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James Spillane

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Free Tibet, Goddamn It!

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Photo by Dante Busquets-Anzenberger
Photo by Dante Busquets-Anzenberger

Most of the facts in this article are true.

As you’re all aware, Beijing is hosting the 2008 Summer Olympics. They’re spending hundreds of millions of dollars on this thing, they’ve built some cool buildings, and they’re trying to generally spruce up the city in anticipation of the international spotlight that they’ll receive. They’ve been working …


Maslow’s Hierarchy of How We’re Fucked

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If you’ve ever taken a high school psychology class, you probably have a vague recollection of Maslow’s hierarchy of needs. Maslow probably thought that he was designing this hierarchy in order to direct humanity down the road to happiness. It is my contention that his actual achievement was to demonstrate to humanity how totally fucked we are. To illustrate this point, I will run through each of Maslow’s needs and discuss how it indicates fucked-ness.

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