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Created: September 23, 2006
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Topic of the Week:

Progressive Is American

Many conservatives are discovering that financial policies that ignore the plight of the worker, worldwide, are not in keeping with America's belief in equality of opportunity and a government by all the people for all the people. Republicans, Democrats, Greens, Independents, of which only two, Republicans and Democrats have any real hope of election under our present electoral system. Money that buys influence with corrupt lobbyists and tit for tat exchange to give special benefits to special people and special races and ethnic groups and special regions: these are not principles that we, as Americans, stand for. From now on, I'm going to stick to just calling myself an American. Time was when that didn't need explanation. Time to take my real identity back. I'm an American. I think about what that stands for. And power and influence won't make me stand for things that are clearly to me not American. Those things will be different for lots of us. But we're still Americans, and we stand together. jeanne

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Current Events Discussion Topics:

• Syllabus for Moot Court Fall 2006

• My Theory of Everything - jeanne's serial novel sand box, in which you're invited to play. Poetry welcome, as well as stories.

Visual Sociology

Museo de la Casa Nacional de Moneda

• The Virgin in Christianity Comments on problems of colonialization and the finding of indigenous identity to follow. jeanne

  A painting of the Virgin Mary from the 1730’s by the Bolivian artist Louis Niño.

• Beginning of jeanne's Public Art Series: Arnold the Red:
  

  Arnold the Red 001

  

  Arnold the Red Project Brochure Cover

• This Can't Be Love

  By Carl Zimmer. New York Times, Tuesday, September 5, 2006, at p. D1. Backup Here's an example of how science, like every other authority, must keep searching, keep thinking, remain open to new information. The scientists thought the praying mantis ate her mate because she needed the food to produce her young. The late Dr. Jay Gould of Harvard, pointed out that we try to hard to explain everything by evolution; maybe the male mantis doesn't altruistically offer himself for food as a way to insuring the survival of his species; maybe the female is very near-sighted and mistakes the poor male for prey.(ibid, at. p. D1). Read the article. It's a tad gruesome, but I've highlighted sections that remind us of our need to keep an open mind about, well, about almost everything. jeanne

  I know this is a gruesome topic. There's the female praying mantis, praying for a male to reproduce here species, or for dinner? And there he is landed on top of her, risking his life. But the photographs, taken together, say something beautiful in the apparent harmony of the two mantises, in the gesture of their forelegs, which to us symbolizes prayer, in the delicacy and soft coloring of their bodies. Albert Borgmann, a philosopher of technology, I think would suggest that it is in moments like this that we are able to see the "focality," the "spirituality" of nature and reality that show us the path toward building our lives around that beauty and sprituality, and using technology to support such lives of living and loving. (Hans Achterhuis, ed. American Philosophy of Technology: The Empirical Turn, Indiana University Press, Bloomington. 2001. ISBN: 0-253-21449-1 (paper). Chapter 1: Albert Borgmann: Technology and the Character of Everyday Life, by Pieter Tijmes, pp. 11-36.)

  Albert Borgmann Regents Professor of Philosophy, University of Montana.

  I started playing with the colors. But I'm not sure where this is going. They're beginning to remind me of dancers. Maybe that was what attracted me at first. Try playing withthe photo yourself. Then compare to the dance invitatiion that came this week:

  

A Range of Sources on Global Info

Left/Right Perspectives - Cursor - New York Times - The National Review
Arts and Letters Daily - The Economist - The Sierra Club - The Guardian
Wall Street Journal - The Weekly Standard - The Nation - The Cato Institute (Libertarian)
BBC NEWS | Americas - truthout - Museum of Tolerance, Los Angeles
Los Angeles Times - Chicago Tribune - La Opinion - The Washington Post
Cursor's Al Jazeera Archive - Ha'aretz - Palestine Monitor - Palestine Report
The American Prospect

Memorandum, Political Web - Diggs - College Network of New York Times - New York Times Learning Network

The American Enterprise Institute

Indymedia - Mother Jones - BBC News - New Profile - KPFK Progressive Radio
Progressive Sociologists Network Environmental Working Group - Mirror of Justice

Theory, Policy, Practice of a Career by jeanne and Susan.
Digital Dissertations, with abstracts online. Has search mechanism with keywords, author, etc.
Journal of the Evangelical Theological Society
Online articles.
Evangelical Philosophical Society
The Center for Economic and Policy Research (CEPR)

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