tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7666164.comments2023-11-02T03:06:37.682-05:00Malcolm's BlogMalcolm Travershttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08189480126655380995noreply@blogger.comBlogger24125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7666164.post-78030075286236449462013-01-29T16:41:17.944-05:002013-01-29T16:41:17.944-05:00Ηі there! Do уou use Twitter? I'd like to foll...Ηі there! Do уou use Twitter? I'd like to follow you if that would be okay. I'm dеfinitely enjοying youг blog аnd <br />look forward to nеw updateѕ.<br /><br />mу web pagе ... <a href="http://www.bucket--truck.com/using-a-bucket-truck-everyday/" rel="nofollow">bucket trucks</a><br /><i>Also visit my web blog</i> ... <b><a href="http://www.bucket--truck.com/blog/" rel="nofollow">bucket truck information</a></b>Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7666164.post-6525955376025482042013-01-23T04:47:28.262-05:002013-01-23T04:47:28.262-05:00Hi there, I enjoy reading through your article.
I ...Hi there, I enjoy reading through your article.<br />I wanted to write a little comment to support you.<br /><i>Feel free to visit my page</i> ... <b><a href="http://www.nmslincoln.com/furnishing-your-new-apartment-on-a-budget" rel="nofollow">santa monica apartment</a></b>Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7666164.post-87864552750560789862010-07-05T09:06:41.814-05:002010-07-05T09:06:41.814-05:00I think you are right on the money...you see it wi...I think you are right on the money...you see it with a kind of clarity that is rare today.<br />I am starting to follow your blog because if this is a sample of your posts then I want more.<br />saludos,<br />raulito<br />http://fromtop2bttm.blogspot.com/Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7666164.post-80064424869498788702009-12-29T19:20:13.170-05:002009-12-29T19:20:13.170-05:00"But they should not do so with my tax dollar..."But they should not do so with my tax dollars."<br /><br />That's it!Eduardo Guizehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00265042540950937441noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7666164.post-76663980463241266372009-12-29T11:51:34.380-05:002009-12-29T11:51:34.380-05:00Love the quote!Love the quote!Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/04645640514841995594noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7666164.post-89321786201978559682009-10-09T15:45:23.637-05:002009-10-09T15:45:23.637-05:00Regardless of what they say, he got the award...SH...Regardless of what they say, he got the award...SHUT UP & MOVE ON!!!Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14948903601663342276noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7666164.post-79249267463418813612009-08-26T02:41:46.508-05:002009-08-26T02:41:46.508-05:00People need to stop telling gays this foolishness....People need to stop telling gays this foolishness. Its untidy and only causes more hurt when it never happens!Daddy Squeeze Me!https://www.blogger.com/profile/14857915791876792168noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7666164.post-52704276797059439682009-08-14T22:40:09.273-05:002009-08-14T22:40:09.273-05:00THANK GOD I GET ON MY KNEES AND PRAY FOR OTHER THI...THANK GOD I GET ON MY KNEES AND PRAY FOR OTHER THINGS...Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14948903601663342276noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7666164.post-27214633079865009422009-08-11T04:43:34.909-05:002009-08-11T04:43:34.909-05:00I'm really glad the APA debunks the gay-to-str...I'm really glad the APA debunks the gay-to-straight therapies, but I was shocked by this celibacy alternative. So basically a psychologist can recommend renouncing any kind of lovelife or sexlife if the patient's homosexuality enters in conflict with the patient's faith?<br /><br />How much should anyone sacrifice for a religion that despises their sexuality ?Eduardo Guizehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00265042540950937441noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7666164.post-82784401044063357832009-07-30T04:17:15.543-05:002009-07-30T04:17:15.543-05:00Your Grandpa was a wise man.Your Grandpa was a wise man.Eduardo Guizehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00265042540950937441noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7666164.post-23201745158046890942009-07-24T06:05:42.011-05:002009-07-24T06:05:42.011-05:00"Every other country that has tried has faile..."Every other country that has tried has failed". Really? We have health care in Europe and it's far from being perfect but I wouldn't call it a failure.<br /><br />Obviously, a health care reform in a humongous country like the US is especially complex, though.Eduardo Guizehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00265042540950937441noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7666164.post-16331280039726523702009-07-11T23:21:53.714-05:002009-07-11T23:21:53.714-05:00It can easily be seen either way. The movie is bot...It can easily be seen either way. The movie is both offensive and funny at times if hard to know if your "should" be laughing or not. I think the Bruno character is hyperbolic to make fun at gay stereotypes and to highlight homophobia in everyday settings. I think it can easily be used by some as hate speech and by other as exposing the underbelly of virulent homophobia throughout societyMalcolm Travershttps://www.blogger.com/profile/08189480126655380995noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7666164.post-42871050783545706372009-07-11T22:30:20.996-05:002009-07-11T22:30:20.996-05:00WHY DOES IT HAVE TO COME DOWN TO HIM EITHER MOVING...WHY DOES IT HAVE TO COME DOWN TO HIM EITHER MOVING THE GAY COMMUNITY BACK OR FORWARD? I THINK WE SHOULD TAKE THE GOOD N' BAD AND TRY TO EVEN THINGS OUT...Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14948903601663342276noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7666164.post-36346396744623162232009-07-11T22:28:29.697-05:002009-07-11T22:28:29.697-05:00I CAN'T WAIT TO LAY MY EYES ON THIS MOVIE...I CAN'T WAIT TO LAY MY EYES ON THIS MOVIE...Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14948903601663342276noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7666164.post-42301968554709035292009-07-09T15:18:46.807-05:002009-07-09T15:18:46.807-05:00I LOVE WHEN MEN FAIL THEMSELVES AND TRY TO BE ALL ...I LOVE WHEN MEN FAIL THEMSELVES AND TRY TO BE ALL SELF-RIGHTEOUS STILL...Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14948903601663342276noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7666164.post-63112057885736920632009-07-06T06:38:08.683-05:002009-07-06T06:38:08.683-05:00Oh wow. Man this actually happen in the town that...Oh wow. Man this actually happen in the town that I'm living in and knew nothing about it. I've never entered the Rainbow Lounge nor even heard of it, but don't believe that gay bashing is right at all.nullhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02397020157035444212noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7666164.post-68025964757261171302009-07-05T17:41:23.500-05:002009-07-05T17:41:23.500-05:00LOVE THE LAST ONE THE MOST...LOVE THE LAST ONE THE MOST...Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14948903601663342276noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7666164.post-78577073493807809622009-06-21T19:31:47.033-05:002009-06-21T19:31:47.033-05:00The way I see it, let the govt legalize it so we c...The way I see it, let the govt legalize it so we can collect the tax on it. People are using it anyhow. Just like before alcohol was legalized, People were still getting it. Marijuana is the same way. Regulating it gives greater control over it and allows us to profit from its taxation.Willhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10899405516558542239noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7666164.post-21077176551459408502009-04-13T11:13:00.000-05:002009-04-13T11:13:00.000-05:00I really like this post. I often refer to myself a...I really like this post. I often refer to myself as a post-post modernist, because i really feel that strict adherence to a pure postmodernism hold little political efficacy or ability to "do" anything. Any pure relativist position can't work for people who need to believe something, even if tentatively....so I'm hardly a postmodernism priest or anything. I just think there's a difference between holding a "truth" as true for once and for all (even stubbornly so) and believing in the kind of truth that invites critique, skepticism, research, etc... I thought that Maher's Religilous becomes what it critiques in some senses, but still made very interesting points about "knowing". Thanks for at least taking my point to heart and seeing a reflection of yourself in it.About Tim'mhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00632456904364791857noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7666164.post-19514417980965122442009-04-02T20:05:00.000-05:002009-04-02T20:05:00.000-05:00Malcom,You pose some pretty interesting questions ...Malcom,<BR/><BR/>You pose some pretty interesting questions here, outlined like a true scientist. As someone who has often been considered "too honest" I'm clear that it isn't about any investment in some sort of ontological truth, rather about the vulnerability (or courage) to relay what I believe to be the truth based on the information I have (not information I don't have). In the face of the masks people wear-- the stubborn belief in things that are clearly wrong (e.g., "I'm HIV negative" when you tested positive years ago or "Barack Obama is Muslim" when the fact is that he's a Christian) is not the kind of truth I'm interested in defending or rationalizing. You have far more patience than I when it comes to allowing people to live with their delusions for peace sake. I suppose I do a fairly good job of avoiding those types altogether. <BR/><BR/>The defense of one's image you speak of makes little sense when the image itself is a mirage, a ruse, a denial of what we know to be true. I'm a postmodernist. Outside of certain scientific "facts" like those you've mentioned in your blog, I believe that most things are fairly relative. I believe that even the fact that light is faster that sound is something we'll hold as a tentative truth until proven otherwise (when what we know as "light" or "sound" emerge as more complicated than we'd considered: the light in sound or the sound in light... Who knows? I'm speculating. It's what scientific minds do). However, I will not lose any sleep if it turns out that the speed of light is surpassed by something Other; and believe it is the work of scientists and scholars to put "fact" to any number of tests that will minimize its vulnerability. But while you started talking about the value of honesty in personal relationship-- the consequences of self-deception to save ego has consequences far more grave in interpersonal relationship. I wish you'd extended the analogy to get back to where you started. I wonder how it may have colored your analysis. <BR/><BR/>Any common dispute over a scientific fact is not likely to create a rupture beyond the moment itself. Someone saying "I do" at the alter, when they clearly mean "I do for now" or "I do, to please my family" is an omission with far more critical consequences. It's the difference, I suppose between responsibility to truth and accountability for truth. The former accounts for the preservation of self-image that you talk about, the latter owns up to self-deception against the facts. I don't expect people to be right all the time; and know that I often get things wrong. I do expect people to admit error. We know all to well the impact of stubborn adherence to military or economic policies that don't work. We'd be hard press to glamorize "defense of self-image" when it involves the very lives and livelihoods of millions. I'm not being crude or mean when I suggest that someone "get the facts right", I'm holding them accountable for ways their "self-image" preservation is necessarily in relationship to Others. In a vacuum, a man can tell lies to himself all day, and it won't mean shit to me. Put him in a context with people near and dear to my heart and I'll guard my peeps with an eagle eye.<BR/><BR/>When I taught high school, and even in my current teaching at the college level, I'm one who some might say is about the praxis of deauthorization because I have no problems admitting that I may have presented a fact wrong. Statistics and demographics in the field of Cultural Studies are forever changing. I have too much information in my brain. But my students always know that they are welcome to disagree with my points or correct me when information I have given is outdated. They also know that if posed a question I do not have the answer for, that I at least know how to look it up. I impart this accountability for truth as often as I can, because I feel that the responsibility to truth is connected to this egotistical notion of self-image that I have little investment in, for all the ways, especially in relationships, I have been bruised by someone defending their self-image. Be wrong. Be proud to be wrong. Seek truth when you're wrong. Being wrong is a fact of life. Understand the tentative nature of beingness. Therein lies the secret to my "too honest" truth management. It's def not about being right all the time, but about courage to fess up when I'm not. It's about the search for truth in a world where it is too easily betrayed for the sake of "self-image"-- the consequences, often, all too life-threatening. I'm a both/and kinda guy, not an either/or kinda guy. I'd rather be right and happy, than wrong and "happy". (wink). LOLAbout Tim'mhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00632456904364791857noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7666164.post-30398576620451684162009-04-01T11:07:00.000-05:002009-04-01T11:07:00.000-05:00interesting post. Not sure I've given up on the g...interesting post. Not sure I've given up on the games, but I do think someone will have to bring me a game that, unlike the chess, checkers, monopoly, sorry, uno, or spades I've been playing, actually intrigues me enough to even sit down at the table. I'll be 40 in just a few years. My happiest years have been the single years. I have been a serial monogamist. I have taken strategic and multiple-year breaks between relationships, believing the clarity and "healing" would prepare me better for the games. At the end of the day, people don't always remain the ways the present themselves. I only have control over my own integrity, not others. That being said, i suppose a leap in faith...or some determination, focus, and dexterity by someone who is up to the challenge to 1. understand some of what I've dealt with (not the dismissive...the past is the past...let it go. i'm different than the other guys... [YAWNS]) and 2. empathize and honor my aspirations for a life-partnership (not a boyfriend, a piece of the month, or next-ex).... perhaps I'll play again. I started dating at 19, so nearing 20 years later, the questions are different. The questions you are asking at 30 or relevant and critical at this juncture in your life. Have fun... I suppose I was a great deal more romantic and hopeful at 30 and have experienced most of my extreme let-downs in my 30s. Time to sit with that for a minute and watch others play... but maybe figure out how to have fun in the meantime. Can't say i completely identify with "fun" in the game called life, but I hope to someday feel that way....again. I wrote a song called "30" on my first album that you should listen to.About Tim'mhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00632456904364791857noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7666164.post-11603851952017504302009-03-11T23:43:00.000-05:002009-03-11T23:43:00.000-05:00gotta love the Hemingway quote... thanks for direc...gotta love the Hemingway quote... thanks for directing me to you blog.About Tim'mhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00632456904364791857noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7666164.post-1155508629737668672006-08-13T17:37:00.000-05:002006-08-13T17:37:00.000-05:00This was really special Malcolm. Thank you for sh...This was really special Malcolm. Thank you for sharing this. I enjoyed reading it.Willhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10899405516558542239noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7666164.post-1122176579259528372005-07-23T22:42:00.000-05:002005-07-23T22:42:00.000-05:00What many experience difficulty understanding is t...What many experience difficulty understanding is that the screenplay is not meant to be read 'by itself.' That it's subject from birth to an imaginative translation in such a way that the 'original idea' is but a kernel of what the film becomes. The son is the father of the man, if that makes any sense at all.Michellehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06224465410662729749noreply@blogger.com