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Alaska, Arctic, Aurora Borealis, Lights, Night, North, Northern Lights, Sky, Winter. Looking toward town. It’s been awhile since I have posted anything, and we are now in 24-hour sunlight here in Barrow, so I am missing the light displays we had this winter. The northern lights don’t always make a substantial showing up this way,but this
TOM HORN DIED FOR YOUR SINS That's right! Tom Horn died for your sins I know, Custer died for your sins. I'm not so sure about Jesus. But Tom Horn and George Armstrong Custer definitely died for your sins. If you are American anyway. Tom Horn definitely died for your sins. SPOILER ALERT! I “SEWARD’S FOLLY” BY ANY OTHER TREE As a leader of the Taant’a kwáan Teikweidí clan, Ebbits welcomed Seward according to local custom, granting to Seward the honors due to a another great leader. A feast was give in Seward’s honor and gifts were given to him. Then Seward went on his way. It’s the going-on-his-way part that is a AN AMERICAN FLAG AS A WEAPON, REDUX. This iconic photo, “ The Soiling of Old Glory ,” captures a moment in the busing riots of 1976. This time the flag wielder was a student upset that his friends would be bused away in an effort to desegregate the schools. His target wasn’t a cop, it was a random African-American. Luckily, he missed!THE DEAD SOUTH
Banjo Odyssey, Florence and the Machine, Guns N' Roses, Kiss With a Fist, Lyrics, One in a Million, Smack My Bitch Up, The Dead South, The Prodigy. Got any guilty pleasures? Accident only knows, I sure do. Some of my favorites involve song lyrics. Don’t get me wrong here; there are plenty of off-color lyrics that I wouldn’t think twiceabout.
FAKE PATRIOTS AND FAKE GEORGE WASHINGTON QUOTES It’s popular. I mean, it’s REALLY popular! And it’s fake. To be a bit more specific, the first 11 words of this quote are from the fourth paragraph of George Washington’s first address to Congress. Everything after that has been doctored so as to make it into aDAVE ESHELMAN
What fascinates me most about this story is the role that one guard, Dave Eshelman, played in setting the tone for the experiment. If the experiment was designed to illustrate the dehumanizing characteristics of power, Eshelman’s behavior took that message to 11. Aside from the possibility that his decisions may have thrown the whole studyA MAN CALLED HORSE
A Man Called Horse. Let us begin this installment with the quintessential white Indian of the 1970s. In A MAN CALLED HORSE (1970), Richard Harris plays an Englishman named John Morgan. Captured by a Sioux-speaking tribe known as the Yellow Hand, he is humiliated and used as a horse (hence the name). But Morgan proves himself anable warrior
KIVGIQ | NORTHIERTHANTHOU Alaska, Barrow, Celebration, Dance, Drumming, Festival, Inupiat, Kivgiq, New year. As I mentioned in the last post, my favorite dance at Kivgiq is the Box Drum Dance. As it happens, I got a decent set of videos from a performance of the Barrow Dancers. By ‘decent’ I of course mean for a random guy sitting in the stands with an okay sortaBANJO ODYSSEY
ATTENTION EVERYONE: We would just like to clear the air over some recent online discussion concerning our song, “Banjo Odyssey”. There have been a number of people concerned that the song is about rape, and that the song condones non-consensual sex.NORTHIERTHANTHOU
Alaska, Arctic, Aurora Borealis, Lights, Night, North, Northern Lights, Sky, Winter. Looking toward town. It’s been awhile since I have posted anything, and we are now in 24-hour sunlight here in Barrow, so I am missing the light displays we had this winter. The northern lights don’t always make a substantial showing up this way,but this
TOM HORN DIED FOR YOUR SINS That's right! Tom Horn died for your sins I know, Custer died for your sins. I'm not so sure about Jesus. But Tom Horn and George Armstrong Custer definitely died for your sins. If you are American anyway. Tom Horn definitely died for your sins. SPOILER ALERT! I “SEWARD’S FOLLY” BY ANY OTHER TREE As a leader of the Taant’a kwáan Teikweidí clan, Ebbits welcomed Seward according to local custom, granting to Seward the honors due to a another great leader. A feast was give in Seward’s honor and gifts were given to him. Then Seward went on his way. It’s the going-on-his-way part that is a AN AMERICAN FLAG AS A WEAPON, REDUX. This iconic photo, “ The Soiling of Old Glory ,” captures a moment in the busing riots of 1976. This time the flag wielder was a student upset that his friends would be bused away in an effort to desegregate the schools. His target wasn’t a cop, it was a random African-American. Luckily, he missed!THE DEAD SOUTH
Banjo Odyssey, Florence and the Machine, Guns N' Roses, Kiss With a Fist, Lyrics, One in a Million, Smack My Bitch Up, The Dead South, The Prodigy. Got any guilty pleasures? Accident only knows, I sure do. Some of my favorites involve song lyrics. Don’t get me wrong here; there are plenty of off-color lyrics that I wouldn’t think twiceabout.
FAKE PATRIOTS AND FAKE GEORGE WASHINGTON QUOTES It’s popular. I mean, it’s REALLY popular! And it’s fake. To be a bit more specific, the first 11 words of this quote are from the fourth paragraph of George Washington’s first address to Congress. Everything after that has been doctored so as to make it into aDAVE ESHELMAN
What fascinates me most about this story is the role that one guard, Dave Eshelman, played in setting the tone for the experiment. If the experiment was designed to illustrate the dehumanizing characteristics of power, Eshelman’s behavior took that message to 11. Aside from the possibility that his decisions may have thrown the whole studyA MAN CALLED HORSE
A Man Called Horse. Let us begin this installment with the quintessential white Indian of the 1970s. In A MAN CALLED HORSE (1970), Richard Harris plays an Englishman named John Morgan. Captured by a Sioux-speaking tribe known as the Yellow Hand, he is humiliated and used as a horse (hence the name). But Morgan proves himself anable warrior
KIVGIQ | NORTHIERTHANTHOU Alaska, Barrow, Celebration, Dance, Drumming, Festival, Inupiat, Kivgiq, New year. As I mentioned in the last post, my favorite dance at Kivgiq is the Box Drum Dance. As it happens, I got a decent set of videos from a performance of the Barrow Dancers. By ‘decent’ I of course mean for a random guy sitting in the stands with an okay sortaBANJO ODYSSEY
ATTENTION EVERYONE: We would just like to clear the air over some recent online discussion concerning our song, “Banjo Odyssey”. There have been a number of people concerned that the song is about rape, and that the song condones non-consensual sex.NORTHIERTHANTHOU
Alaska, Arctic, Aurora Borealis, Lights, Night, North, Northern Lights, Sky, Winter. Looking toward town. It’s been awhile since I have posted anything, and we are now in 24-hour sunlight here in Barrow, so I am missing the light displays we had this winter. The northern lights don’t always make a substantial showing up this way,but this
“SEWARD’S FOLLY” BY ANY OTHER TREE Don't hate us because we are on holiday! It's a holiday here is Alaska. Seward's Day! "Alaska Purchase" by Fred Anderson Yes, that's right. We celebrate, William Seward, the man who arranged the purchase of Alaska from Russia here in Alaska. We celebrate this MASTER AND COMMANDER KINDA QUEERED Ahh, this is a great review that his inspired me to watch the movie again – it’s been a long time and I had remembered little. However, the ship they used for this movie is anchored in San Diego Harbor, and I often take visitors for a quick sail around the harbor, and I always make a point of sailing by the ship (you can get really close to it from the water side) and point out its TELEVISION: A LOATHE-LIKE RELATIONSHIP Seriously, it’s almost as though some folks just can’t imagine a life without television. Life without TV must be an unfortunate existence, they seem to suppose, and so they respond to clear statements of preference for life without it as if it is a clear cry ROAD TRIP! (ANCHORAGE TO VALDEZ) What we decided to do this time was a quick road trip from Anchorage to Valdez. Of course, getting to Anchorage required a little flying time, but that’s old hat. We had to make a couple purchases for the new place, so that meant staying a couple days in the vicinity of Anchorage, so we found a lovely bed and breakfast in Palmer. THE VILLAGE OF WAINWRIGHT, ALASKA This afternoon, I am looking at pictures of pictures of the village of Wainwright. I have been there a couple times, in the late summers of 2011 and 2012. Wainwright is located on the coast (of course). It has a population of a little over 500, but the first time I visited the place I could have sworn it was a ghost town. THE MURALS OF ESPAÑOLA Regular readers may have noticed already, but when I (and now Moni too) experience a bout of southiness, we frequently do this somewhere in the southwest. Santa Fe is a common destination. We mostly travel through nearby Española on our way up to Taos, Pueblo, but this last summer, we also traveled through on our way up to Ghost Ranch, and that meant going though more of the town. ARTS DISTRICT, LOS ANGELES Art, Arts District, California, Graffiti, Los Angeles, Murals, Painting, Street Art, Travel. Long before Moni and I took to the road to spend this last July in New Mexico, I spent a couple months with her and her family down in San Dimas, California. I’m usually a little lost in big cities. Vegas would be an exception, because it wasonce
WITH APOLOGIES TO THE MOTHS ALONG I-40; MY SUMMER Stays in Vegas, my ass! What happens in Vegas gets bigger, wilder, and more sordid with every retelling of the story! My summer in Vegas might even have included the slaying of giants, for example. Dice might have been involved, but let's not dwell on the details. Other frequent activities included book night. Book club DAMNED LEVEES; THEY BREAKS! I grew up listening to blues. sort of. Like most any white kid in the suburbs of the 70s and 80s, I listened to hard rock. As I got older, I came to understand there was some kind of relationship between the blaring guitars and thundering drums making their way into my ears andthe
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Alaska, Arctic, Aurora Borealis, Lights, Night, North, Northern Lights, Sky, Winter. Looking toward town. It’s been awhile since I have posted anything, and we are now in 24-hour sunlight here in Barrow, so I am missing the light displays we had this winter. The northern lights don’t always make a substantial showing up this way,but this
ABOUT | NORTHIERTHANTHOU About. My name is Dan Wall. I live in Utqiagvik (Barrow), AK, which is the heart of my claims to great Northiness. In times past, I lived in Northern Arizona and worked on the Navajo Nation, but I always wanted to live on a beach, at least I think I did. Just consider me thebearded cat-lady of
TOM HORN DIED FOR YOUR SINS That's right! Tom Horn died for your sins I know, Custer died for your sins. I'm not so sure about Jesus. But Tom Horn and George Armstrong Custer definitely died for your sins. If you are American anyway. Tom Horn definitely died for your sins. SPOILER ALERT! I “SEWARD’S FOLLY” BY ANY OTHER TREE As a leader of the Taant’a kwáan Teikweidí clan, Ebbits welcomed Seward according to local custom, granting to Seward the honors due to a another great leader. A feast was give in Seward’s honor and gifts were given to him. Then Seward went on his way. It’s the going-on-his-way part that is a AN AMERICAN FLAG AS A WEAPON, REDUX. This iconic photo, “ The Soiling of Old Glory ,” captures a moment in the busing riots of 1976. This time the flag wielder was a student upset that his friends would be bused away in an effort to desegregate the schools. His target wasn’t a cop, it was a random African-American. Luckily, he missed! POE’S LAW, THE CIVIL WAR EDITION It occurred during the civil war at a battle in Raymond, Mississippi. Apparently, a minie ball (a conical-shaped bullet commonly used in the era) passed through a Confederate soldier’s testicles and then lodged itself in a young woman’s own private parts. Though, still a virgin, she later gave birth to a baby boy, apparently impregnated byALASKA NATIVES
Rosie the Riveter is one of those proverbial gifts that just keeps on giving. So, was Elizabeth Peratrovich. She would have been a contemporary of the many women who inspired this icon, which makes it just a little more interesting to see her standing in here for the women (whose real name was Naomi Parker) most of us envision when thinking about Rosie.THE DEAD SOUTH
Banjo Odyssey, Florence and the Machine, Guns N' Roses, Kiss With a Fist, Lyrics, One in a Million, Smack My Bitch Up, The Dead South, The Prodigy. Got any guilty pleasures? Accident only knows, I sure do. Some of my favorites involve song lyrics. Don’t get me wrong here; there are plenty of off-color lyrics that I wouldn’t think twiceabout.
DAVE ESHELMAN
What fascinates me most about this story is the role that one guard, Dave Eshelman, played in setting the tone for the experiment. If the experiment was designed to illustrate the dehumanizing characteristics of power, Eshelman’s behavior took that message to 11. Aside from the possibility that his decisions may have thrown the whole studyDANCES WITH WOLVES
This is the story of a white Indian made larger than life and then some. Disturbed by his experiences in the Civil war, John J. Dunbar (Kevin Costner) asks for a post on the frontier and soon finds himself quite alone on the great plains. In time, Dunbar will befriend a localband of Lakota.
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Alaska, Arctic, Aurora Borealis, Lights, Night, North, Northern Lights, Sky, Winter. Looking toward town. It’s been awhile since I have posted anything, and we are now in 24-hour sunlight here in Barrow, so I am missing the light displays we had this winter. The northern lights don’t always make a substantial showing up this way,but this
ABOUT | NORTHIERTHANTHOU About. My name is Dan Wall. I live in Utqiagvik (Barrow), AK, which is the heart of my claims to great Northiness. In times past, I lived in Northern Arizona and worked on the Navajo Nation, but I always wanted to live on a beach, at least I think I did. Just consider me thebearded cat-lady of
TOM HORN DIED FOR YOUR SINS That's right! Tom Horn died for your sins I know, Custer died for your sins. I'm not so sure about Jesus. But Tom Horn and George Armstrong Custer definitely died for your sins. If you are American anyway. Tom Horn definitely died for your sins. SPOILER ALERT! I “SEWARD’S FOLLY” BY ANY OTHER TREE As a leader of the Taant’a kwáan Teikweidí clan, Ebbits welcomed Seward according to local custom, granting to Seward the honors due to a another great leader. A feast was give in Seward’s honor and gifts were given to him. Then Seward went on his way. It’s the going-on-his-way part that is a AN AMERICAN FLAG AS A WEAPON, REDUX. This iconic photo, “ The Soiling of Old Glory ,” captures a moment in the busing riots of 1976. This time the flag wielder was a student upset that his friends would be bused away in an effort to desegregate the schools. His target wasn’t a cop, it was a random African-American. Luckily, he missed! POE’S LAW, THE CIVIL WAR EDITION It occurred during the civil war at a battle in Raymond, Mississippi. Apparently, a minie ball (a conical-shaped bullet commonly used in the era) passed through a Confederate soldier’s testicles and then lodged itself in a young woman’s own private parts. Though, still a virgin, she later gave birth to a baby boy, apparently impregnated byALASKA NATIVES
Rosie the Riveter is one of those proverbial gifts that just keeps on giving. So, was Elizabeth Peratrovich. She would have been a contemporary of the many women who inspired this icon, which makes it just a little more interesting to see her standing in here for the women (whose real name was Naomi Parker) most of us envision when thinking about Rosie.THE DEAD SOUTH
Banjo Odyssey, Florence and the Machine, Guns N' Roses, Kiss With a Fist, Lyrics, One in a Million, Smack My Bitch Up, The Dead South, The Prodigy. Got any guilty pleasures? Accident only knows, I sure do. Some of my favorites involve song lyrics. Don’t get me wrong here; there are plenty of off-color lyrics that I wouldn’t think twiceabout.
DAVE ESHELMAN
What fascinates me most about this story is the role that one guard, Dave Eshelman, played in setting the tone for the experiment. If the experiment was designed to illustrate the dehumanizing characteristics of power, Eshelman’s behavior took that message to 11. Aside from the possibility that his decisions may have thrown the whole studyDANCES WITH WOLVES
This is the story of a white Indian made larger than life and then some. Disturbed by his experiences in the Civil war, John J. Dunbar (Kevin Costner) asks for a post on the frontier and soon finds himself quite alone on the great plains. In time, Dunbar will befriend a localband of Lakota.
ABOUT | NORTHIERTHANTHOU About. My name is Dan Wall. I live in Utqiagvik (Barrow), AK, which is the heart of my claims to great Northiness. In times past, I lived in Northern Arizona and worked on the Navajo Nation, but I always wanted to live on a beach, at least I think I did. Just consider me thebearded cat-lady of
RELIGIOUS FREEDOM AND A GREAT BIG CHURCH! Church may be a good place for prayer, but prayer is something you can do yourself. As to the role of priests, mileage varies. My point is simply that the concept of religious freedom has developed in a tradition in which religion is defined largely in individualistic terms. We can see how religion influences art, education, politics,and so on
MAY | 2021 | NORTHIERTHANTHOU 1 post published by danielwalldammit during May 2021. Looking toward town. It’s been awhile since I have posted anything, and we are now in 24-hour sunlight here in Barrow, so I am missing the light displayswe had this winter.
WEST | NORTHIERTHANTHOU The range wars of the old west claimed the lives of innocent and guilty alike, and Tom Horn had been a willing participant in several of them, yet THIS trial and THIS killing is still a controversy. The question of whether or not Willie Nickell was one of those murdered byHorn is
AN AMERICAN FLAG AS A WEAPON, REDUX. This iconic photo, “ The Soiling of Old Glory ,” captures a moment in the busing riots of 1976. This time the flag wielder was a student upset that his friends would be bused away in an effort to desegregate the schools. His target wasn’t a cop, it was a random African-American. Luckily, he missed! FAKE PATRIOTS AND FAKE GEORGE WASHINGTON QUOTES It’s popular. I mean, it’s REALLY popular! And it’s fake. To be a bit more specific, the first 11 words of this quote are from the fourth paragraph of George Washington’s first address to Congress. Everything after that has been doctored so as to make it into aAND …WINNER!
Right on this corner, I believe For a brief period of my life (in the early 90s), I lived on the south side of Chicago. It was an interesting experience, to say the least. I remember one day seeing a couple young men laughing at one of the local homeless guys. This particular individual was ADDENDUM TO THE LEGACY OF RUSH LIMBAUGH: THE COST OF HIS The likes of Rush Limbaugh, Glenn Beck, Sean Hannity and other insufferable bigots can be characterized as those supremely “vexatious contrarians, provocative shock jocks, opinionated pundits, rabid commentariats”, as quoted from my extensive and analytical post entitled “Misquotation Pandemic and Disinformation Polemic: Mind Pollution by Viral Falsity“.BANJO ODYSSEY
ATTENTION EVERYONE: We would just like to clear the air over some recent online discussion concerning our song, “Banjo Odyssey”. There have been a number of people concerned that the song is about rape, and that the song condones non-consensual sex. AN UNCOMMON SECURITY GUARD: DAVE ESHELMAN, AKA ‘JOHN WAYNE You've probably encountered the Stanford Prison Experiment in your psychology textbook, or perhaps heard about it in some other conversation. Ostensibly a study of the influence of power and authority on human behavior, the experiment (so the story goes) had to be closed down because it was all too successful. Dr. Philip Zimbardoset up
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Alaska, Arctic, Aurora Borealis, Lights, Night, North, Northern Lights, Sky, Winter. Looking toward town. It’s been awhile since I have posted anything, and we are now in 24-hour sunlight here in Barrow, so I am missing the light displays we had this winter. The northern lights don’t always make a substantial showing up this way,but this
ABOUT | NORTHIERTHANTHOU About. My name is Dan Wall. I live in Utqiagvik (Barrow), AK, which is the heart of my claims to great Northiness. In times past, I lived in Northern Arizona and worked on the Navajo Nation, but I always wanted to live on a beach, at least I think I did. Just consider me thebearded cat-lady of
TOM HORN DIED FOR YOUR SINS That's right! Tom Horn died for your sins I know, Custer died for your sins. I'm not so sure about Jesus. But Tom Horn and George Armstrong Custer definitely died for your sins. If you are American anyway. Tom Horn definitely died for your sins. SPOILER ALERT! I AN AMERICAN FLAG AS A WEAPON, REDUX. This iconic photo, “ The Soiling of Old Glory ,” captures a moment in the busing riots of 1976. This time the flag wielder was a student upset that his friends would be bused away in an effort to desegregate the schools. His target wasn’t a cop, it was a random African-American. Luckily, he missed! POE’S LAW, THE CIVIL WAR EDITION It occurred during the civil war at a battle in Raymond, Mississippi. Apparently, a minie ball (a conical-shaped bullet commonly used in the era) passed through a Confederate soldier’s testicles and then lodged itself in a young woman’s own private parts. Though, still a virgin, she later gave birth to a baby boy, apparently impregnated by SOME DAMNED INFAMOUS DUCKS! Those organizing and supporting the duck-in consistently envision a world in which they feed themselves. The modern world complicates both visions, of course, but this was a moment wherein the outside world appears to have forced the issue; as ifAND …WINNER!
Right on this corner, I believe For a brief period of my life (in the early 90s), I lived on the south side of Chicago. It was an interesting experience, to say the least. I remember one day seeing a couple young men laughing at one of the local homeless guys. This particular individual wasALASKA NATIVES
Rosie the Riveter is one of those proverbial gifts that just keeps on giving. So, was Elizabeth Peratrovich. She would have been a contemporary of the many women who inspired this icon, which makes it just a little more interesting to see her standing in here for the women (whose real name was Naomi Parker) most of us envision when thinking about Rosie.DAVE ESHELMAN
What fascinates me most about this story is the role that one guard, Dave Eshelman, played in setting the tone for the experiment. If the experiment was designed to illustrate the dehumanizing characteristics of power, Eshelman’s behavior took that message to 11. Aside from the possibility that his decisions may have thrown the whole studyTHE DEAD SOUTH
Banjo Odyssey, Florence and the Machine, Guns N' Roses, Kiss With a Fist, Lyrics, One in a Million, Smack My Bitch Up, The Dead South, The Prodigy. Got any guilty pleasures? Accident only knows, I sure do. Some of my favorites involve song lyrics. Don’t get me wrong here; there are plenty of off-color lyrics that I wouldn’t think twiceabout.
NORTHIERTHANTHOU
Alaska, Arctic, Aurora Borealis, Lights, Night, North, Northern Lights, Sky, Winter. Looking toward town. It’s been awhile since I have posted anything, and we are now in 24-hour sunlight here in Barrow, so I am missing the light displays we had this winter. The northern lights don’t always make a substantial showing up this way,but this
ABOUT | NORTHIERTHANTHOU About. My name is Dan Wall. I live in Utqiagvik (Barrow), AK, which is the heart of my claims to great Northiness. In times past, I lived in Northern Arizona and worked on the Navajo Nation, but I always wanted to live on a beach, at least I think I did. Just consider me thebearded cat-lady of
TOM HORN DIED FOR YOUR SINS That's right! Tom Horn died for your sins I know, Custer died for your sins. I'm not so sure about Jesus. But Tom Horn and George Armstrong Custer definitely died for your sins. If you are American anyway. Tom Horn definitely died for your sins. SPOILER ALERT! I AN AMERICAN FLAG AS A WEAPON, REDUX. This iconic photo, “ The Soiling of Old Glory ,” captures a moment in the busing riots of 1976. This time the flag wielder was a student upset that his friends would be bused away in an effort to desegregate the schools. His target wasn’t a cop, it was a random African-American. Luckily, he missed! POE’S LAW, THE CIVIL WAR EDITION It occurred during the civil war at a battle in Raymond, Mississippi. Apparently, a minie ball (a conical-shaped bullet commonly used in the era) passed through a Confederate soldier’s testicles and then lodged itself in a young woman’s own private parts. Though, still a virgin, she later gave birth to a baby boy, apparently impregnated by SOME DAMNED INFAMOUS DUCKS! Those organizing and supporting the duck-in consistently envision a world in which they feed themselves. The modern world complicates both visions, of course, but this was a moment wherein the outside world appears to have forced the issue; as ifAND …WINNER!
Right on this corner, I believe For a brief period of my life (in the early 90s), I lived on the south side of Chicago. It was an interesting experience, to say the least. I remember one day seeing a couple young men laughing at one of the local homeless guys. This particular individual wasALASKA NATIVES
Rosie the Riveter is one of those proverbial gifts that just keeps on giving. So, was Elizabeth Peratrovich. She would have been a contemporary of the many women who inspired this icon, which makes it just a little more interesting to see her standing in here for the women (whose real name was Naomi Parker) most of us envision when thinking about Rosie.DAVE ESHELMAN
What fascinates me most about this story is the role that one guard, Dave Eshelman, played in setting the tone for the experiment. If the experiment was designed to illustrate the dehumanizing characteristics of power, Eshelman’s behavior took that message to 11. Aside from the possibility that his decisions may have thrown the whole studyTHE DEAD SOUTH
Banjo Odyssey, Florence and the Machine, Guns N' Roses, Kiss With a Fist, Lyrics, One in a Million, Smack My Bitch Up, The Dead South, The Prodigy. Got any guilty pleasures? Accident only knows, I sure do. Some of my favorites involve song lyrics. Don’t get me wrong here; there are plenty of off-color lyrics that I wouldn’t think twiceabout.
ABOUT | NORTHIERTHANTHOU About. My name is Dan Wall. I live in Utqiagvik (Barrow), AK, which is the heart of my claims to great Northiness. In times past, I lived in Northern Arizona and worked on the Navajo Nation, but I always wanted to live on a beach, at least I think I did. Just consider me thebearded cat-lady of
RELIGIOUS FREEDOM AND A GREAT BIG CHURCH! Church may be a good place for prayer, but prayer is something you can do yourself. As to the role of priests, mileage varies. My point is simply that the concept of religious freedom has developed in a tradition in which religion is defined largely in individualistic terms. We can see how religion influences art, education, politics,and so on
WEST | NORTHIERTHANTHOU The range wars of the old west claimed the lives of innocent and guilty alike, and Tom Horn had been a willing participant in several of them, yet THIS trial and THIS killing is still a controversy. The question of whether or not Willie Nickell was one of those murdered byHorn is
AND …WINNER!
Right on this corner, I believe For a brief period of my life (in the early 90s), I lived on the south side of Chicago. It was an interesting experience, to say the least. I remember one day seeing a couple young men laughing at one of the local homeless guys. This particular individual was FAKE PATRIOTS AND FAKE GEORGE WASHINGTON QUOTES It’s popular. I mean, it’s REALLY popular! And it’s fake. To be a bit more specific, the first 11 words of this quote are from the fourth paragraph of George Washington’s first address to Congress. Everything after that has been doctored so as to make it into a THE PRAYER OF AN ATHEIST Okay, believers, you got us! Atheism really is a religion after all. Yes, I know, some of us have been denying it for years, but I personally just can't keep up the pretense. I am tired of living a lie, and I must confess to the true nature of my beliefs. I have toopen
ADDENDUM TO THE LEGACY OF RUSH LIMBAUGH: THE COST OF HIS The likes of Rush Limbaugh, Glenn Beck, Sean Hannity and other insufferable bigots can be characterized as those supremely “vexatious contrarians, provocative shock jocks, opinionated pundits, rabid commentariats”, as quoted from my extensive and analytical post entitled “Misquotation Pandemic and Disinformation Polemic: Mind Pollution by Viral Falsity“. WHAT DOES IT MEAN TO LIKE SOMETHING? "I like this!" You'd think a sentence like that would have a pretty clear meaning, wouldn't you? If that whole 3 word sentence is a little complex, then surely the single word "like" must convey something pretty simple and obvious. Unless it doesn't. But before I go on to suggest what I mean by that,BANJO ODYSSEY
ATTENTION EVERYONE: We would just like to clear the air over some recent online discussion concerning our song, “Banjo Odyssey”. There have been a number of people concerned that the song is about rape, and that the song condones non-consensual sex. AN UNCOMMON SECURITY GUARD: DAVE ESHELMAN, AKA ‘JOHN WAYNE You've probably encountered the Stanford Prison Experiment in your psychology textbook, or perhaps heard about it in some other conversation. Ostensibly a study of the influence of power and authority on human behavior, the experiment (so the story goes) had to be closed down because it was all too successful. Dr. Philip Zimbardoset up
NORTHIERTHANTHOU
Alaska, Arctic, Aurora Borealis, Lights, Night, North, Northern Lights, Sky, Winter. Looking toward town. It’s been awhile since I have posted anything, and we are now in 24-hour sunlight here in Barrow, so I am missing the light displays we had this winter. The northern lights don’t always make a substantial showing up this way,but this
ABOUT | NORTHIERTHANTHOU About. My name is Dan Wall. I live in Utqiagvik (Barrow), AK, which is the heart of my claims to great Northiness. In times past, I lived in Northern Arizona and worked on the Navajo Nation, but I always wanted to live on a beach, at least I think I did. Just consider me thebearded cat-lady of
TOM HORN DIED FOR YOUR SINS That's right! Tom Horn died for your sins I know, Custer died for your sins. I'm not so sure about Jesus. But Tom Horn and George Armstrong Custer definitely died for your sins. If you are American anyway. Tom Horn definitely died for your sins. SPOILER ALERT! I AN AMERICAN FLAG AS A WEAPON, REDUX. This iconic photo, “ The Soiling of Old Glory ,” captures a moment in the busing riots of 1976. This time the flag wielder was a student upset that his friends would be bused away in an effort to desegregate the schools. His target wasn’t a cop, it was a random African-American. Luckily, he missed! POE’S LAW, THE CIVIL WAR EDITION It occurred during the civil war at a battle in Raymond, Mississippi. Apparently, a minie ball (a conical-shaped bullet commonly used in the era) passed through a Confederate soldier’s testicles and then lodged itself in a young woman’s own private parts. Though, still a virgin, she later gave birth to a baby boy, apparently impregnated by SOME DAMNED INFAMOUS DUCKS! Those organizing and supporting the duck-in consistently envision a world in which they feed themselves. The modern world complicates both visions, of course, but this was a moment wherein the outside world appears to have forced the issue; as ifAND …WINNER!
Right on this corner, I believe For a brief period of my life (in the early 90s), I lived on the south side of Chicago. It was an interesting experience, to say the least. I remember one day seeing a couple young men laughing at one of the local homeless guys. This particular individual wasALASKA NATIVES
Rosie the Riveter is one of those proverbial gifts that just keeps on giving. So, was Elizabeth Peratrovich. She would have been a contemporary of the many women who inspired this icon, which makes it just a little more interesting to see her standing in here for the women (whose real name was Naomi Parker) most of us envision when thinking about Rosie.DAVE ESHELMAN
What fascinates me most about this story is the role that one guard, Dave Eshelman, played in setting the tone for the experiment. If the experiment was designed to illustrate the dehumanizing characteristics of power, Eshelman’s behavior took that message to 11. Aside from the possibility that his decisions may have thrown the whole studyTHE DEAD SOUTH
Banjo Odyssey, Florence and the Machine, Guns N' Roses, Kiss With a Fist, Lyrics, One in a Million, Smack My Bitch Up, The Dead South, The Prodigy. Got any guilty pleasures? Accident only knows, I sure do. Some of my favorites involve song lyrics. Don’t get me wrong here; there are plenty of off-color lyrics that I wouldn’t think twiceabout.
NORTHIERTHANTHOU
Alaska, Arctic, Aurora Borealis, Lights, Night, North, Northern Lights, Sky, Winter. Looking toward town. It’s been awhile since I have posted anything, and we are now in 24-hour sunlight here in Barrow, so I am missing the light displays we had this winter. The northern lights don’t always make a substantial showing up this way,but this
ABOUT | NORTHIERTHANTHOU About. My name is Dan Wall. I live in Utqiagvik (Barrow), AK, which is the heart of my claims to great Northiness. In times past, I lived in Northern Arizona and worked on the Navajo Nation, but I always wanted to live on a beach, at least I think I did. Just consider me thebearded cat-lady of
TOM HORN DIED FOR YOUR SINS That's right! Tom Horn died for your sins I know, Custer died for your sins. I'm not so sure about Jesus. But Tom Horn and George Armstrong Custer definitely died for your sins. If you are American anyway. Tom Horn definitely died for your sins. SPOILER ALERT! I AN AMERICAN FLAG AS A WEAPON, REDUX. This iconic photo, “ The Soiling of Old Glory ,” captures a moment in the busing riots of 1976. This time the flag wielder was a student upset that his friends would be bused away in an effort to desegregate the schools. His target wasn’t a cop, it was a random African-American. Luckily, he missed! POE’S LAW, THE CIVIL WAR EDITION It occurred during the civil war at a battle in Raymond, Mississippi. Apparently, a minie ball (a conical-shaped bullet commonly used in the era) passed through a Confederate soldier’s testicles and then lodged itself in a young woman’s own private parts. Though, still a virgin, she later gave birth to a baby boy, apparently impregnated by SOME DAMNED INFAMOUS DUCKS! Those organizing and supporting the duck-in consistently envision a world in which they feed themselves. The modern world complicates both visions, of course, but this was a moment wherein the outside world appears to have forced the issue; as ifAND …WINNER!
Right on this corner, I believe For a brief period of my life (in the early 90s), I lived on the south side of Chicago. It was an interesting experience, to say the least. I remember one day seeing a couple young men laughing at one of the local homeless guys. This particular individual wasALASKA NATIVES
Rosie the Riveter is one of those proverbial gifts that just keeps on giving. So, was Elizabeth Peratrovich. She would have been a contemporary of the many women who inspired this icon, which makes it just a little more interesting to see her standing in here for the women (whose real name was Naomi Parker) most of us envision when thinking about Rosie.DAVE ESHELMAN
What fascinates me most about this story is the role that one guard, Dave Eshelman, played in setting the tone for the experiment. If the experiment was designed to illustrate the dehumanizing characteristics of power, Eshelman’s behavior took that message to 11. Aside from the possibility that his decisions may have thrown the whole studyTHE DEAD SOUTH
Banjo Odyssey, Florence and the Machine, Guns N' Roses, Kiss With a Fist, Lyrics, One in a Million, Smack My Bitch Up, The Dead South, The Prodigy. Got any guilty pleasures? Accident only knows, I sure do. Some of my favorites involve song lyrics. Don’t get me wrong here; there are plenty of off-color lyrics that I wouldn’t think twiceabout.
ABOUT | NORTHIERTHANTHOU About. My name is Dan Wall. I live in Utqiagvik (Barrow), AK, which is the heart of my claims to great Northiness. In times past, I lived in Northern Arizona and worked on the Navajo Nation, but I always wanted to live on a beach, at least I think I did. Just consider me thebearded cat-lady of
RELIGIOUS FREEDOM AND A GREAT BIG CHURCH! Church may be a good place for prayer, but prayer is something you can do yourself. As to the role of priests, mileage varies. My point is simply that the concept of religious freedom has developed in a tradition in which religion is defined largely in individualistic terms. We can see how religion influences art, education, politics,and so on
WEST | NORTHIERTHANTHOU The range wars of the old west claimed the lives of innocent and guilty alike, and Tom Horn had been a willing participant in several of them, yet THIS trial and THIS killing is still a controversy. The question of whether or not Willie Nickell was one of those murdered byHorn is
AND …WINNER!
Right on this corner, I believe For a brief period of my life (in the early 90s), I lived on the south side of Chicago. It was an interesting experience, to say the least. I remember one day seeing a couple young men laughing at one of the local homeless guys. This particular individual was FAKE PATRIOTS AND FAKE GEORGE WASHINGTON QUOTES It’s popular. I mean, it’s REALLY popular! And it’s fake. To be a bit more specific, the first 11 words of this quote are from the fourth paragraph of George Washington’s first address to Congress. Everything after that has been doctored so as to make it into a THE PRAYER OF AN ATHEIST Okay, believers, you got us! Atheism really is a religion after all. Yes, I know, some of us have been denying it for years, but I personally just can't keep up the pretense. I am tired of living a lie, and I must confess to the true nature of my beliefs. I have toopen
ADDENDUM TO THE LEGACY OF RUSH LIMBAUGH: THE COST OF HIS The likes of Rush Limbaugh, Glenn Beck, Sean Hannity and other insufferable bigots can be characterized as those supremely “vexatious contrarians, provocative shock jocks, opinionated pundits, rabid commentariats”, as quoted from my extensive and analytical post entitled “Misquotation Pandemic and Disinformation Polemic: Mind Pollution by Viral Falsity“. WHAT DOES IT MEAN TO LIKE SOMETHING? "I like this!" You'd think a sentence like that would have a pretty clear meaning, wouldn't you? If that whole 3 word sentence is a little complex, then surely the single word "like" must convey something pretty simple and obvious. Unless it doesn't. But before I go on to suggest what I mean by that,BANJO ODYSSEY
ATTENTION EVERYONE: We would just like to clear the air over some recent online discussion concerning our song, “Banjo Odyssey”. There have been a number of people concerned that the song is about rape, and that the song condones non-consensual sex. AN UNCOMMON SECURITY GUARD: DAVE ESHELMAN, AKA ‘JOHN WAYNE You've probably encountered the Stanford Prison Experiment in your psychology textbook, or perhaps heard about it in some other conversation. Ostensibly a study of the influence of power and authority on human behavior, the experiment (so the story goes) had to be closed down because it was all too successful. Dr. Philip Zimbardoset up
NORTHIERTHANTHOU
Alaska, Arctic, Aurora Borealis, Lights, Night, North, Northern Lights, Sky, Winter. Looking toward town. It’s been awhile since I have posted anything, and we are now in 24-hour sunlight here in Barrow, so I am missing the light displays we had this winter. The northern lights don’t always make a substantial showing up this way,but this
ABOUT | NORTHIERTHANTHOU About. My name is Dan Wall. I live in Utqiagvik (Barrow), AK, which is the heart of my claims to great Northiness. In times past, I lived in Northern Arizona and worked on the Navajo Nation, but I always wanted to live on a beach, at least I think I did. Just consider me thebearded cat-lady of
TOM HORN DIED FOR YOUR SINS That's right! Tom Horn died for your sins I know, Custer died for your sins. I'm not so sure about Jesus. But Tom Horn and George Armstrong Custer definitely died for your sins. If you are American anyway. Tom Horn definitely died for your sins. SPOILER ALERT! I AN AMERICAN FLAG AS A WEAPON, REDUX. This iconic photo, “ The Soiling of Old Glory ,” captures a moment in the busing riots of 1976. This time the flag wielder was a student upset that his friends would be bused away in an effort to desegregate the schools. His target wasn’t a cop, it was a random African-American. Luckily, he missed! POE’S LAW, THE CIVIL WAR EDITION It occurred during the civil war at a battle in Raymond, Mississippi. Apparently, a minie ball (a conical-shaped bullet commonly used in the era) passed through a Confederate soldier’s testicles and then lodged itself in a young woman’s own private parts. Though, still a virgin, she later gave birth to a baby boy, apparently impregnated by SOME DAMNED INFAMOUS DUCKS! Those organizing and supporting the duck-in consistently envision a world in which they feed themselves. The modern world complicates both visions, of course, but this was a moment wherein the outside world appears to have forced the issue; as ifAND …WINNER!
Right on this corner, I believe For a brief period of my life (in the early 90s), I lived on the south side of Chicago. It was an interesting experience, to say the least. I remember one day seeing a couple young men laughing at one of the local homeless guys. This particular individual wasALASKA NATIVES
Rosie the Riveter is one of those proverbial gifts that just keeps on giving. So, was Elizabeth Peratrovich. She would have been a contemporary of the many women who inspired this icon, which makes it just a little more interesting to see her standing in here for the women (whose real name was Naomi Parker) most of us envision when thinking about Rosie.DAVE ESHELMAN
What fascinates me most about this story is the role that one guard, Dave Eshelman, played in setting the tone for the experiment. If the experiment was designed to illustrate the dehumanizing characteristics of power, Eshelman’s behavior took that message to 11. Aside from the possibility that his decisions may have thrown the whole studyTHE DEAD SOUTH
Banjo Odyssey, Florence and the Machine, Guns N' Roses, Kiss With a Fist, Lyrics, One in a Million, Smack My Bitch Up, The Dead South, The Prodigy. Got any guilty pleasures? Accident only knows, I sure do. Some of my favorites involve song lyrics. Don’t get me wrong here; there are plenty of off-color lyrics that I wouldn’t think twiceabout.
NORTHIERTHANTHOU
Alaska, Arctic, Aurora Borealis, Lights, Night, North, Northern Lights, Sky, Winter. Looking toward town. It’s been awhile since I have posted anything, and we are now in 24-hour sunlight here in Barrow, so I am missing the light displays we had this winter. The northern lights don’t always make a substantial showing up this way,but this
ABOUT | NORTHIERTHANTHOU About. My name is Dan Wall. I live in Utqiagvik (Barrow), AK, which is the heart of my claims to great Northiness. In times past, I lived in Northern Arizona and worked on the Navajo Nation, but I always wanted to live on a beach, at least I think I did. Just consider me thebearded cat-lady of
TOM HORN DIED FOR YOUR SINS That's right! Tom Horn died for your sins I know, Custer died for your sins. I'm not so sure about Jesus. But Tom Horn and George Armstrong Custer definitely died for your sins. If you are American anyway. Tom Horn definitely died for your sins. SPOILER ALERT! I AN AMERICAN FLAG AS A WEAPON, REDUX. This iconic photo, “ The Soiling of Old Glory ,” captures a moment in the busing riots of 1976. This time the flag wielder was a student upset that his friends would be bused away in an effort to desegregate the schools. His target wasn’t a cop, it was a random African-American. Luckily, he missed! POE’S LAW, THE CIVIL WAR EDITION It occurred during the civil war at a battle in Raymond, Mississippi. Apparently, a minie ball (a conical-shaped bullet commonly used in the era) passed through a Confederate soldier’s testicles and then lodged itself in a young woman’s own private parts. Though, still a virgin, she later gave birth to a baby boy, apparently impregnated by SOME DAMNED INFAMOUS DUCKS! Those organizing and supporting the duck-in consistently envision a world in which they feed themselves. The modern world complicates both visions, of course, but this was a moment wherein the outside world appears to have forced the issue; as ifAND …WINNER!
Right on this corner, I believe For a brief period of my life (in the early 90s), I lived on the south side of Chicago. It was an interesting experience, to say the least. I remember one day seeing a couple young men laughing at one of the local homeless guys. This particular individual wasALASKA NATIVES
Rosie the Riveter is one of those proverbial gifts that just keeps on giving. So, was Elizabeth Peratrovich. She would have been a contemporary of the many women who inspired this icon, which makes it just a little more interesting to see her standing in here for the women (whose real name was Naomi Parker) most of us envision when thinking about Rosie.DAVE ESHELMAN
What fascinates me most about this story is the role that one guard, Dave Eshelman, played in setting the tone for the experiment. If the experiment was designed to illustrate the dehumanizing characteristics of power, Eshelman’s behavior took that message to 11. Aside from the possibility that his decisions may have thrown the whole studyTHE DEAD SOUTH
Banjo Odyssey, Florence and the Machine, Guns N' Roses, Kiss With a Fist, Lyrics, One in a Million, Smack My Bitch Up, The Dead South, The Prodigy. Got any guilty pleasures? Accident only knows, I sure do. Some of my favorites involve song lyrics. Don’t get me wrong here; there are plenty of off-color lyrics that I wouldn’t think twiceabout.
ABOUT | NORTHIERTHANTHOU About. My name is Dan Wall. I live in Utqiagvik (Barrow), AK, which is the heart of my claims to great Northiness. In times past, I lived in Northern Arizona and worked on the Navajo Nation, but I always wanted to live on a beach, at least I think I did. Just consider me thebearded cat-lady of
RELIGIOUS FREEDOM AND A GREAT BIG CHURCH! Church may be a good place for prayer, but prayer is something you can do yourself. As to the role of priests, mileage varies. My point is simply that the concept of religious freedom has developed in a tradition in which religion is defined largely in individualistic terms. We can see how religion influences art, education, politics,and so on
WEST | NORTHIERTHANTHOU The range wars of the old west claimed the lives of innocent and guilty alike, and Tom Horn had been a willing participant in several of them, yet THIS trial and THIS killing is still a controversy. The question of whether or not Willie Nickell was one of those murdered byHorn is
AND …WINNER!
Right on this corner, I believe For a brief period of my life (in the early 90s), I lived on the south side of Chicago. It was an interesting experience, to say the least. I remember one day seeing a couple young men laughing at one of the local homeless guys. This particular individual was FAKE PATRIOTS AND FAKE GEORGE WASHINGTON QUOTES It’s popular. I mean, it’s REALLY popular! And it’s fake. To be a bit more specific, the first 11 words of this quote are from the fourth paragraph of George Washington’s first address to Congress. Everything after that has been doctored so as to make it into a THE PRAYER OF AN ATHEIST Okay, believers, you got us! Atheism really is a religion after all. Yes, I know, some of us have been denying it for years, but I personally just can't keep up the pretense. I am tired of living a lie, and I must confess to the true nature of my beliefs. I have toopen
ADDENDUM TO THE LEGACY OF RUSH LIMBAUGH: THE COST OF HIS The likes of Rush Limbaugh, Glenn Beck, Sean Hannity and other insufferable bigots can be characterized as those supremely “vexatious contrarians, provocative shock jocks, opinionated pundits, rabid commentariats”, as quoted from my extensive and analytical post entitled “Misquotation Pandemic and Disinformation Polemic: Mind Pollution by Viral Falsity“. WHAT DOES IT MEAN TO LIKE SOMETHING? "I like this!" You'd think a sentence like that would have a pretty clear meaning, wouldn't you? If that whole 3 word sentence is a little complex, then surely the single word "like" must convey something pretty simple and obvious. Unless it doesn't. But before I go on to suggest what I mean by that,BANJO ODYSSEY
ATTENTION EVERYONE: We would just like to clear the air over some recent online discussion concerning our song, “Banjo Odyssey”. There have been a number of people concerned that the song is about rape, and that the song condones non-consensual sex. AN UNCOMMON SECURITY GUARD: DAVE ESHELMAN, AKA ‘JOHN WAYNE You've probably encountered the Stanford Prison Experiment in your psychology textbook, or perhaps heard about it in some other conversation. Ostensibly a study of the influence of power and authority on human behavior, the experiment (so the story goes) had to be closed down because it was all too successful. Dr. Philip Zimbardoset up
NORTHIERTHANTHOU
Alaska, Arctic, Aurora Borealis, Lights, Night, North, Northern Lights, Sky, Winter. Looking toward town. It’s been awhile since I have posted anything, and we are now in 24-hour sunlight here in Barrow, so I am missing the light displays we had this winter. The northern lights don’t always make a substantial showing up this way,but this
ABOUT | NORTHIERTHANTHOU About. My name is Dan Wall. I live in Utqiagvik (Barrow), AK, which is the heart of my claims to great Northiness. In times past, I lived in Northern Arizona and worked on the Navajo Nation, but I always wanted to live on a beach, at least I think I did. Just consider me thebearded cat-lady of
TOM HORN DIED FOR YOUR SINS That's right! Tom Horn died for your sins I know, Custer died for your sins. I'm not so sure about Jesus. But Tom Horn and George Armstrong Custer definitely died for your sins. If you are American anyway. Tom Horn definitely died for your sins. SPOILER ALERT! I AN AMERICAN FLAG AS A WEAPON, REDUX. This iconic photo, “ The Soiling of Old Glory ,” captures a moment in the busing riots of 1976. This time the flag wielder was a student upset that his friends would be bused away in an effort to desegregate the schools. His target wasn’t a cop, it was a random African-American. Luckily, he missed! POE’S LAW, THE CIVIL WAR EDITION It occurred during the civil war at a battle in Raymond, Mississippi. Apparently, a minie ball (a conical-shaped bullet commonly used in the era) passed through a Confederate soldier’s testicles and then lodged itself in a young woman’s own private parts. Though, still a virgin, she later gave birth to a baby boy, apparently impregnated by SOME DAMNED INFAMOUS DUCKS! Those organizing and supporting the duck-in consistently envision a world in which they feed themselves. The modern world complicates both visions, of course, but this was a moment wherein the outside world appears to have forced the issue; as ifAND …WINNER!
Right on this corner, I believe For a brief period of my life (in the early 90s), I lived on the south side of Chicago. It was an interesting experience, to say the least. I remember one day seeing a couple young men laughing at one of the local homeless guys. This particular individual wasALASKA NATIVES
Rosie the Riveter is one of those proverbial gifts that just keeps on giving. So, was Elizabeth Peratrovich. She would have been a contemporary of the many women who inspired this icon, which makes it just a little more interesting to see her standing in here for the women (whose real name was Naomi Parker) most of us envision when thinking about Rosie.DAVE ESHELMAN
What fascinates me most about this story is the role that one guard, Dave Eshelman, played in setting the tone for the experiment. If the experiment was designed to illustrate the dehumanizing characteristics of power, Eshelman’s behavior took that message to 11. Aside from the possibility that his decisions may have thrown the whole studyTHE DEAD SOUTH
Banjo Odyssey, Florence and the Machine, Guns N' Roses, Kiss With a Fist, Lyrics, One in a Million, Smack My Bitch Up, The Dead South, The Prodigy. Got any guilty pleasures? Accident only knows, I sure do. Some of my favorites involve song lyrics. Don’t get me wrong here; there are plenty of off-color lyrics that I wouldn’t think twiceabout.
NORTHIERTHANTHOU
Alaska, Arctic, Aurora Borealis, Lights, Night, North, Northern Lights, Sky, Winter. Looking toward town. It’s been awhile since I have posted anything, and we are now in 24-hour sunlight here in Barrow, so I am missing the light displays we had this winter. The northern lights don’t always make a substantial showing up this way,but this
ABOUT | NORTHIERTHANTHOU About. My name is Dan Wall. I live in Utqiagvik (Barrow), AK, which is the heart of my claims to great Northiness. In times past, I lived in Northern Arizona and worked on the Navajo Nation, but I always wanted to live on a beach, at least I think I did. Just consider me thebearded cat-lady of
TOM HORN DIED FOR YOUR SINS That's right! Tom Horn died for your sins I know, Custer died for your sins. I'm not so sure about Jesus. But Tom Horn and George Armstrong Custer definitely died for your sins. If you are American anyway. Tom Horn definitely died for your sins. SPOILER ALERT! I AN AMERICAN FLAG AS A WEAPON, REDUX. This iconic photo, “ The Soiling of Old Glory ,” captures a moment in the busing riots of 1976. This time the flag wielder was a student upset that his friends would be bused away in an effort to desegregate the schools. His target wasn’t a cop, it was a random African-American. Luckily, he missed! POE’S LAW, THE CIVIL WAR EDITION It occurred during the civil war at a battle in Raymond, Mississippi. Apparently, a minie ball (a conical-shaped bullet commonly used in the era) passed through a Confederate soldier’s testicles and then lodged itself in a young woman’s own private parts. Though, still a virgin, she later gave birth to a baby boy, apparently impregnated by SOME DAMNED INFAMOUS DUCKS! Those organizing and supporting the duck-in consistently envision a world in which they feed themselves. The modern world complicates both visions, of course, but this was a moment wherein the outside world appears to have forced the issue; as ifAND …WINNER!
Right on this corner, I believe For a brief period of my life (in the early 90s), I lived on the south side of Chicago. It was an interesting experience, to say the least. I remember one day seeing a couple young men laughing at one of the local homeless guys. This particular individual wasALASKA NATIVES
Rosie the Riveter is one of those proverbial gifts that just keeps on giving. So, was Elizabeth Peratrovich. She would have been a contemporary of the many women who inspired this icon, which makes it just a little more interesting to see her standing in here for the women (whose real name was Naomi Parker) most of us envision when thinking about Rosie.DAVE ESHELMAN
What fascinates me most about this story is the role that one guard, Dave Eshelman, played in setting the tone for the experiment. If the experiment was designed to illustrate the dehumanizing characteristics of power, Eshelman’s behavior took that message to 11. Aside from the possibility that his decisions may have thrown the whole studyTHE DEAD SOUTH
Banjo Odyssey, Florence and the Machine, Guns N' Roses, Kiss With a Fist, Lyrics, One in a Million, Smack My Bitch Up, The Dead South, The Prodigy. Got any guilty pleasures? Accident only knows, I sure do. Some of my favorites involve song lyrics. Don’t get me wrong here; there are plenty of off-color lyrics that I wouldn’t think twiceabout.
ABOUT | NORTHIERTHANTHOU About. My name is Dan Wall. I live in Utqiagvik (Barrow), AK, which is the heart of my claims to great Northiness. In times past, I lived in Northern Arizona and worked on the Navajo Nation, but I always wanted to live on a beach, at least I think I did. Just consider me thebearded cat-lady of
RELIGIOUS FREEDOM AND A GREAT BIG CHURCH! Church may be a good place for prayer, but prayer is something you can do yourself. As to the role of priests, mileage varies. My point is simply that the concept of religious freedom has developed in a tradition in which religion is defined largely in individualistic terms. We can see how religion influences art, education, politics,and so on
WEST | NORTHIERTHANTHOU The range wars of the old west claimed the lives of innocent and guilty alike, and Tom Horn had been a willing participant in several of them, yet THIS trial and THIS killing is still a controversy. The question of whether or not Willie Nickell was one of those murdered byHorn is
AND …WINNER!
Right on this corner, I believe For a brief period of my life (in the early 90s), I lived on the south side of Chicago. It was an interesting experience, to say the least. I remember one day seeing a couple young men laughing at one of the local homeless guys. This particular individual was FAKE PATRIOTS AND FAKE GEORGE WASHINGTON QUOTES It’s popular. I mean, it’s REALLY popular! And it’s fake. To be a bit more specific, the first 11 words of this quote are from the fourth paragraph of George Washington’s first address to Congress. Everything after that has been doctored so as to make it into a THE PRAYER OF AN ATHEIST Okay, believers, you got us! Atheism really is a religion after all. Yes, I know, some of us have been denying it for years, but I personally just can't keep up the pretense. I am tired of living a lie, and I must confess to the true nature of my beliefs. I have toopen
ADDENDUM TO THE LEGACY OF RUSH LIMBAUGH: THE COST OF HIS The likes of Rush Limbaugh, Glenn Beck, Sean Hannity and other insufferable bigots can be characterized as those supremely “vexatious contrarians, provocative shock jocks, opinionated pundits, rabid commentariats”, as quoted from my extensive and analytical post entitled “Misquotation Pandemic and Disinformation Polemic: Mind Pollution by Viral Falsity“. WHAT DOES IT MEAN TO LIKE SOMETHING? "I like this!" You'd think a sentence like that would have a pretty clear meaning, wouldn't you? If that whole 3 word sentence is a little complex, then surely the single word "like" must convey something pretty simple and obvious. Unless it doesn't. But before I go on to suggest what I mean by that,BANJO ODYSSEY
ATTENTION EVERYONE: We would just like to clear the air over some recent online discussion concerning our song, “Banjo Odyssey”. There have been a number of people concerned that the song is about rape, and that the song condones non-consensual sex. AN UNCOMMON SECURITY GUARD: DAVE ESHELMAN, AKA ‘JOHN WAYNE You've probably encountered the Stanford Prison Experiment in your psychology textbook, or perhaps heard about it in some other conversation. Ostensibly a study of the influence of power and authority on human behavior, the experiment (so the story goes) had to be closed down because it was all too successful. Dr. Philip Zimbardoset up
NORTHIERTHANTHOU
Alaska, Arctic, Aurora Borealis, Lights, Night, North, Northern Lights, Sky, Winter. Looking toward town. It’s been awhile since I have posted anything, and we are now in 24-hour sunlight here in Barrow, so I am missing the light displays we had this winter. The northern lights don’t always make a substantial showing up this way,but this
ABOUT | NORTHIERTHANTHOU About. My name is Dan Wall. I live in Utqiagvik (Barrow), AK, which is the heart of my claims to great Northiness. In times past, I lived in Northern Arizona and worked on the Navajo Nation, but I always wanted to live on a beach, at least I think I did. Just consider me thebearded cat-lady of
TOM HORN DIED FOR YOUR SINS That's right! Tom Horn died for your sins I know, Custer died for your sins. I'm not so sure about Jesus. But Tom Horn and George Armstrong Custer definitely died for your sins. If you are American anyway. Tom Horn definitely died for your sins. SPOILER ALERT! I AN AMERICAN FLAG AS A WEAPON, REDUX. This iconic photo, “ The Soiling of Old Glory ,” captures a moment in the busing riots of 1976. This time the flag wielder was a student upset that his friends would be bused away in an effort to desegregate the schools. His target wasn’t a cop, it was a random African-American. Luckily, he missed! POE’S LAW, THE CIVIL WAR EDITION It occurred during the civil war at a battle in Raymond, Mississippi. Apparently, a minie ball (a conical-shaped bullet commonly used in the era) passed through a Confederate soldier’s testicles and then lodged itself in a young woman’s own private parts. Though, still a virgin, she later gave birth to a baby boy, apparently impregnated byAND …WINNER!
Right on this corner, I believe For a brief period of my life (in the early 90s), I lived on the south side of Chicago. It was an interesting experience, to say the least. I remember one day seeing a couple young men laughing at one of the local homeless guys. This particular individual wasDAVE ESHELMAN
What fascinates me most about this story is the role that one guard, Dave Eshelman, played in setting the tone for the experiment. If the experiment was designed to illustrate the dehumanizing characteristics of power, Eshelman’s behavior took that message to 11. Aside from the possibility that his decisions may have thrown the whole studyTHE DEAD SOUTH
Banjo Odyssey, Florence and the Machine, Guns N' Roses, Kiss With a Fist, Lyrics, One in a Million, Smack My Bitch Up, The Dead South, The Prodigy. Got any guilty pleasures? Accident only knows, I sure do. Some of my favorites involve song lyrics. Don’t get me wrong here; there are plenty of off-color lyrics that I wouldn’t think twiceabout.
DANCES WITH WOLVES
This is the story of a white Indian made larger than life and then some. Disturbed by his experiences in the Civil war, John J. Dunbar (Kevin Costner) asks for a post on the frontier and soon finds himself quite alone on the great plains. In time, Dunbar will befriend a localband of Lakota.
AN UNCOMMON SECURITY GUARD: DAVE ESHELMAN, AKA ‘JOHN WAYNE You've probably encountered the Stanford Prison Experiment in your psychology textbook, or perhaps heard about it in some other conversation. Ostensibly a study of the influence of power and authority on human behavior, the experiment (so the story goes) had to be closed down because it was all too successful. Dr. Philip Zimbardoset up
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Alaska, Arctic, Aurora Borealis, Lights, Night, North, Northern Lights, Sky, Winter. Looking toward town. It’s been awhile since I have posted anything, and we are now in 24-hour sunlight here in Barrow, so I am missing the light displays we had this winter. The northern lights don’t always make a substantial showing up this way,but this
ABOUT | NORTHIERTHANTHOU About. My name is Dan Wall. I live in Utqiagvik (Barrow), AK, which is the heart of my claims to great Northiness. In times past, I lived in Northern Arizona and worked on the Navajo Nation, but I always wanted to live on a beach, at least I think I did. Just consider me thebearded cat-lady of
TOM HORN DIED FOR YOUR SINS That's right! Tom Horn died for your sins I know, Custer died for your sins. I'm not so sure about Jesus. But Tom Horn and George Armstrong Custer definitely died for your sins. If you are American anyway. Tom Horn definitely died for your sins. SPOILER ALERT! I AN AMERICAN FLAG AS A WEAPON, REDUX. This iconic photo, “ The Soiling of Old Glory ,” captures a moment in the busing riots of 1976. This time the flag wielder was a student upset that his friends would be bused away in an effort to desegregate the schools. His target wasn’t a cop, it was a random African-American. Luckily, he missed! POE’S LAW, THE CIVIL WAR EDITION It occurred during the civil war at a battle in Raymond, Mississippi. Apparently, a minie ball (a conical-shaped bullet commonly used in the era) passed through a Confederate soldier’s testicles and then lodged itself in a young woman’s own private parts. Though, still a virgin, she later gave birth to a baby boy, apparently impregnated byAND …WINNER!
Right on this corner, I believe For a brief period of my life (in the early 90s), I lived on the south side of Chicago. It was an interesting experience, to say the least. I remember one day seeing a couple young men laughing at one of the local homeless guys. This particular individual wasDAVE ESHELMAN
What fascinates me most about this story is the role that one guard, Dave Eshelman, played in setting the tone for the experiment. If the experiment was designed to illustrate the dehumanizing characteristics of power, Eshelman’s behavior took that message to 11. Aside from the possibility that his decisions may have thrown the whole studyTHE DEAD SOUTH
Banjo Odyssey, Florence and the Machine, Guns N' Roses, Kiss With a Fist, Lyrics, One in a Million, Smack My Bitch Up, The Dead South, The Prodigy. Got any guilty pleasures? Accident only knows, I sure do. Some of my favorites involve song lyrics. Don’t get me wrong here; there are plenty of off-color lyrics that I wouldn’t think twiceabout.
DANCES WITH WOLVES
This is the story of a white Indian made larger than life and then some. Disturbed by his experiences in the Civil war, John J. Dunbar (Kevin Costner) asks for a post on the frontier and soon finds himself quite alone on the great plains. In time, Dunbar will befriend a localband of Lakota.
AN UNCOMMON SECURITY GUARD: DAVE ESHELMAN, AKA ‘JOHN WAYNE You've probably encountered the Stanford Prison Experiment in your psychology textbook, or perhaps heard about it in some other conversation. Ostensibly a study of the influence of power and authority on human behavior, the experiment (so the story goes) had to be closed down because it was all too successful. Dr. Philip Zimbardoset up
RELIGIOUS FREEDOM AND A GREAT BIG CHURCH! Church may be a good place for prayer, but prayer is something you can do yourself. As to the role of priests, mileage varies. My point is simply that the concept of religious freedom has developed in a tradition in which religion is defined largely in individualistic terms. We can see how religion influences art, education, politics,and so on
“SEWARD’S FOLLY” BY ANY OTHER TREE Don't hate us because we are on holiday! It's a holiday here is Alaska. Seward's Day! "Alaska Purchase" by Fred Anderson Yes, that's right. We celebrate, William Seward, the man who arranged the purchase of Alaska from Russia here in Alaska. We celebrate this MAY | 2021 | NORTHIERTHANTHOU 1 post published by danielwalldammit during May 2021. Looking toward town. It’s been awhile since I have posted anything, and we are now in 24-hour sunlight here in Barrow, so I am missing the light displayswe had this winter.
WEST | NORTHIERTHANTHOU The range wars of the old west claimed the lives of innocent and guilty alike, and Tom Horn had been a willing participant in several of them, yet THIS trial and THIS killing is still a controversy. The question of whether or not Willie Nickell was one of those murdered byHorn is
FAKE PATRIOTS AND FAKE GEORGE WASHINGTON QUOTES It’s popular. I mean, it’s REALLY popular! And it’s fake. To be a bit more specific, the first 11 words of this quote are from the fourth paragraph of George Washington’s first address to Congress. Everything after that has been doctored so as to make it into aAND …WINNER!
Right on this corner, I believe For a brief period of my life (in the early 90s), I lived on the south side of Chicago. It was an interesting experience, to say the least. I remember one day seeing a couple young men laughing at one of the local homeless guys. This particular individual was ADDENDUM TO THE LEGACY OF RUSH LIMBAUGH: THE COST OF HIS The likes of Rush Limbaugh, Glenn Beck, Sean Hannity and other insufferable bigots can be characterized as those supremely “vexatious contrarians, provocative shock jocks, opinionated pundits, rabid commentariats”, as quoted from my extensive and analytical post entitled “Misquotation Pandemic and Disinformation Polemic: Mind Pollution by Viral Falsity“. WHAT DOES IT MEAN TO LIKE SOMETHING? "I like this!" You'd think a sentence like that would have a pretty clear meaning, wouldn't you? If that whole 3 word sentence is a little complex, then surely the single word "like" must convey something pretty simple and obvious. Unless it doesn't. But before I go on to suggest what I mean by that,BANJO ODYSSEY
ATTENTION EVERYONE: We would just like to clear the air over some recent online discussion concerning our song, “Banjo Odyssey”. There have been a number of people concerned that the song is about rape, and that the song condones non-consensual sex. AN UNCOMMON SECURITY GUARD: DAVE ESHELMAN, AKA ‘JOHN WAYNE You've probably encountered the Stanford Prison Experiment in your psychology textbook, or perhaps heard about it in some other conversation. Ostensibly a study of the influence of power and authority on human behavior, the experiment (so the story goes) had to be closed down because it was all too successful. Dr. Philip Zimbardoset up
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INNOCENT UNTIL PROVEN GUILTY* 07 _Thursday_ May 2020 Posted by danielwalldammitin Justice
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Bill Barr , Black LivesMatter , Burden
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, Rules of Engagement Surely, you remember Michael Flynn? I remember him well. I remember him leading the chant of “lock her up” during the 2016 election. I remember him pleading guilty to making false statements tothe FBI.
Well, charges were just dropped against Michael Flynn. They were dropped because MICHAEL FLYNN is innocent until properlyproven guilty.
Do you remember George Zimmerman?I do.
He was the man supposedly acting as neighborhood watch when he took a gun and went in search of Trayvon Martin, because Trayvon looked like was up to no good. I remember George Zimmerman was found not guilty in the subsequent trial. I remember countless right wingers lecturing the rest of us about how George Zimmerman was innocent until proven guilty. Many of those same people now tell us stories about how that thug Trayvon attacked Zimmerman without provocation, forcing Zimmerman to shoot him in self-defense. That’s the story they tell. A story in which Trayvon stands charged, convicted, and executed without a trial. Because George Zimmernan is innocent until proven guilty! Do you remember Brett Kavanaugh?Of course you do.
We are all reminded of Kavanaugh every time the well-stacked right wing Supreme Court delivers a decision. Kavanaugh sits on that court, because he was innocent until proven guilty. Kavanaugh’s accuser Christine Blasey Ford is of course a lying scumbag who made up accusations against Kavanaugh as part of a liberal plot to keep him off the Supreme Court, so I’m told at any rate. She didn’t prove her case in Kavanaugh’s confirmation hearings, and the reason is obvious to those now happy to have him on the court. Christine Blasey Ford is guilty because Brett Kavanaugh is innocent until proven guilty. Do you remember Sandra Bland? She died in the custody of the Sheriff’s Department in Waller County Texas. Nobody was charged, because folks at the Waller County Sheriff’s Department are innocent until proven guilty. How about Timothy Loehmann? He’s the police officer who shot Tamir Rice? He was never prosecuted either, because Timothy Loehmann is innocent until proven guilty. Do you remember Daniel Pantaleo? He’s the police officer who choked Eric Garner to death over loose cigar sales. He wasn’t prosecuted either. Because Daniel Pantaleo is innocent until proven guilty. Do you remember Michael Slager? Okay, that fucker is just guilty! But do you remember Freddie Gray? He died over a pocket knife. All the officers involved in his case were innocent until proven guilty. Yes, they were! How about Philip Brailsford? He shot and killed Daniel Shaver in a Hotel in Arizona. Brailsford was innocent until proven guilty. Now we have the case of Ahmaud Arbery. Oh, don’t worry. he’s not accused of anything. He was just jogging. A black man, out jogging! That’s definitely not a cime. But apparently, a couple white men (Greg McMichael and Travis McMichael) decided that Ahmaud might have been a burglar, so they tracked him down and confronted him with a gun. Now there is some reason to believe Arbery might have been the aggressor at the point he was shot. …twice? What he was doing at that moment we will never know, but I reckon he might have meant to defend himself from two crazy white men with a gun. Such considerations won’t matter in the long run, because the McMichaels are entitled to a fair trial, and such speculation will not be relevant in a fair trial. The McMichaels are both innocent until proven guilty*.Of course.
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HAPPY SEWARD’S DAY! 30 _Monday_ Mar 2020 Posted by danielwalldammitin Alaska
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Alaska , Art
, History
, Ketchikan
, Saxman Park
, Seward Shaming Pole, Totem Pole
, William Seward
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A CANCER OF FREEDOM 05 _Wednesday_ Feb 2020 Posted by danielwalldammitin Politics
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, Health
, Morton Downy Jr.
, Politics
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I always thought Morton Downey Jr.’s cigarette would make a fitting symbol of the modern Republican Party. I remember seeing him blow the smoke into the faces of liberals he would bring on his show to shout at. I remember him using that cigarette as a symbol of defiance, a misguided token of individual freedom standing strong against a world of oppressive liberalism. The dangers of secondary smoke had finally sunk into the public’s mind, and people (not just liberals) were beginning to protect themselves from it. With Americans putting up ‘no smoking’ signs in institutions all across the nation, Mort smoked like a chimney just to spite them. He shared his smoke with others whenever he could, at least when the cameras were rolling, and this obnoxious act of self-destruction, discourtesy, and outright assault helped to define him as a ‘conservative’ voice in the ever more carnival circles of right wing politics. He became a shining star of right wing politics, for a time, riding a wave of support with a cigarette in his hand. And then of course it killed him. As I recall, it was Rush Limbaugh who replaced him when Downey got himself fired from a radio gig in Sacramento California. Rush also replaced Downey in his role as the most prominent right wing loud mouth. Rush got to keep that role way longer than Downey did, and he accomplished way more with it too. Rush substantially transformed ‘conservative’ politics in the age of Clinton (or more to the point, Newt). Through Rush Limbaugh, bigots and bullies everywhere learned to call themselves ‘conservatives,’ and through Rush conservatives learned to lean less on the authority of age-old traditions and enjoy the role of petulant children defying the authority of liberals whenever and whenever possible. Where old-school conservatives would invoke timeless truths as though speaking with an ancient voice, Ditto-heads mocked and sneered like the slackers from the back of the classroom. Limbaugh also took on the role of the public smoker in chief. I don’t recall seeing him blow smoke in anybody’s face, but then again, I don’t recall seeing Rush ever spend much time in the company of those who didn’t share his childish pseudo-conservative politics. What I do remember is countless images of him with a cigar in his hand or in his mouth and a smug look on his face. He too wanted us to know that we couldn’t stop him from smoking. He too wanted everyone to know that we couldn’t stop him from killing himself. He was enjoying his personal freedom and there wasn’t a damned thing wecould do about it.
And of course he was right.
At least he got a Medalout of it.
It isn’t merely that these two clowns have smoked themselves into cancer. Were that the case, I really would consider it their own business. No, what makes this all a matter of public concern is their use of tobacco in fashioning their own self-image. Both used smoking to symbolize right wing politics, to cast their own personal dances with death in the guise of rebellion and to cast efforts to combat the tobacco industry as just so much arrogance by the left. Just as Mort before him, Rush minimized the threats of secondary smoke. He too denied the health risks that smokers impose on others as well as themselves. Limbaugh too celebrated a known health risk on a regular basis, and he too turned it into a disingenuous symbol of rebellion against authority. To hear these professional morons speak, American smokers had become freedom fighters and accomplished healthcare professionals become just another form of meddlesome liberal out to take your freedoms. Sadly, this is hardly an unusual feature of right wing politics, not just the self-destruction part; the taking the rest of us with them part as well. From pollution controls and safety standards throughout industry to the flagrant refusal to address climate change, right wing pseudo-conservative politics embraces countless risks to human health and happiness. They flaunt the half-based idiocy of Sunday-Morning Scientists in answer to the work of dedicated scientific professionals on countless issues of public policy. They consistently do so in the name of personal freedoms and stories about confrontation with left wing authoritarianism. These fuckers will one day kill us all. Mort’s cigarette and Rush’s cigar really are perfect symbols of what American ‘conservatism’ has become.A death cult!
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21 _Tuesday_ Jan 2020 Posted by danielwalldammitin Politics
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, Jobs
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A NEW DECADE ARRIVES 01 _Wednesday_ Jan 2020 Posted by danielwalldammitin Alaska
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Celebration , Dinner, Fireworks
, Happy New Year
, New year
, Photography
, Polar Midnight
, Thanksgiving
, Turkey
Well we started this New Year by correcting an egregious crime. See, my gal, Moni, hadn’t been able to eat much on Thanksgiving. This didn’t stop her from making a great turkey dinner for myself and several of our friends. (Her first time cooking a turkey.) It just prevented her from enjoying it herself. …which was an egregious crime! We corrected that crime tonight. Moni made an even better turkey for New Year’s Eve dinner, and this time she got to eat her share of it. Afterwards, we went on down to the fireworks display for the town. That’s the thing about Barrow. Fireworks aren’t that cool here in July, so we do our fireworks on January 1st, right in the midst of polar midnight. This being the modern age, it didn’t happen without some electronic record of it, so both Moni and I froze our hands for the sake of ontology. It was worth, I think. I got some pictures and Moni caught the whole thing on video. Presented for your enjoyment…(Click to embiggen)
Fireworks 2020 3 I lost count It was delicious (Another pic from Moni)Fireworks 2020 4
(Moni took this one too) Our Spirit animals had a meal as well.Fireworks 2020 5
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Moni took this. (Why this lovely happy woman is with my cranky butt,I will never know.)
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PERSONAL (IR-)RESPONSIBILITY: AN IRRITATION MEDITATION 28 _Saturday_ Dec 2019 Posted by danielwalldammitin Irritation
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Morality , Responsibility, Turning Point USA
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This meme to my left just smacks of good old fashioned common sense, doesn’t it? I mean, who could be against “personal responsibility?” Just reading it makes me want to go take care of something, maybe take responsibility for something wrong even as I fix that very wrong up good, just like a real man oughtta.Then go fly a flag!
Yeah buddy!
Seriously now. The first problem here isn’t that personal responsibility is a bad thing. Of course not. It’s that the world itself isn’t going to magically fill up with people who live up to that value any time soon.Neither is Murica!
The idiots at Turning Point USA didn’t really come up with this bit of folk wimpdom, I don’t think, not any more than they came up with the various fake founder quotes bearing their name lately, but I’veranted about that
before
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This meme can’t be debunked with a simple press for evidence, but it comforts the already-comfortable just the same. Like fake quotes from America’s founding fathers, this meme is designed to light up a warm and fuzzy feeling right in that place where folks might keep theirinner old codger.
I think just about all of us have had that experience, we’ve all seen some living train wreck crashing through our presence without any sense of personal responsibility. It’d be easy enough to imagine they could do better in life, both for their own sake and for those around them, if only they would just take some responsibility for their actions. Collect enough such stories and I suppose it could become really tempting to think that same prescription would go a long way toward making the world a better place. But of course we could say the same thing of kindness and compassion.Of honesty.
Of hard work.
Of self restraint.
…you get the idea. It’s the nature of moral principles. We can often see how neglecting them means unnecessary hardship for ourselves and others. We can also see that people do neglect them on a regular basis. Sadly, that just isn’t going to change any time soon. So any solution predicated on this possibility is a non-solution. But of course the point of this meme isn’t really to hope against all hope that everyone suddenly learns to cowboy up and resolve every problem from homelessness to the persistent popularity of boy bands. (Dammit anyhow!) No, the point here is to conjure the illusion that this fantasy is an actual solution to real-world problems, and perhaps more importantly, to point a finger, so to speak, at those who may be in the way of that fantasy-solution. Why are there poor and homeless people? Cause the lazy bastards won’t work! Why do people cheat on tests or taxes? Cause they haven’t taken personal responsibility for meeting their t-challenges. Why is there crime? Why is there corruption in Congress? And why do the Bluetooth devices in my home fight over the signal from my cell phone? You got it! Cause some bastard hasn’t taken responsibility for making it otherwise. The meme conjures these and so many other inferences without stating them outright. It invites us to imagine a brave new world in which everyone tackles their own problems and we all right off into the sunset after enjoying a hearty steak-dinner at the end of every day. …and really, let’s be honest, that first item above, the one about poverty, is probably the big one for this particular fantasy. The folks at Turning Point USA do love their commie-bashing, so the poverty theme is right up their alley. At the heart of this folk idiocy is the notion that such problems are, at bottom, simple, just a result of lazy people who refuse to take responsibility for their own lives. We have poor people, so the thinking goes, because of the poor people. It’s their own damned fault! If only they took responsibility for their own welfare, they’d be just fine, but they won’t so it’s their problem, and not ours. We can forget any questions about the underlying social causes of poverty, and we can flat out ignore the existence of the working poor or the known consequences of getting seriously sick in a nation whose government is so wholly devoted to the profits of the insurance industry. No, if people are poor, it is their problem. That is all we need know. If only the poors would just buck up, America would be the fifties fantasy-land some of us grew up watching on television. And boy-howdy, wouldn’t that just be swell!?! But they don’t, so we can’t and it’s all their fault. And that’s what’s important; knowing whose fault it is. Thus, a solution to a problem becomes a means of avoiding it! …speaking of responsibility, and the utter and complete lack of it.SHARE THIS:
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UNEXPECTED RESONANCE 26 _Thursday_ Dec 2019 Posted by danielwalldammitin atheism
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Issues
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atheism , Belief
, College
, Communication
, Ghosts
, Monsters
, Navajo
, Scary Stories
, Skinwalkers
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home to Flagstaff every Friday night, right?” A student asked me this one evening. Sitting as we were in Chinle, well inside the Navajo Nation, and a hundred and sixty or so miles away from Flagstaff, we both knew that he was describing a rather long drive late at night after a long week. Normally, I would be leaving just around 9pm and I could expect to get into town shortly before midnight. I’d been doing this for years, and I think most of my students knew I commuted out from Flagstaff every week. I wondered, why was this student asking me about it now? “Do you ever see anything strange on that road?” It seems, I learned that night, that a significant stretch of the road I was traveling was known for skinwalkers. From the reaction of his classmates, I gathered, this student wasn’t the only one curious about my experiences on that drive. I had only recently come to learn that the ghost of a small child was rumored to walk the halls of the school where I taught evening courses. Being stubborn enough to keep class the full time on most evenings, I was frequently the last person out of the building. I hadn’t seem this apparition either. Nor had I ever heard his footsteps in the hallway It was an interesting moment, a conversation that reached across cultural boundaries, and did so in an unusually personal way. We weren’t discussing official Navajo Educational Philosophy or touching on any of the well known themes of Navajo ceremonialism, economics, etc. This was a student who believed in skinwalkers asking me if I’d seen them myself. It wasn’t just that I was white. He knew, as most of my students knew, that I am an atheist and generally speaking, a skeptic. He knew this, and chose to raise the subjectanyway.
It didn’t strike me as a confrontation so much as an expression of genuine curiosity, and an effort to communicate across cultural barriers and well established differences of opinion. He wanted to know about my own experiences on a road known for its share of scary stories. For my own part, I was as curious to see what stories were told of the road as he was to see if I had one. But of course I didn’t have a story. None at all. …which was a bit awkward. Don’t get me wrong. Nobody’s world view came crashing down that evening. My students and I just sat there in an odd silence, each contemplating the next step in this conversation. I suppose some of them must have been trying to decide, as I was myself, just how much we wanted to get into this? We could have taken it in all sorts of different directions. Finally, a student offered that since I didn’t believe in skinwalkers, they probably wouldn’t bother me. I think I started to put together an argument, even made the first couple sounds of a reply which would probably have involved questions about the meaning of his words or the nature of his reasoning, and then I hesitated. I couldn’t help smiling. “You know. I think I can agree with that.” Everyone laughed, and then it was time to say goodnight for theevening.
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FOR A CERTAIN VALUE OF ‘WIN’ 25 _Wednesday_ Dec 2019 Posted by danielwalldammitin Politics
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, Holidays
, Propaganda
, Republicans
, Rhetoric
, Snowflakes
, Trump
So, the Trump campaign has launched a brand new website intended to help their supporters ‘win’ arguments over the Holiday dinner tables. (No, I’m not linking to the damned thing; you can find it yourself if you like.) I seem to recall the deplorable pundits encouraging their faithful to harass us at the Thanksgiving dinner table. Now they’ve decided to press the fight on into Christmas aswell.
…and supposedly, it’s liberal secularists that are trying to ruin Christmas, but whatever! How are they pitching this little bundle of disinformation? Accordingto CBS News
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> “We’ve all seen the news articles about liberal snowflakes being > afraid to see their MAGA relatives at Christmas or holiday > gatherings, so the Trump campaign wants people to be ready,” > Kayleigh McEnany, Trump campaign national press secretary, said in a > statement. “We’re not helping snowflakes avoid arguments – > we’re helping Trump supporters win them! As 2019 draws to a close > and 2020 approaches, President Trump and Americans are going to be > winning, winning, and winning, and then winning some more!” Which brings to mind a certain question. Why is it that we liberals are the ones ducking these Holiday discussions? Why is it that we are the ones consciously trying to avoid politics with friends and family over the Holiday season. I suppose there may be some counter-examples, obviously there are, but I do think the general pattern is those pushing this sight see it; liberals are the ones who would rather not engage even as deplorables are only too happy to spill their love of the Manchurian Cheeto all over the room, regardless of the season.Frankly, I
think this quote, commonly attributed to Bill Murray sums it up rather nicely. (Speaking of which, does anybody out there know when Murray said that? Or if it really was him?) It isn’t a fear of losing the argument so much as the knowledge that any argument worth making will be wasted on some folks. We’ve all been there, and the headache just isn’t worth it. Also, quite frankly, the fear of seeing the darker truths about people we know and love. It sucks when you realize that someone you really care about shows you that that they are only of egg-nogs away from telling a bunch of really racist jokes. It’s unpleasant to realize that a close friend or relative doesn’t check his facts before opening his mouth and can’t be corrected when called out on it. It’s genuinely horrifying to realize that someone you love is just fine with seeing certain people suffer needlessly (ahem! Children in cages on our borders or living under the bombs in any number of places around the world). It isn’t just the unpleasantness of disagreement that makes some of us wary of Holiday discussions, it’s those moments when you can’t help seeing a trace of cruelty or willful deceit underlies the politics of some people you’d like to love. Sure, sometimes people make a reasonable argument from the other side. Even a right wing clock is right twice a day, so to speak, but sometimes, all-too-often really, it isn’t the challenging case that makes us uncomfortable, much less the cold hard-to-explain fact, it’s the moment you see the genuine cruelty in a friend or family member. Politics brings that out in people, somepeople at any rate.
With Trump in the White House, politics is bringing it out of them alot more often.
If Hell is the impossibility of reason, then Holiday Hell is the impossibility of reasoning with a half-drunk uncle. The White House wants to see more of that happening today and tomorrow. Apparently, this year it isn’t enough to fight an imaginary war on Christmas or to do as Trump has done in the past, which is to take credit for the fact that people are wishing each other Merry Christmas again, and hope that people won’t notice that most never stopped in the first place. Now they want us to argue more over Christmas. This is just one more example of trump’s old promise that he will deliver countless wins to his followers. Like so many other ‘winning’ moments, this one is a manufactured moment of one-up-manship, a pointless battle designed to give someone lacking any semblance of character a chance to feel he got the better of someone else. It is neither patriotism nor conservatism. It certainly isn’t Christianity. And it really isn’t much of a win when you think about it. Which is to say that it is just like everything else Trump has brought to us over the last 3 years.SHARE THIS:
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20 _Friday_ Dec 2019 Posted by danielwalldammitin General
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, Gender Roles
, Judgement
, Leadership
, Men
, Perception
, Women
It’s become a commonplace observation that women often get called a ‘bitch’ for doing exactly the same things that earn men a reputation for strong leadership. It’s a good observation. Whatever the mental twists and turns that explain this tendency, there is something about gender that seems to skew perception of assertive behavior, making roughly the same conduct objectionable in women andlaudable in men.
The problem is ubiquitous. If you think you are an exception, then you probably aren’t. It isn’t necessarily a function of conscious bigotry and political commitments to support feminism don’t in and of themselves resolve the matter. I expect many well-woke folks have caught themselves grumbling at that bitch over there even as they admired this man over here for behaving in roughly comparable ways. (I expect many more never caught themselves doing this at all.) It’s a latent bias hard-wired into the social patterns of our daily lives and reinforced by countless layers of stereotyping and gender-based norms, many of which don’t come with obvious red flags telling us, “this way lies misogyny!” You have to think your way out of this kind ofbias.
And then you probably have to do it again.…and again!
…and (you get the idea.) One thing that does bother me about the observation in question though, is that it’s practical significance is usually taken as obvious. When this observation is made, it is usually made in the service of getting us to reconsider harsh evaluations directed atassertive women.
“Okay, fair enough,” I usually find myself thinking. But I think there is at least one other implication here that doesn’t get near enough attention. If perhaps a lot of us should rethink our condemnation of misbehaving women, I think it’s at least as important to consider that maybe a lot of us are far too easily impressed by obnoxious behavior from men. Perhaps, we need to get a lot better at telling the difference between a man showing great leadership potential and one who is simply acting like an asshole.SHARE THIS:
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IRONIC REDEMPTIONS AND PERSISTENT CRIMES 18 _Monday_ Nov 2019 Posted by danielwalldammitin Politics
, Religion
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Conservatism , DonaldTrump , Fraud
, Jim Bakker
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I’m still trying to get used to seeing Jim Bakker in the news again. I’m old enough to remember when his initial scams were alive and well. I remember how painfully obvious his deceits were. I remember the outrageousness of it all, not just his own lies, but the utter gullibility of his followers. I distinctly remember realizing with some degree of sadness that his followers must not merely have been fooled. To say they believed in this man (and his wife Tammy Fae) required a trace of dishonesty in itself. They couldn’t simply be fooled. They had to be lying too. I remember the scandal that finally broke Bakker’s financial empire, and I remember his statements about Jessica Hahn. Like so many of those uttered by God’s top salesmen, Bakker’s confessions were littered with excuses and self-serving narratives that showed little contrition and plenty of bad faith all around. It may have been a sex scandal that broke his old over PTL ministries, but it was fraud that sent Bakker to prison, fraud perpetrated in the name of Jesus and sold primarily to retired pensioners who could ill-afford to bankroll the lavish lifestyle this man enjoyed at their expense. But here we are. Bakker is back, and he is selling Jesus once again. Because people never really seem to learn from history. Not the lessons that matter anyway. Is this a newer an wiser Jim Bakker? Can we trust him now? Is he a better man than the one who clearly did have an affair, and quite possibly raped the woman he had the affair with? Is he more honest than the one who bilked his followers out of millions with the promise of lifetime memberships in PTL and membership benefits he never eventried to deliver?
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That’s not really the question to ask though, is it? Bakker is who is he, who he always was. That should be perfectlyclear.
Better to ask if we are a better and wiser society? Have we done anything to protect ourselves from the likes of Jim Bakker, or is America just as wide open for this sort of scam as we were back in the gullibility jubilee that was the Reagan era? Are we still going to humor two-bit huxters with the miraculous power to turn thoughts of Jesus into perfectly material cash? Do we have any means of holding the likes of Bakker accountable for their perfectly antics? Or are we still unable to do anything about them?***
Take no solace in your own intelligence! People like to imagine that those who fall for the likes of Bakker are simply stupid, that the sort of crime in which he engages amounts to a sort of poetic justice. “Anyone dumb enough to fall for that sort of thing deserves what they get,” so I am often told. But that’s justan evasion.
Critical thinking skills won’t save any of us, especially not in our twilight years. Televangelism is a business that works by catching up on the tail end of our own better judgement. Many of those who give to the likes of Bakker better might have known better at some point in their lives. Many would have laughed him out of the room in their younger days. This is one of the main features of televangelism. It’s a business model that can wait for us to lose our our intellectual edge, to give up some of our skepticism, and to embrace hopes we might once have shunned. …and to accept the token promise that giving our hard-earned money to some perfectly mortal human with grifter written all over their every word and deed we can somehow make good with a divine force capable of making everything right in the end. We may know better now.Make no mistake.
The likes of Bakker can wait until we don’t.***
Does it need to be said? Bakker is hardly alone. I don’t know about you, but I’ve long since lost track of the number of times one of God’s surrogates has been caught making off with money meant for him, …pardon me, Him. I can’t easily count the number of His faithful who’ve been caught in the wrong bed, hotel room, or sex club either, to say nothing of the number of those denouncing homosexuality, or offering some cure for it, who found their way into the arms of someone of the same sex. Time and again, it turns out that the message of god just doesn’t fit well in the mouth of its mortal medium. No, the problem isn’t simply that Christians are just as human, and just as flawed as the rest of us; it’s that Christianity (or at least some versions of it) often proves to be the worst thing about these people. Left to their own vices, many of these people would prove little less than perfectly human, but high on God, they are a hazard to others, and a constant threat to many more harmless thanthemselves.
I can understand someone whose love life is a train wreck, but when that person makes a living promoting a more perfect vision of what that life should be, damned right I expect them to live up to that vision. Or to give it up when that vision proves fatally flawed. When selling that message becomes a multi-million dollar business, I am just a little less forgiving about the whole thing.***
Bakker isn’t a fluke. He is poster boy for a type of business that has always been fraudulent to its core. Yes, I said ‘business’. Televangelism is a business. It may enjoy non-profit status, and it may generate all kinds of god-talk, but it is absolutely a business. The likes of Bakker prove this time and time again. These men are in it for the money. That should be perfectly obvious to all concerned. Jim Bakker is a business man. His business is Televangelism. Right now, that business is good. With Kanye West celebrating his new Jesus-flavored branding scheme in Texas with Joel Osteen and Paula White enjoying a gig as the spiritual advisor to Donald Trump, it does seem to be a good year for huxters with open wallets and talk of God falling out of their open mouths. Jerry Falwell, Jr. and Franklin Graham have certainly been enjoying their renewed access to the worldly powers made possible by the Orange man in the White House. Of the course the common element in all these sordid stories (and countless others) is Donald Trump himself. Few things could be more odd than the way conservative Christians have embraced Donald Trump, this man who has never shown the least bit of interest in anything but worldly pleasures and worldly powers. The allegiance that so many of America’s entrepreneurial Christians have sworn to this man seems like a clear and loud confession to their own hypocrisy. You couldn’t possibly ask for a more blatant condemnation of conservative Christian politics, than the support these charlatans have shown to Donald Trump. It makes no sense at all. Well it makes no sense if you take their messages seriously. On another level, it should come as no surprise at all that a man who once bilked countless pensioners out of their life-savings in a fake university would find common cause with an entire industry that thrives on the life savings of the old and infirm. It should come as no surprise that people who spend their entire lives talking about an absolute authority with perfect power to determine matters of right and wrong would jump at the chance to support a man who recognizes no authority other than his own whim. That those who conceive ultimate authority in the form of a ‘Lord’ would prove unwilling to defend the checks and balances of a constitutional republic from a political movement recognizing no power capable of saying no to ‘The Leader’. If you pay any attention to the way that America’s political Christians think about power and authority, their willingness to support Donald Trump should prove no more surprising than the fancy cars and homes enjoyed by evangelical leadership. The Televangelists who turn this mentality into big business are acting in perfect concert with their normal MO when they line up to bend the knee before their perfectly mortal savior. With or without Jesus, Donald Trump is the answer to their prayers, and they know it.Praise Mammon!
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Jim Bakker is back, and he is now enjoying a resurgence of his own media popularity. Much like the Reagan era, this is his time. He isn’t back because he has changed his ways, much less because he or any other televangelist gives a damn about Jesus. He is back because the rest of us haven’t done anything about the particular kind of crime at which he excels. If we had, Hell trump would be in jail right now, as would so many other big business pastors. America is still wide open for any thief smart enough to allude to the promise of eternal salvation instead of foolishly offering a quid pro quo in explicit and concrete terms. We are still willing to watch the elderly lose their life savings to these crack-pot con artists, just as we are willing to tolerate so many other crimes whose victims don’t have enough power and money to matter. They have an ally in the White House now, and these people who sell Jesus for a living grow bolder every day. What they deliver to Donald Trump is a political base willing to take his word (and theirs) on any of the controversial issues of the day. What Donald Trump offers them is the support of worldly powers, powers left unchecked by the very gullibility of a political base that would donate money to the likes of Jim Bakker or spend it on an institution like Trump University. It’s a good time to be shameless. So, I guess it shouldn’t surprise me to see the likes of Bakker back in the news. No doubt, we will see much more of him in the future, and of othersjust like him.
Praise Mammon!
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