Resources for December 11, 2013

Jay Livingston Sociological Images: "Crime Sprees or Media Themes? Organizing the News"





Carla Rivera for The L.A. Times: "San Diego State to offer certificate in LGBT studies"





Andrew Gavin Marshall on Boiling Frogs: "Part 1 of an interview series on the New World Order" which includes discussions of "the central role of the Rockefeller, Carnegie, and Ford Foundations in the construction of knowledge and the transformation of America from an ‘isolationist’ society to a ‘globalist’ society, and the concerted and strategic effort by these institutions in seeking to engineer and manage the social sciences to fit within the framework of an emerging American Empire. He warns about the slight and subtle process through which a potentially powerful movement such as Occupy Wall Street may be co-opted and controlled, and shares with us his 12-Point proposal for the Occupy Movement to ‘be the change.’ Mr. Marshall provides us with his view and definition of the New World Order, the role of institutions, including the NGOs, the importance of true independence in counter-movement and protests and more!"

According to A.K. Tettenborn at Fudge That Sugar I am a "Feminist."


Merriam-Webster's Word of the Day:

albeit awl-BEE-it\

conjunction: conceding the fact that : even though : although

Troy has finally landed a role in a Broadway play, albeit as a minor character.

"Earth is an afterthought—just one of the 'nine realms,' albeit the one with Natalie Portman." — From a movie review by Jake Coyleap in The Daily Commercial (Leesburg, Florida), November 7, 2013

Speakers of Middle English formed "albeit" from a combination of "al" ("all, completely") with "be" and "it," creating this word which literally means "although it be." Use of "albeit" seemed to drop off a bit in the 19th century, but in the middle of the 20th century several usage commentators observed that the "archaic" word was making a comeback. The "archaic" descriptor was not entirely apt; "albeit" may have become less common for a while but it never really went out of use. It is true, however, that use of "albeit" has increased considerably since the 1930s, judging by evidence in Merriam-Webster's files.


David Pescovitz for Boing Boing shares "Music: DF Tram's "Movie Mix" journey through filmspace"

wifty * adjective * eccentric or eccentrically silly; dizzy

"As a citizen, I have the right to represent a point of view. That's central to our democracy - the right to dissent, the right to provide a different point of view that's out in the open, in the full view of the American people." - Representative Barbara Lee