Monthly Archives: September 2007

Almost two years…

By Frank Paynter | Published: September 27, 2007

Since memer drew the curtain at this place. Fortunately he was reincarnated. Now what’s going on with BMO? It’s been almost a month since he posted.

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Pyrrhonic Crisis

By Frank Paynter | Published: September 27, 2007

In Feudal society absolute truth was provided by divine authority. However as this fell from legitimacy, there was a brief lag before the enlightenment produced the nation-state and science as the new sources of absolute truth. Some guys will rip off anything in order to do twenty posts in twenty minutes.

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Jon Garfunkel

By Frank Paynter | Published: September 27, 2007

Jon has always been gracious and courteous to me, so a few years ago when he asked for my reflections on a lengthy series he did called “The New Gatekeepers,” I pretty much declined comment. (In truth, he may have winkled a reaction out of me, and if he did I hope the reaction was [...]

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Soylent diesel…

By Frank Paynter | Published: September 27, 2007

Biodiesel advocates suggest that their products are neutral when it comes to greenhouse gas emissions, because they release no more CO2 than the plants from which they are made processed out of the atmosphere while they grew. I was sold when I heard that. I went shopping for a Peugeot. No luck. All the insightful [...]

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Identity and Place

By Frank Paynter | Published: September 27, 2007

It was 1989 and I was driving an Intel 80286, what we called a “PC AT,” running DOS. I had the media for a unix installation drifting around in the piles on my desk, but never quite got around to installing it. Just as well. All I needed was the word processor, the spread sheet, [...]

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Assignment Zero

By Frank Paynter | Published: September 27, 2007

Assignment Zero (Beta) had a June 5th deadline. Wonder if they made it.

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In defense of class struggle

By Frank Paynter | Published: September 27, 2007

Class consciousness… I think most people have their share. Each of us has a sense of where we fit in the hierarchy. Some people have upper middle class attitudes and achievements to demonstrate that they’ve earned the right. Others of us have a smaller sense of ourselves. I, for example, am petit bourgeois with proletariat [...]

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Wisconsin Dells

By Frank Paynter | Published: September 27, 2007

I’m looking hard at NDN stuff… Leonard Peltier, the Hochunk Nation here in wisconsin… the “good old days” when the Hochunk (or the Winnebagos as they were then known) would line up for their cash payments after the nightly ceremonial dances for the tourists at Wisconsin Dells… and how did all this inform my understanding [...]

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