Don Knotts

Peace be upon you, Don Knotts.

Olympic Partying

"Me, it's been an awesome two weeks," Bode Miller said. "I got to party and socialize at an Olympic level."

Class Containers

Class comes up. For some that would be an understatement. For some analysts, class more than "comes up," it suffuses all aspects of life. For some of my friends, class also more than "comes up," I can't stop talking about it. The combination of these two forms of a single understatement have inspired me to write this post.

What is class? How important is it to understanding our world?

In a Marxist sense, class is based on those who have capital (modes of production) and those who have labor. These categories/classes waver depending on the historical period at hand.

In a biological sense, class is a level of classification between phylum and order. There are subclasses in this reckoning.

There are a few other notions of class out there, many of which will be important to this discussion.

What do you think of when you think, "class?"

Offer a Pome to the Four Winds

If you will, use this image as inspiration.