Chomsky and Political Dissidence

Due to my recent interest in Noam Chomsky, I am beginning to worry more and more about the state of U.S. politics. Chomsky argues that the U.S. is not a democracy, but rather a polyarchy whereby power is held by a small oligarchic ruling class. This class, for Chomsky, is the business class which [...]

Transportation Difficulties: What is the Real Problem?

This morning I walked into my favorite local coffee shop, the Rocket, and purchased my usual americano, sat down, and picked up a copy of the Pacific Northwest Inlander. The Inlander is a local paper that serves Eastern Washington and North Idaho. Flipping past the pages filled with the usual periodical banalities and curious [...]

Craig’s Top 10 Songs

I have for the first time produced a list of favorite all-time songs. Included below is my top-10 and a few honorable mentions.
1. Black – Pearl Jam
2. Where the Streets Have No Name – U2
3. Glosoli – Sigur Ros
4. Disarm – The Smashing Pumpkins
5. Heart-shaped Box – Nirvana
6. Alive – Pearl Jam
7. Pride – U2
8. [...]

Obama Wins Big in Washington State

Yesterday at 1 PM, my friend Jason and I strolled into the LWSD building in Redmond to participate in our Democratic caucus. I don’t think that we expected such a turnout. The place was packed and it appeared that mostly everyone was for Obama. You could feel the excitement, which was partially due to [...]

The Secret: Where Capitalism Meets Metaphysics

I just viewed the free 20 minute version of “The Secret” because I wanted to make sure that the entire movie would be worth purchasing; after only seconds I realized that this film does not even deserve to be purchased. Apparently “The Secret” is not supposed to be a comedy, but I that didn’t [...]

Sickness and Death in the Anthropology of Capitalism

Towards the closing of Stanley Hauerwas’ work, A Better Hope, my attention was grasped a short chapter on sickness and death. Hauerwas provoked me to consider why our Western construal of death so often discloses a desire for a quick and painless death. We desire a quick death to avoid consciousness of what is [...]

Evan Almighty: A Biblical Recontextualization

In a comical and Bible-pun-filled film, Steve Carell and his bewildered family participate in a Hollywood retelling of the Genesis flood account. I was quite surprised to see Carell in this family-friendly film that is definitely safe for the less-than-40-year-old-virgin-eyes. The movie was entertaining and full of clever biblical allusions and other witty features [...]

Techno-Subjectivity: ‘Facing’ Inauthentic Alterity

Before I begin my little diatribe against particular communicatory devices, I would just like to say that they are very annoying. Whether I’m walking in a store or standing in line at a coffee shop someone with a bluetooth phone in their ear starts talking away, and I wonder if they are talking to [...]