Msnbc.com is reporting that Mayan Elder Apolinario Chile Pixtun is “fed up with this stuff” regarding the frantic inquiries he’s been getting about 2012 – the supposed end date of the Mayan calendar. Mexican archaeologist Guillermo Bernal agrees, saying that both new agers yearning for global enlightenment and rapture minded dooms-dayers are guilty of superimposing […]

The ol‘ professa, Noam Chomsky, doesn’t really get the credit he deserves. Superficial encounters with his work, either sympathetic or critical, seem to dominate most perspectives of it, and I think there’s an unwarranted “Chomsky-fatigue” simply because they guy has been around so damned long. Regardless, I’ve watched this mean carry on debates in french, […]