Ceisteanna

My favorite Mellencamp album Scarecrow.

It makes me rather maudlin to think how far we’ve fallen since the shitty 80s. Fuck. Motherfuckers. Really? You choose to sink further and further into the mire of idiocy? For selfish individuality and a God given right to hate your neighbor? I’m serious. You fuckers would rather work your finger to the bone to make the rich richer than raise a hand to help a neighbor.

Here’s a few snippets of lyrics that stood out for me tonight:

• “You are young, and you are the future, so suck it up and tough it out, and be the best you can.”

• “Sometimes I feel so helpless I don’t know where to start. The face of the nation I don’t recognize it no more”

• “He was born on the fourth day of July so his parents called him Independence Day. He married a girl named Justice who gave birth to a son called Nation. Then she walked away.”

• “And hypocrite used to be such a big word to you, and it don’t seem to mean anything to you now”

• “I know the American people paid a high price for justice, and I don’t know why. Nobody seems to know why…We’ve got to start respecting this world, or it’s gonna turn around and bite off our face.”

the Republican State Leadership Committee released a report boasting that the only reason the GOP controls the House of Representatives is because they gerrymandered congressional districts in blue states

Cedarville University in Cedarville, OH, is facing some trying times. The administration (specifically, the academic vice president) has announced its intention to cut the philosophy program and fire one or both philosophy professors (Dr. Dave Mills [Penn State], and Dr. Shawn Graves [Rochester]). The move is ostensibly to save money, but the numbers don’t add up- the philosophy program turns a profit and Drs. Mills and Graves sell more credit hours per-professor than most other departments on campus. The university has recently undertaken efforts to become more fundamentalist, and I fear the philosophy program is just the latest casualty of this movement. Drs. Mills and Graves are outstanding men who both embody the ideals of community. They teach their students to think critically and interact charitably with all arguments and positions; I have the utmost respect for them as academics and teachers. Additionally, both have served their community often literally with the coats off their backs. Put simply, they don’t deserve this and Cedarville needs a philosophy program. Students and alumni (including myself) have started a protest movement. We’ve started a [1] blog and a [2] petition ; I would encourage any of you who are interested to contribute to the former and sign the latter. The office of the academic vice president (Dr. Tom Cornman) can be reached at (937) 766-7770. Additionally, if any of you are university professors or similar, I would encourage you to spread word of our plight. We need all the publicity and help we can get. -schneidmaster

(Source: reddit.com)