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Special Lecture Notices: 'Irritus now conducts free lectures covering issues that are important to our public at large. Lectures will include timely topics that often confuse and complicate our simple message. Ambiguity in messaging can confuse our base and often even us. Guns Safety and Slogans: Citizens have every right to be safe in America, a massively armed society does not make anyone feel safe. Obviously it's important we support weapon manufacturers but at the same time our people must win re-election. So this lecture will cover how to avoid being looked upon as a nutcase with no concern for voter's safety. Topics include: If your constituency is not full of rabid gun nuts how you can abstain from voting. How to answer questions about the death of a loved one by unnecessary and once illegal automatic weapons. How to appear sincerely concerned over children's deaths. If your constituency, like Ted Cruz's, is full of gun nuts you're among the...

And yet Americans still support Japan by buying their autos and other products? Animal lovers in America are outraged if an Animal is mistreated and yet they fail to help in this important issue. And to top it off, Americans complain about deficits and social security solvency as they support Japanese union workers and their universal healthcare. Sometimes I think that idiot Donald Trump has a point even when it isn't certain he understands it. Many Americans buy a Prius to salve their conscience and save the earth, maybe they should do something substantive instead. Americans could stop this ecologic destruction even as they support their own nation. Will they? Of course not, instead they will ask Hillary Clinton about her carbon donors as the world turns or is that burns. Read article here. Another Controversial Election Issue - Tax Havens Check out corporate tax havens and you must wonder how America will repair a crumbling infrastructure when it biggest users hide from...

"By an accident of birth, I fall into the White Guy category. To keep this on a positive note, let’s call it my brand. And that means that if other people with my outward characteristics do dumb-ass things, it reflects on my brand." Scott Adams White conservative Americans have become an embarrassment. I know that's not politically correct, but face it folks we are starting to look like a nation of idiots. Think about that for a minute. Our white conservative Congress is voting again to repeal healthcare, you know healthcare that is slavery. Texas Governor Greg Abbott wants to make America Somalia, no need to obey federal laws - articles of Confederation redux. Kansas Governor Brownback bought into the insane idea idea that reducing taxes brings forth magic. Now the state is a mess. Kansas is just one state run by a white conservative republican. Was Brownback alive in 2008 and 2009 or was he lost in some imaginary supply side universe. Laffer is so appropriate a name. ...

Interesting history and our Constitution. 'A Bubble in Time: America During the Interwar Years, 1989-2001' by William L. O'Neill 'American High: The Years of Confidence, 1945-1960' by William L. O'Neill 'That's Not What They Meant!: Reclaiming the Founding Fathers from America's Right Wing' by Michael Austin Games and Life 'The Grasshopper, third edition: Games, Life and Utopia' by Bernard Suits July Links Buy American More on cars Outsourcing Ten things and Life Give your money away Meat or vegetables Outrospection "It's fun to tease people about where fiction and life intersect." Dorothy Allison

Summer reads and a few links. 'The New Prophets of Capital' by Nicole Aschoff 'ISIS: Inside the Army of Terror' by Michael Weiss and Hassan Hassan 'The Nearest Thing to Life (The Mandel Lectures in the Humanities)' by James Wood See Work link below. 'The World Beyond Your Head: On Becoming an Individual in an Age of Distraction' by Matthew B. Crawford 'Extraordinary Popular Delusions and The Madness of Crowds' by Charles MacKay 'Manias, Panics and Crashes: A History of Financial Crises,' Sixth Edition, by Charles P. Kindleberger, Robert Z. Aliber, Robert Solow Fiction: 'Crow Fair: Stories' by Thomas McGuane and all of Cormac McCarthy 'The Founding Fathers Versus The Gun Nuts' Outsourcing, a bit dated, but still relevant. The Liberal Arts vs. Neoliberalism. Unreal, unreal.... see YouTube. Working with your hands.

Kansas, Brownback's Welfare State Is it not curious that a state that says it is about freedom imposes restrictions on the needy while it fails to impose any restrictions on its own bad habits? When your state is on the dole because of your policies shouldn't you too give something up? Given Governor Sam Brownback's economic failure shouldn't he in fairness impose the same restrictions on himself and on his staff. Obvious failure should be seen for what it is, failure. Only comedy can do justice to Kansas. Sam's tax help. More on Sam's failure here. And Guns.... Remember the incredible fear one case of Ebola caused the republican party, would you not think this issue of some concern? Social media, the new bully pulpit. Why be good? "Books had instant replay long before televised sports." Bernard Williams [See what to read]

Enjoy. Nah, we ain't rascist. Scott Walker another dummy? Docs on Vaccines. Will republicans ever change? 'Just How dangerous is Sen. Tom Cotton, Iran Letter Crackpot? You’d be Surprised'. "...[T]he most important identity we can acknowledge in another person is the identity of being an intelligent reflective human being." Stefan Collini 'That's Offensive'