http://www.kellyramsey.net Tue, 12 Feb 2008 01:11:04 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en On February 10 I went up to Los Angeles to observe the Project Chanology protests against the Church of Scientology. My photos are up on Flickr. http://www.kellyramsey.net/index.php/2008/02/11/anonymous-vs-scientology-in-los-angeles/ I try to keep up with the sociology-related blogs, even though far too many of them are gratingly self-indulgent enclaves. Having thereby come across Shamus Khan's post describing an anonymous student complaint, I feel compelled to constructively dissent from the majority of responses. I won't claim vast amounts of teaching ... http://www.kellyramsey.net/index.php/2007/12/08/shoo-plan/ I made it through NaBloPoMo. Whew. Thank you, Leah, for bringing this post-every-day thing to my attention at exactly the right time. To my immense amusement, the PR flacks are as nervous as ever, almost nobody seems to have cared enough about the Alan Dershowitz speech at UCI to blog about ... http://www.kellyramsey.net/index.php/2007/12/01/made-it-through-november/ Here's a bit of ye liveliest Awfulness, inspired by "The Second Coming" by Protocol 5 of somethingawful.com and, of course, horribly mangling H. P. Lovecraft's "Nyarlathotep". Ron Paul Ron Paul... the crawling candidate... I am the last... I will tell the audient void... I do not recall distinctly when it began, but it ... http://www.kellyramsey.net/index.php/2007/11/30/ronpaulhotep/ I attended. It was dull. Most of my photographs came out blurry. The photos are from me; the video clips are from around the Internet. UCI police were well-represented. Alan Dershowitz was wrapping up his talk elsewhere in the building, though, so who knows how much security Pipes alone would have ... http://www.kellyramsey.net/index.php/2007/11/29/daniel-pipes-at-uc-irvine-nov-28/ Here's more for the crank file. Ron Paul evidently subscribes to conspiracy theories about a "North American Union". Dennis Kucinich, you're not impressing me with your judgment. In this clip Ron Paul responds to a question from Phyllis Schlafly, another promulgator of North American Union silliness. On a related note, see ... http://www.kellyramsey.net/index.php/2007/11/28/ron-paul-nau-conspiracies-and-schlafly-seconds/ By way of a circuitous path of internet browsing*, I happened across a tidbit of information that's in plain sight on Wikipedia. Ron Paul is a member of a certain conservative advocacy group - the Association of American Physicians and Surgeons. He has been since 1966. The AAPS has published quite ... http://www.kellyramsey.net/index.php/2007/11/27/ron-paul-mad-doktor/