Category: Journalism
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Homeless Assistance — How to solve the housing crisis
I seldom write about our nonprofit work on here for various reasons, but I want to talk about homeless assistance and how to solve the homeless crisis with faithful love. For eight years or so, we’ve hosted monthly salons at our house as a maker’s day. We’ve done it every Third Saturday. If you’re in…
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How can I road trip like Steinbeck Travels with Charley?
You know how in my reviews of LJ’s novel and FC’s novel both, I talked about how I feel like I owe people all the time? How I feel horrible when I don’t read a friend’s book? That goes double for books I’m gifted. That — I am delighted to say — was not the case for…
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Bad Intellectual: The Houellebecqian Case of Catherine Perez-Shakdam
Alors, les Français sont en train de flatter l’islam bien.Sadegh Hedayat Once, one of the Iranian politicians in the Parliament of Iran during his speech accounted a brief conversation with arteshbod Hossein Fardoust, some years after 1979. Fardoust was a friend of Shah and one of the most influential figures of SAVAK—in the last meeting…
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Homelessness in Santa Cruz, California and the Quest for Community
There is an entire school of thought dedicated to understanding the relationship between desire and disgust. French psychoanalyst Jacques Lacan proposes that desire has little to do with the material; instead, desire is created under the influence of social structures and strictures, an imagined version of reality.[1] Conversely, French philosopher Julia Kristeva studies disgust through…