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Month: January 2009

Yes I Did

January 5, 2009 Leigh M. Johnson Obama, RMWMTMBM Archive 1 Comment

… change the format of this blog, that is. I’m going to give this look a trial run for about a week before deciding whether or not to dispatch with it. Comments welcome, even encouraged.

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Antiheroes (Again)

January 4, 2009 Leigh M. Johnson Philosophy, Pop Culture/Film, Pop Culture/Film/Literature, RMWMTMBM Archive 4 Comments

There’s an article in the current issue of Newsweek by Joshua Alston entitled “Too Much of a Bad Thing” (without a question mark, but I’ll come back to that later) that claims we are all suffering from “Antihero Overload” and bemoans the fact that “no one on TV can be merely good or evil anymore.”…

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Pleasure Reading

January 3, 2009 Leigh M. Johnson RMWMTMBM Archive 6 Comments

On my way to the APA conference last week, I had a layover in Detroit that was extended a couple of hours by bad weather. Like most people in my line of work, I did (of course) have a couple of books with me, both of them related to my current research, and I had…

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Clean Slate

January 2, 2009 Leigh M. Johnson Philosophy, Politics, RMWMTMBM Archive 2 Comments

It’s funny how a simple and arbitrary change in the calander date can give us all the impression that something has really started over, that we have begun a new project that is in some way really distinct from the one we were in only a couple of days ago, that the weight of 2008’s…

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