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Expendables

Friar Z. posted an article on Apple of Doubt - Aug 15, 2010, 9:15 pm
The movie was simply incoherent. None of the characters are fleshed out or well constructed. They’re not really constructed at all. Little bits and pieces of personality are thrown in the audience face (Yin Yang’s “family”, the lucky ring, cauliflower ears, and so on) without ever return...
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Doubt, Indecision, & Judiciousness

Friar Z. posted an article on Apple of Doubt - Jul 29, 2010, 12:00 pm
Be these people either Conservatives or Socialists, Yellows or Reds, the most important thing is — and that is the point I want to stress — that all of them are right in the plain and moral sense of the word. . . I ask whether it is not possible to see in the present social conflict of the worl...
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How to Argue with Andrew Breitbart

Friar Z. posted an article on Apple of Doubt - Jul 22, 2010, 4:02 pm
Courtesy of Conor Friedersdorf
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The Two Party System at Work

Friar Z. posted an article on Apple of Doubt - Jul 22, 2010, 3:42 pm
Liberals: X is an even bigger problem now. The solution Y3 is an urgent national priority. Conservatives: The Founders would hate Y3. It’s European. In other words, socialist. Why doesn’t anyone care about how many people Mao killed? Voters: Yeah, why doesn’t anyone care about how many peopl...
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Undeserved Rewards

Friar Z. posted an article on Apple of Doubt - Jul 15, 2010, 1:30 pm
Online PhD
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Ecclesiates 1:9

Friar Z. posted an article on Apple of Doubt - Jun 22, 2010, 8:45 pm
The thing that hath been, it is that which shall be; and that which is done is that which shall be done: and there is no new thing under the sun.
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Big Butter Jesus Melts

Friar Z. posted an article on Apple of Doubt - Jun 15, 2010, 12:03 pm
“I can’t believe Jesus was struck,” said his brother, who noted the giant Hustler Hollywood sign for the adult store across the street was untouched. “It’s the last thing I expected to happen.”
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Soccer Season

Friar Z. posted an article on Apple of Doubt - Jun 12, 2010, 1:00 pm
To an outsider, the notion that a two hour football game only consists of 11 minutes of televised action must seem absurd… Maybe the contrast between the short, frenetic play of American athletes and the fluid build-up of a European soccer match offers some insight into our respective cultural ps...
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The Ouroboros Elsewhere

Friar Z. posted an article on Apple of Doubt - Jun 10, 2010, 12:30 pm
I’ve been cruising that lovely chunk of the blogoshpere that sits somewhere south of the Libertarian suburbs and west of the anarchist meat packing district. Home to a bewildering array of eccentrics and mad geniuses it’s a fun place that I’ve come to enjoy so much that I’m occasionally temp...
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Isaiah Berlin in Black & White

Friar Z. posted an article on Apple of Doubt - Jun 9, 2010, 12:30 pm
Men cannot live without seeking to describe and explain the universe to themselves. The models they use in doing this must deeply affect their lives, not least when they are unconscious; much of the misery and frustration of men is due to the mechanical and unconscious, as well as deliberate, applic...
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Endowing the Electorate

Friar Z. posted an article on Apple of Doubt - May 20, 2010, 1:00 pm
The electoral system is far and away the biggest cause of the nightmare that is politics in the United States, and the biggest impediment to any improvement. Single Member District Plurality Voting virtually ensures that the fear-mongering, emotional appeals, upapologetic tribalism, and supernatural...
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I want to be Freddie deBoer when I grow up

Friar Z. posted an article on Apple of Doubt - May 6, 2010, 1:00 pm
Essentially I believe that our political concerns should involve maintaining radical non-normative civil liberties and discursive space, while providing for the amelioration of human suffering through the use of government action. I don’t think that human beings are basically good, nor do I believ...
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The Virtues of Political Apathy

Friar Z. posted an article on Apple of Doubt - Apr 15, 2010, 6:15 pm
A great deal has changed for me these past five years. These past three really. Not the least of which have been my political ideals and the way I approach politics. It’s a subject worthy of a blog post I would say and I’ll add it to the pile. For now I present to you this excerpt from ...
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Kentucky's Biblical Literacy Bill

Friar Z. posted an article on Apple of Doubt - Dec 31, 1969, 7:00 pm
This is the letter I sent to my Kentucky state representative regarding the proposed Biblical Literacy bill. I am writing as a concerned constituent to express my disappointment with the progress of Senate Bill 142. I feel that the passage of this bill has very little to do with teaching the histor...
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A Tale about Minnie the Moocher

Friar Z. posted an article on Apple of Doubt - Dec 31, 1969, 7:00 pm
It was the year I was eighteen and my brother had begun his love affair with all things Irish. He was making good money and his then wife brought a second stream of revenue into the house which left him with more money than he seemed to know what to do with. After the big screen tv and the full drum...
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