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Randy Rodriguez is a writer, "amateur" intellectual, and social critic. His critically informed ideological and cultural consciousness serves as a basis for insightful and probing social commentary on a broad spectrum of current and historically important cultural and political issues. But he is not defined solely by his intellectual interests. He loves the outdoor arts of fly fishing and golf which balance and correct his time spent tied to the artificial intelligences and abstract social practices of computers and smart phones.
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- How privilege works: rules don't apply; lying is pro forma. (Business as usual for "too big to fail".) http://t.co/dSSQWg5b 4 days ago
- (Re previous tweet.) Too difficult for "normal" social science to imagine natural human species social variabiltiy? http://t.co/sf3lybw4 6 days ago
- Holy cow! A psychiatrist arguing that human species norm is sociability and deviance from norm is pathologized. http://t.co/sf3lybw4 6 days ago
- Reminded again of the importance of academic pretense and the myth of the "ivory tower". http://t.co/oh8SbEAz 6 days ago
- Taibbi wants to believe in Obama's economic populist rhetoric. I was unconvinced by Obama's 2012 SOTU performance. MOTS http://t.co/mq7DfD0U 1 week ago
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