America Jones

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Friday, March 16, 2007

Failure in Iraq?

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Our multi-headed National Strategy for Victory in Iraq is organized around " Eight Pillars ." These "Eight Pillars" rep...
Wednesday, March 14, 2007

A Poem for Lulabell, Sweet Petunia

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green to the cripple’s wilderness, a newcomer sees ash as soil... where abominations of animate stone lie senseless before the sea, far beyo...
Sunday, March 11, 2007

What Are We Really Doing in Iraq?

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The Admministration has given the Citizenry of the United States of America varied and malleable rationale for our invasion and occupation ...
Wednesday, March 07, 2007

On the Importance of Media Literacy

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We teach our children to spell, we teach them to take tests, we teach them about the imperceptible atoms and molecules that make up the mate...
Friday, March 02, 2007

Hidden Costs of the Iraq War

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Advancements in battlefield medical care have reduced the number of deaths suffered by wounded U.S. soldiers relative to previous military ...
Friday, February 23, 2007

Rationale for the Iraq War

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One reason President Bush gave as justification for an invasion of Iraq was the imminent threat that Saddam Hussein would give weapons of m...
Wednesday, February 21, 2007

Taxation Without Representation

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The reason the National Security Agency wants to read your email is because they are trying to use algorithms to detect terrorist activity...
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Monday, February 19, 2007

Art is Not the Tablescraps of Commerce.

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Julio GarcĂ­a Espinosa has argued against the refined “reactionary” arts, and for a revolutionary art which is “no longer interested in qual...
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Friday, February 16, 2007

Diversity in American Politics

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I feel like race is something that everybody in America has to live with, but which many people feel as though, in order to discuss it with ...
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Tuesday, February 06, 2007

Who is Being Brainwashed?

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Regarding recent articles on government "mind control" in The Washington Post and on Wired : An important area of operation for c...
Sunday, February 04, 2007

The Game Show and the Collective Good

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The television game show provides an interesting perspective into the American psyche. In considering why viewers tune in -- what the attra...
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Saturday, February 03, 2007

Texture and Object: on Grounding Channel-Surfing as a Visual Motif

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1. The aesthetics of Modernism can generally be characterized by a formal preoccupation with novelty, polyphony, fragmentation, and the brea...
Wednesday, January 31, 2007

An Open Letter to Lulabell Petunia, by America Jones

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sometimes too much hurt for sleep, toss cigarettes at dawn into the troubled darkness... a flower a stone inkblots on paper and silence like...
Thursday, January 25, 2007

The Modern Contemplative in Wartime

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It is difficult to live the life of a contemplative in an age so fraught with strife, iniquity, and callousness. History, replete though it...
Wednesday, January 24, 2007

Ouroboros Meditation

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America Jones was born the day the burning building, the burning bush. Was first the crow to cross the birth, broke the window flat on floo...
Tuesday, January 23, 2007

More Questions than Answers

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Is it too much to ask that our President pronounce " nuclear " correctly? Is this perhaps some strange metaphor for the nature of ...

Oligopoly IS Free Market Economies

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As American schoolchildren, we are taught that in traditional free-market Capitalism, producers compete for consumers by making a better pro...
Saturday, January 20, 2007

fragment of fragments of a heuristic anaphora

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of two or more successive verses, clauses, or sentences. Compare epistrophe (def. 1), symploce. (s. Of frang...
Tuesday, January 16, 2007

A Living Doctrine

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When one is consumed with War one can see no hope for Peace, but only that immediate victory with which one secures a stronger position for ...
Monday, January 15, 2007

On the Symbolism of Dr. King's National Memorial

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When one considers Dr. King, I think it is important to separate the Man from the Icon. Although the Man may be considered flawed in some wa...
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