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- Sun Jan 20, 2008 4:33 pm
- Forum: Current Events & History
- Topic: American Apparel and apartheid
- Replies: 3
- Views: 2471
I can't help but think that one rationale for allowing immigrant work is to keep domestic costs down to a level they wouldn't hold if all our workers were documented. And if that's the case, then I'm not sure how you could integrate previously undocumented workers without undermining the rationale t...
- Sun Jan 20, 2008 4:28 pm
- Forum: Current Events & History
- Topic: U.S. GOP Candidate Mike Huckabee - Disturbing video
- Replies: 62
- Views: 18501
I think we agree the Lincoln/Douglas debates were too extreme for modern America, but perhaps candidates will be given more time. I don't. If a politician can speak substantively for 90 minutes, I say let them. The problem is that most politicians seem horrified by the prospect of actually talking ...
- Sun Jan 20, 2008 4:08 pm
- Forum: Authors: Tell us about your FICTION book!
- Topic: The Unbearable Lightness of Being
- Replies: 2
- Views: 2766
Rose, Kundera will complexify those metaphors later on in the novel. I would go so far as to say that he makes them so transparent so early on in part to facilitate the reader's willingness to see them modified further in. And then there's the playfulness of it. The sort of metaphors he's working wi...
- Sun Jan 20, 2008 4:03 pm
- Forum: Authors: Tell us about your FICTION book!
- Topic: Should Nabokov
- Replies: 13
- Views: 6799
DH asked: Does the artist have a responsibility to his art that supercedes his own private wishes? The only obligation an artist has towards his work is the obligation he feels. Apparently, Nabokov didn't feel an overwhelming obligation to make public an unfinished work. Does the artist have a respo...
- Sat Jan 19, 2008 7:29 pm
- Forum: Authors: Tell us about your FICTION book!
- Topic: African authors
- Replies: 12
- Views: 7816
- Sat Jan 19, 2008 7:27 pm
- Forum: Current Events & History
- Topic: U.S. GOP Candidate Mike Huckabee - Disturbing video
- Replies: 62
- Views: 18501
I saw the rules to the Lincoln/Douglas debates recently. Imagine if we tried something like that for the final two candidates in this Presidential race. I think you're probably right that it wouldn't work in the current atmosphere, but I have reservations about your rationale for why. I can't help ...
- Sat Jan 19, 2008 7:18 pm
- Forum: Religion & Philosophy
- Topic: Moral Quandaries
- Replies: 25
- Views: 10455
- Sat Jan 19, 2008 7:16 pm
- Forum: Everything Else
- Topic: Purely preposterous poppycock
- Replies: 12
- Views: 5977
- Sat Jan 19, 2008 7:14 pm
- Forum: Arts & Entertainment
- Topic: How can you tell what is and isn't art?
- Replies: 17
- Views: 10489
How can you tell what is and isn't art?
In the Best of YouTube -> Krumping thread, the discussion has turned to the question of whether or not krumping qualifies as art. Which leads me to ask a more general question, and I thought others might want to lodge their opinion: How can you tell what is and isn't art? If it helps to frame the qu...
- Sat Jan 19, 2008 7:11 pm
- Forum: Arts & Entertainment
- Topic: Krumping? ...what do you think about it?
- Replies: 36
- Views: 17014