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John

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My Interests

Music:

I don't do music

Television:

I like Mythbusters, FarScape, Firefly, Angel, the new Battlestar Galactica, The Colbert Report, Doctor Who, Futurama, Little Britain, Monty Python's Flying Circus, the Chaser's War on Everything, and maybe some others.

My Blog

That I Cant Write

I just arrived back at Sonoma State University for the spring semester and the first thing I did was to check my mailbox for a financial aid check or last semester's final paycheck. None of those were...
Posted by John on Sun, 27 Jan 2008 03:24:00 PST

Capitalism

The OED defines capitalism as "a system which favors the existence of capitalists." What, then, are capitalists? Capitalists, according to the same source, have "accumulated capital" or have "capital ...
Posted by John on Sat, 03 May 2008 02:01:00 PST

Defending Milton Friedman

Just for fun, I was crawling through the web looking for interesting stuff about neoliberalism--the policy that everybody loves to hate. I wanted to learn more about how people felt on this issue, who...
Posted by John on Fri, 30 May 2008 10:30:00 PST

Graduation

So as you've probably already figured out, I graduated this past Saturday. The ceremony was a disaster due to drip-drips dropping and an ordeal for everyone without an umbrella who had to stand soakin...
Posted by John on Thu, 29 May 2008 07:29:00 PST

What I Have to Get Done Before I Graduate

First, in my first class... What was it again? Um, let's see, Monday is the first day of the week, so that must be Anthropological Theory... In Anthrological Theory I have a paper to write on statism,...
Posted by John on Sat, 26 Apr 2008 12:26:00 PST

Like Most Writing, this Post is About Writing

With final projects coming up soon, most of which involve a written paper, it's become obvious to me that I'll need to practice organizing and collecting my thoughts. Towards that end, despite the fac...
Posted by John on Wed, 16 Apr 2008 03:41:00 PST

Wept

You’ll be happy to hear that I somehow managed to pass the WEPT. The second time must be the charm. Now I can once again think seriously about graduating.
Posted by John on Thu, 03 Apr 2008 09:56:00 PST

Anti-Bolivarianism in South America

Hugo Chavez likes to portray himself as a successor to the Liberator, Simon Bolivar. Of course, nothing could be farther from the truth. Chavez’s attempts to dress his regime up with the trappin...
Posted by John on Fri, 14 Mar 2008 02:34:00 PST

Modesto in the News

One of the surprises of the early primary schedule is that California suddenly matters to the election of the President. It feels a little weird. I'm still not used to seeing the national media care a...
Posted by John on Wed, 06 Feb 2008 09:35:00 PST

And So On

As an addendum to the last post, it turns I out I will have another opportunity to pass the WEPT before graduation.
Posted by John on Fri, 01 Feb 2008 01:13:00 PST