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Surrealpolitik….

Making foul-tasting lemonade out of the unavoidable radishes and turnips forced upon us all by our democracy. Politics ingested, digested, and expelled in one seamless unfurling motion.

Waving My Dick in the Wind – The Non-Nudist Naked Freedom-Loving Nude Beach Review

by Jason Thomas Kocher August 19th, 2010 Culture » Philosophy » Politics » Society »

There will come a time when everybody
Who is lonely will be free…
To sing & dance & love (dance and love)

There will come a time when every evil
That we know will be an evil…
That we can rise above (rise above)

Who cares if you’re so poor you can’t afford
To buy a pair of mod a go-go stretch-elastic pants…
There will come a time [...]

The Obscenity of Obscenity Laws

by Jason Thomas Kocher July 17th, 2010 Culture » Philosophy » Politics » Society »

Here is a call to outlaw Obscenity Laws on the grounds that they are the only obscenity.

Full Disclosure: I don’t feel that I am defined by these things…but I do like sex…and I do like porn…

…and for me, the question of whether something is artistic or not is moot. In less controversial realms, I think Revenge of the Nerds and [...]

The Libertarian Socialist – Up With People and Down on None

by Jason Thomas Kocher March 24th, 2010 Politics »

It may well be true that very many self-described libertarians tend to be of a such a stubborn independent bent that they themselves might suffer from their aversion to community. However, adopting the life of a cane-shaking, iconoclastic hermit is not necessary of or necessarily connected to the philosophy of libertarianism.

Libertarianism is not a personal philosophy. It is a philosophy [...]

As Always When Being Reformed

by Jason Thomas Kocher March 21st, 2010 Politics »

I do not think people can actually communicate with one another and that it is only an inescapable phenomenon of our unique capabilities of perception, whereby were we to view our interactions with different faculties we would see ourselves somewhat more accurately as communicating about as well as wooden blocks do tumbling against one another in a basket.

But I [...]

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