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- November 15th, 2008
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Creative Capitalism, Chapter 6: The Finale
In point of fact, consider the following quote from Gates’ article:“…a real world example, a few years ago I was sitting in a bar with Bono, and frankly, I thought he was a little nuts. It was l…
- November 14th, 2008
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Creative Capitalism, Chapter 5: Altruism
As mentioned earlier, Bill Gates, without asking “why?”—that is, accepting consequences while ignoring their causes—states that capitalism “leaves people out” and is somehow responsible fo…
- November 13th, 2008
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Creative Capitalism, Chapter 4: The Poverty Breakdown
Poverty can be broken down into four categories (capitalism is responsible for none of them, but rather achieves the opposite: wealth): those who are poor by choice, those who are in transition, those…
- November 12th, 2008
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Creative Capitalism, Chapter 3: Cause and Effect
True to form, following a philosophical layman tendency, Gates erroneously accepts consequences while ignoring their causes—he takes as the given the end result of a long sequence of thought (e.g. c…
- November 11th, 2008
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Creative Capitalism, Chapter 2: Understanding Why
Fundamentally, Bill Gates’ primary error is his utter lack of a proper understanding of philosophy (what it is, why it’s important—questions I’ll answer later in the series) and objective phil…
- November 10th, 2008
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Creative Capitalism, Chapter 1: The Indictment
We have a special guest writer this week--my intellectual cohort, William. For the next six days, William will outline his response to Bill Gates' idea of Creative Capitalism. When the six-part series…
- November 7th, 2008
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Putting a Stop to the Prison Paradox
Another idea to tap a market of almost limitless potential would be to establish a venture capital/talent agency that actively courted inmates with great ideas, great skills or both. Our craft shop in…
- November 6th, 2008
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Rejection: The Tribe or The Individual
So my lovely mother has been up north at a wedding with the entire family. I vaguely remember at her previous, similar excursions, there being little notes from different relatives stuck inside the le…
- November 5th, 2008
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Beauty and the Obese
Yet another instance of the “life is death” philosophy manifested itself in the theme of a Tyra Banks Show episode I recently saw a portion of. In it, morbidly obese strippers were attesting to, a…
- November 4th, 2008
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Stock Tip Tuesday - 11.4.08
The logic behind my Halliburton purchases this summer was certainly fallacious. It was when oil was careening upward, and as my portfolio had a retail slant. I envisioned owning Halliburton as a hedge…
- November 3rd, 2008
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TexasInmate has posted a new entry on: Prison Proxy
Cell Phones in Prison
In case you haven’t heard, a cell phone was recently found in the possession of a death row inmate, and Governor Rick Perry called for a system-wide shakedown. We were racked up (put in our cells) a…
- October 31st, 2008
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The Essence of Sex
A very popular rock song out now, by Raising Abel (or something along those lines), is predominantly about the singer’s enjoyment from receiving oral sex from his partner. The essence of sex, howeve…
- October 30th, 2008
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Rehabilitation as the Creation of Value
The fundamental flaw of the current prison system is that it reinforces the “take value” philosophy (criminalism) in subsidizing the existence of prisoners by itself taking value from the taxpayer…
- October 29th, 2008
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Prison's Incubation of Criminalism
Criminalism, as the philosophy that dictates the taking of value (material or spiritual) instead of creating it, has two incubation lairs: the realm wherein youths’ ignorance is still stronger than…
- October 28th, 2008
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A STT Supplement: The Prison Credit Market
The credit market within prison is vast and vibrant. There are, however, a few dissimilarities to the frozen credit markets creating so much calamity out there. Instead of debt securities that change…
- October 27th, 2008
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My Presidential Endorsement
That’s it. I’ve had enough. Even though I disagree with Obama’s economic policies, as I understand them, I want him to win. It’s his intellectualism and character that I’m voting for. It’s…
- October 24th, 2008
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Friends vs. Homeboys
Out there in the world, the terms “homeboy” and “homey” have come to be more benign regarding gang affiliations. Here in prison however, it much more often that not, means, “friend within th…
- October 23rd, 2008
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Prediction Markets D&D and Penpals
I’ve had three ideas of late that may interest you. The first, I’ve broached before, but want to reiterate. Namely, that prediction markets have proven time and again to more presciently pick prob…
- October 22nd, 2008
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The Philosophical Diet
The key to successful dieting (or permanently changing one’s diet, to be more precise) is none other than philosophy. To view life in terms of principles demands that one choose life or death (ratio…
- October 21st, 2008
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Stock Tip Tuesday 10.21.08 (# 2)
Boy are these rough waters! I can't help but be of the opinion that the market is overreacting severely to the downside. I'm aware of the multiple vicious cycles eviscerating the economy. I'm aware of…
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Stock Tip Tuesday--10.21.08
Thus far this year, I’ve made three buy/sell paired calls. The first was in March, when I recommended (and did, in my own account) selling Exelon at $79.75 and buying United Natural Foods at $16.50.…
- October 20th, 2008
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Sac Fly
The sacrifice/investment dichotomy has been the chief culprit for the past few centuries in myriad philosophical misconstrues. The term sacrifice’s connotations have morphed into a gross inversion o…
- October 17th, 2008
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A Political Epiphany
I recently had a political epiphany. Basically, the most successful politicians within a political system are literally physical manifestations of the fundamental values of that particular political s…
- October 16th, 2008
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Derivative Justice
A few posts back, I committed a gross misrepresentation. I expressed the notion that any slack between justice within the realm of consciousness and justice within the realm of existence, itself const…
- October 15th, 2008
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Just Like You
When I was first incarcerated, my quasi-girlfriend at the time hung around for a few months. The last time I ever spoke to her was during a phone conversation on a collect call from the county jail wh…
- October 14th, 2008
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Stock Tip Tuesday--10.14.08
So I’m finally in the craft shop! Aside from our main initiative, my partners and I have decided to move forward with our plans to trade futures spreads. When I did this last year, solely using seas…
- October 13th, 2008
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Life is Death
The rapper Nas’s latest song, “My Life”, ends with this line:“My life used to be empty like a glock without a round. Now it’s full like a choppa with a thousand rounds!”To define his terms…
- October 10th, 2008
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My Take on the Crisis So Far
The other day, in a soundbite of a televised speech McCain gave, he lambasted - to paraphrase - "those on Wall Street, at the top, the self interest, the greed...sapping the working man..." And this i…
- October 9th, 2008
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Pen Pals and Deception
Before beginning this post, I suggest all my readers read my old "Intellectual Inmate's Pen Pal Paradox" post from around mid-April. It detailed a dynamic that I hypothesized was at play regarding my…
- October 8th, 2008
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My Four Approaches
In my attempting to be a theoretical innovator, I find that I push the envelope most by using one or more of four approaches/themes: taking concepts to their logical ends, showing the polar opposites…
- October 3rd, 2008
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Trying to Help
I don't know if I informed you guys, but I got another celli a couple of weeks ago. They recently relaxed the forced integration policy, and enforced strict age and weight restrictions (celli must be…
- October 2nd, 2008
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Irrationalizing Truth
Whereas many rationalize a falsehood against all evidence, I’m guilty of “irrationalizing” a truth against all evidence. For instance, I’m in the process of getting into the craftshop here, so…
- October 1st, 2008
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Illness vs. Vice in Healthcare
I notice that in all the articles and debates about universal healthcare coverage, the concept of morality is oft strewn about, yet never is there an utterance of the concept of justice. While the lat…
- September 26th, 2008
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Values Trump Nationalism
For the first time in my life, I finally arrived at the level of awareness necessary to ascertain the fundamental, hidden philosophical theme of the Olympics. I noticed first, that all the beach volle…
- September 25th, 2008
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"Right or Wrong" Tribalism
The flawed concept atop which all tribalism stagnates - and which untold numbers of inmates subscribe to - is what I'll call the "right or wrong" mindset. Basically, when one is part of the group, the…
- September 24th, 2008
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A Friendly Reminder
In case you haven't been reading Prison Proxy since its inception in June 2007, here's a reiteration of what it's all about, as well as information regarding contacting Texas Inmate...This blog is a p…
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Trying to Argue Logically Against Racism
Today we had that girl, whom I'd recently referred to as appealing, work in our wing again. Once again quasi-smitten, I asked my celli if he'd "be with her". "No", he replied. Knowing why, I then aske…
- September 23rd, 2008
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Remorse and Rehabilitation
I don't think most people understand the true relationship between remorse and rehabilitation. Philosophically, they're mutually inclusive and chronologically, remorse is the spark for rehabilitation.…
- September 19th, 2008
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The Paradox of a Justified Prison Escape
Whether flipping through the photographed landscapes of Peru in Forbes FYI, or peering out the barred window at the tree-and-farmhouse-dotted horizons skirting the prison's perimeter, all inmates have…
- September 18th, 2008
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Another Celli, but a Pleasant Surprise
I got a new celli again the other day. For the first time however, as luck would have it, they moved in someone that I already know quite well, and get along with just fine. He's a smart kid, young -…
- September 17th, 2008
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Why be a Female Correctional Officer in a Male Prison?
Continuing on the female correctional officer theme, I believe I've figured out why the vast majority of them - no matter what age, shape, or size - enjoy, above and beyond the male correctional offic…
- September 16th, 2008
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Stock Tip Tuesday 9.16.08
A stock I'm very bullish on and heartily recommend is Corning. Granted, as I amassed much of my position in bubbly 2007, I'm down around 20% thus far. Earnings since then however, are up 36%, and I'm…
- September 15th, 2008
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The Intellectual Inmate's Pretty Prison Guard Paradox
The other day, we had a very appealing young lady officer working in our wing. Not gorgeous, but both shapely and feminine. What I was most attracted to however, was a value I perceived in her, that,…
- September 12th, 2008
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The Philosophy of Dieting
Tomorrow marks thirty days that I've gone without any pastries, cookies and candy. Granted, I didn't live on the stuff prior to that. I ate it in moderation, but I've come to view consuming pastries i…
- September 11th, 2008
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High School
I recently read an article about the latest High School Musical (3, I believe). In it, the lead guy commented on this last show being analogous to high school itself. He said “all have to grow up an…
- September 10th, 2008
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A Wine Party in Prison
Last night, a pride of average prisoners got drunk. Wine is made fairly easily in prison, with various contraptions and substances. So, when I went into the dayroom last night, utterly oblivious to th…
- September 9th, 2008
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Sometimes, It's the Rules
There’s a rule on the books here that states an inmate can only live in a cell with another inmate who’s within 9 years of age, 40 lbs of his weight, and some number of inches of his height (I can…
- September 8th, 2008
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TexasInmate has posted a new entry on: Prison Proxy
The Friend Detector
We’re all familiar with the old saying “fair weather friends”; most likely in theory and in practice. The term “weather” herein connotes situations. Situations however, are not the primary f…
- September 5th, 2008
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Learning through Blogging
I had an idea for a potentially radical innovation in the field of education. Perhaps a “Teaching 2.0” of sorts. Basically, it’s a new way of formulating lesson plans. Take myself: the two subje…
- September 4th, 2008
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The Spectrum of Awareness
Imagine the spectrum of awareness as a number line. At zero, there is the least amount of awareness, and I daresay, the greatest conglomeration of humanity. Awareness then, increases by degrees going…
