I will preface this year’s final analysis with a bold conjecture: Society needs the shit kicked out of it. There may not be much left afterward. A bold conjecture, aimed squarely at broad-based ignorance. Ignorance to the reality of living in captivity. Ignorance to a world at the mercy of systems. Ignorance to freedom being [...]
Posts Tagged ‘political’
15 November 2008
Separation of powers
Separation of powers Not to be confused with Balance of power or Division of powers. List of politics topics Consent of the governed Politics by country Politics by subdivision Political economy Political history Political philosophy Political science International relations (theory) Political scientists Comparative politics Public administration Bureaucracy (street-level) Separation of powers LegislatureExecutiveJudiciary Sovereignty Theories of political behavior Subseries Elections
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29 October 2008
Annual Reading
One of several great works that I read every year: The Social Responsibility of Business is to Increase its Profits by Milton Friedman The New York Times Magazine, September 13, 1970. Copyright @ 1970 by The New York Times Company. When I hear businessmen speak eloquently about the “social responsibilities of business in a free-enterprise [...]
5 September 2008
What Belongs to Caesar?
What Belongs to Caesar? by Mark R. Crovelli Posted on 9/2/2008 Render Unto Caesar: Serving the Nation by Living Our Catholic Beliefs in Political Life, By Charles J. Chaput. As a former parishioner of the Cathedral of the Immaculate Conception in Denver who has had the pleasure of attending scores of masses presided over by [...]
6 August 2008
Women and Politics - Cutting Through the Nonsense
Cross-posted from The Global Sociology Blog. Echidne has a great article over at Alternet regarding the non-sensical and stupid thesis that there are few women in politics because they do not have the ambition, drive and thick skin to face the political world. In other words, states the stupid thesis, they have an inner glass [...]
