. That and the dead Samoans.
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There's an extremely depressing chapter on Christian fundies' use of violence against their kids in @swordsjew.bsky.social recent book "Wild Faith". Fun Fact: You can buy implements to beat kids with on Amazon.
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Now do "A squeeze of the hand."
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It was (unintentionally) true in 1968 as it continues to be. "The police are not here to create disorder; they're here to preserve disorder."
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And proper medical coverage.
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Oh shit. Adorno, you are correct. Note to self: Don't post when enjoying extreme jet lag but wanting something to do when wide awake at 3AM
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Those "contributions" have been contested by white academics since Walter Benjamin spewed forth his critique of jazz. That bit is worthy of comparison to Wagner's "Die Judentum im Musik"
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I got my info 2nd hand, so don't have many more details beyond my friend's similar surprise. I surmise that the TA had indeed loved lit, gotten the usual pseudo-leftist messages early on in the Uni, and was rebelling against that earlier "naive view".
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That tracks with my friend who got a Comp Lit PhD in the early oughts. She started a decade before that, closely reading indeed, but was hard-pressed by a teaching assistant, much further behind her path, literally to "hate literature" for the benefit of...something.
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This is not to say that unprovable conjectures are not in themselves interesting or worthy of our time, only that the function of such humanities as literary criticism or even philosophy may not be to change minds, but only to stimulate them, or perhaps just to entertain them.
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Thanks for this. The problem you pose might well be summed up in the first paragraph of this:
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Oh. That soliloquy is great. Thank you.
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Yeah, because posting online will kill the bill unless we post online about something else too much.
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Just to be pedantic, there are laws about publishing classified material. Not treason. James needs a bit of CCT, Critical Constitutional Theory.
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Saying the soft part hard.
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OK but this you must admit is a banger.
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Very small d**k energy.
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dann (gottverdammt autocorrect)
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That is as Brecht so succinctly put it “Erst kommt das fressen; damn kommt die moral”
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evidence-free assertion. and as well met (assuming thats needed) by a dictator as by a nebulous sense that “something “ is required.
Almost everyone is already coerced to work for decreasing value returned so billionaires can compete to be trillionaires
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The point of drug laws, aside from giving Judges, jailers, probation officers, prosecutors and defenders (me) nice incomes was to give more intrusion power to so-called law enforcement officers. Erosion of protections against search was a feature not a bug.
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I think decant into unbreakable containers
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Specifically they would stop people possessing non criminal amounts and when the victim produced it in response to police demand got charged with “public display “ a criminal offense. Guessing the ethnic group targeted left as exercise for the reader
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Legalizing cannabis has saved massive amounts of money and reduced police intrusion especially in the lives of the poorest folk. I NYC even after “decriminalization” police/prosecutors cooperated for years in making false misdemeanor accusations in order to jail and fingerprint minority youth.
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US “war on drugs is more than 50 years old. Huge costs both in money and broken lives in crime schools (prisons) with negligible effect on use.
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Of all offenses resistant to policing, drug use has to be the most intractable yet over and over both militarization of police and increased intrusion by police is the (useless) cure.
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As Mark Crislip MD used to say. “If you combine apple pie and cow pie, the taste of neither one is improved “
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School closures. 5 years in the rear-view. Yglesias really wants to keep stupid issues alive for the benefit of...the GOP
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That's because the screeching pays the bills, and might be less full-throated if he actually knew anything for real. Studied ignorance = $$$
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But think how much money she'll save. OTOH, nothing new from the genius from Louisiana.
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Certainly true of that made for public consumption. Likely true of that created for political strategy in private.
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On the other hand, maybe he gets to the convinience store on a D-9
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The officials who repair (and plow in my cold area) the roads are literally the most important rural functionaries.
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In other news, that should be reprinted every day in place of this glurge, the head of FEMA didn't realize there was a hurricane season.
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Brahms once responded to a listener who asked “Herr Brahms. What were you trying to say in that piece?” by sitting back down at the piano and playing it again