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Comment by Ian C Dengler on December 10, 2013 at 1:56am

That looks pretty good, and that's how much it costs to provide an education. In this country schools have to pass bond issues to raise money ( a kind of mortgage)

Comment by Ian C Dengler on December 10, 2013 at 12:33am

sad? umm, the mortgage? she can't get a job because of discrimination against dolls? they don't even (really) rate in fancy museums.

Comment by Ian C Dengler on December 9, 2013 at 3:32pm

see Valley of the Dolls is a novel by American writer Jacqueline Susann, published in 1966. The "dolls" within the title is a slang term for drugs. The term dolls also represents the women in the novel and their mishandling by the patriarchal world in which they are "played" by and dealt with as mere toys. The term also represents the women's reliance on stimulants and soporifics and how it is reminiscent of children clinging to toy dolls for comfort.

Comment by Valentine Mark Herman on December 9, 2013 at 1:03pm

This is a 'Dream'?

I hate to think what an American Nightmare must look like.

Let alone what a voter's fantasy is all about.

And...

All Doll's Houses are bourgeois.

And...

All Dolls are bourgeois.

And...

The Supreme Court has not (yet) decided whether Dolls can vote or not.

Comment by Ian C Dengler on December 9, 2013 at 10:28am

There's that unplucky word 'bourgeois.' Are the majority of published philosophers proprietary moralists? Do they defend an assumed proper, not only in a theory of ranking (such as mathematics), but in sundry other aspects of praxis? The problem is hardly hidden: "proper" comes up as an assumption all over texts.

Comment by Ian C Dengler on December 9, 2013 at 10:14am

Alvin Goldman: philosopher of core voter fantasies.