Name: Dirtgrain
Weblog: www.dirtgrain.com/weblog
Articles: 39
First Published: Saturday, December 13, 2003
Last Published: Thursday, December 16, 2004
Currently listing articles 39-1:
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Extreme Makeover: Home Edition Charity or Corporate Propaganda?— ...
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Time Catches Up With Serial Toe-Licker— It has taken me thirty-some years to figure out what I want to do with my life, and now they have to go and shoot
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Eyes Without a Face— A man lives in Ypsilanti whose fate is to go through life terribly disfigured after a failed attempt to commit suicide by shooting himself.
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"Peace President"— When you throw something out there as an extreme absurdity and it actually happens, what do you do? Does it mean the end of
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We Are the Free?— They are still out there monitoring you, tracking you, telling you what to do, what to view, and what to think. Our lack of
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End Corporate Personhood— "Criminal: A person with predatory instincts who has not sufficient capital to form a corporation." — Clarence Darrow
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Bush Helped Al-Qaida— Al-Qaida has more than 18,000 potential terrorists scattered around the world and the war in Iraq is swelling its ranks
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GOP Convention Schedule— ...
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Emotion Versus Logic in Responding to Berg's Beheading— Quit being so damn illogical. Don't let emotions cloud your judgement. Killing others in retaliation for a killing--even one so hideous as was
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Culture Cops Go After Exposed Butt Cracks— We have already achieved a certain level of denial that the offending private parts are there. All we have to do is match our
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Iraq - It's Not So Good After All— "How many Nagasaki Nuclear Bombs equal the Radiation loosed in the 2003 Iraq war? Answer: About 250,000 Nuclear Bombs."
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What Should Schools Teach?— Reflect on your educational experiences. What should have been taught that wasn't? What should not have been taught? What did you forget?
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Spreading "Democracy" and the Resistance of Real Democracies— ...
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Modern-Day Inquisitors— McCarthyism is lurking in the depths of our government, surfacing frequently in post-9/11 America.
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What Poets Do and Don't Do--Maybe— ...
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Fight for Peace— "They fought for different policies. But for the same principles. For freedom. And the freedom to live in peace?" What the
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German Beer Drinking Songs— ...
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Technology Corrupts Teaching: Students Sentenced to PowerPoint Tedium— ...
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Racial Inequlity vs. Economic Inequality— Lani Guinier visited the University of Michigan on Martin Luther King, Jr. Day. She gave a speech in which she emphasized that poverty is
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Pope Strokes Cheney's Dove— ...
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Psychopathic Corporations and a Splinter in My Mind— "Corporate capitalism is fundamentally at odds with life. It is not even against our lives and for its own long-term survival; the logic of profit
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"thirteen"— There is no happy ending, the character is never enlightened--rather, she descends into darkness. Is this what most teenage girls go through?
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Conspiracy - Fake Trees— ...
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Should I Teach?— A reader asked me if he should become a teacher considering all the negatives he hears about teaching. I offer a heartfelt response.
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Spaceballs and Ice Pirates Were Prophetic— ...
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US Writers Spread the US Gospel, The Pope vs. Sun Tzu, and Ron Jeremy is America?— ...
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FDR Speech Is a Must-Read, a "Rendezvous with Destiny"— ...
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The Assault on Labor Unions, Workers and Non-Rich Americans
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The Right To Protest— Thursday's upcoming Frontline has "exclusive interviews detailing the systematic torture and execution of students opposed to the current regime" in Iran.
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School Vouchers Suck— The poor inner-city kids will be stuck in the poor inner city.
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American Culture Jeopardized by Corporations?— Please give me evidence of ways in which unique culture exists in America beyond the influence of corporations.
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Chicken Little Conservatives and a Failure of Reverence— ...
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Why the Lower Case, bell hooks? Tree Bresson? e.e. cummings?— Tree Bresson chooses "to treat [herself] as a part of the sentence, no greater or lesser than any other part, to be capitalized at the
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The Movie Equilibrium— Gun kata kung fu, Matrix style, with all of the trappings of 1984.
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On Being Offended— How not to be offended by Rev. Fred Phelps' anti-gay protests, Alex Smith's journal ridiculing his principal, and that bastard kid who yells at you
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"What Music?" Extended Response— ...
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Education, Globalization and the Big Business Model— Applying the big business model to our school systems. NAFTA? Enron? Halliburton? The Big Three?
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Badmovies.org— A website with clips from many B-movies.
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Me Talk Pretty One Day by David Sedaris— A reader response to Sedaris's chapter about the terd that would not go away.
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