Required Reading
- What’s Your Problem with Joe Biden?
- Dirty Rubles: An Introduction to Trump/Russia (My New Book)
- Youth for the President
- A Summary of the Conspiracy Against the United States
- Trump: the Good, the Bad, and the Ugly (Part 3)
- Postcards from the Resistance, Vol. 8: Mother of All
- From Lance Armstrong to Trump: The Rise & Fall of the Deified Narcissist
- Reading Malcolm X in Texas
- Playing the Donald Trump Game
- President Rapist: Women Under Trump
- An Open Letter to My Fellow Liberals
- The Democrats Can’t Win If They Won’t Fight
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Category Archives: Philosophy
Beyond Good and Evil
Give evil a chance. We can’t do any worse, can we? Continue reading
U2: All That You Can’t Leave Behind
Everyone else may hate U2, but Kurt Baumeister will always love them in spite of themselves. Continue reading
Looking Back at the Abyss: Reflections on Binge-Watching “Hannibal”
Binge-watching Hannibal gets to be a pretty harrowing affair. Hear why. Continue reading
Prisons In America: Incarceration as Political Philosophy
In the second installment of this 2-part series, Sean Beaudoin and Meg Worden discuss the prison system in America, looking at the Prison Industrial Complex as a highly intentional system of control, as well as a rarely-examined political philosophy. Continue reading
Bigger Than Jesus: The Gospel of U2, Leonard Cohen, and Sufjan Stevens
Robert Burke Warren goes deep into his own story to talk about the persistence of God in pop, and how and why non-believers and doubting Thomases still go for it. Continue reading
Posted in Current Events, Memoir, Monday Rock City, Music, Philosophy, Popped Culture, Religion, The Arts, The Weeklings, Uncategorized
Tagged Bono, carrie and lowell, fleshtones, God, i'm your man, Jesus, Leonard Cohen, religion, robert burke warren, shalom fellowship, Sufjan Stevens, the edge, u2
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In Defense of Disco
At its height, the “Disco Sucks” movement drew fifty-nine thousand people to a Chicago stadium to watch a shock jock explode LPs, inciting a full-on riot of mostly white dudes. WTF? Our Robert Burke Warren, who became enamored of disco in the lusty confines of a Catholic school broom closet, writes about the music that arrived at the same time as his teens, and how it inspired him. Continue reading
Posted in Cinema, Memoir, Monday Rock City, Music, Philosophy, Popped Culture, Popular Culture, Religion, Sex, The Weeklings, Uncategorized
Tagged Atlanta, Bee Gees, catholic school, catholicism, Disco, disco demolition night, disco sucks, homophobia, Madonna, memoir, queer, racism, robert burke warren, saturday night fever, travolta
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Project Ex: Why I Talk About The Extraordinary and Why I Want You To Do the Same
Bona fide High Frequency Responder Suzanne Clores talks about the extraordinary experiences that bind us all. An extraordinary experience can stop your breathing, advance your heart rate, raise your temperature and even trigger the vagus nerve, leaving you in a heap, she says. And it’s high time we gave the ole amygdala some credit and embraced the weird. Cause really, it’s not so weird at all. It may just be science. Continue reading
Posted in Philosophy, Religion, Science, Uncategorized
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