Meat machine
One of Dean Koontz's Frankenstein books has a scene where a supernatural being is arguing with another supernatural being. The second insists that he is a person with feelings. The first taunts "meat...
View ArticleThey won't even try to lie to you anymore
Looking back on it, I think the 90s and the early 00s were a more genteel time, in which people had the courtesy to openly deceive you. I remember this period well; I was living in Harlem (my Jamaican...
View ArticlePrivacy and education records
Quick question: If I provide my medical records to a school's ADA office and they disclose its contents, along with my grades, to a third party without my prior knowledge or permission, is that a...
View ArticleGimme a shot of that old time competence
When I was a kid, I studied Latin. Vesuvius and its eruption figured prominently into my lessons. I saw a photo once that was of an artists' rendering of what it was like for ancient Romans to flee the...
View ArticleGuts
http://www.rawstory.com/...According to the above link, "A northwest Indiana Republican has backtracked on outrageous comments he made on Facebook about poor people.John Johnston, who is challenging...
View ArticleLibertarian utopia
About thirty minutes after Memorial Day ended I got a text message congenially asking how I'm doing. A quick google revealed that the solicitude came from bitcoin, a company best known for the idea...
View ArticleThe de-nazification of South Carolina
In February 1945, Winston Churchill, FDR, and Stalin made a decision. They would wipe out the Nazi party. And wipe it out they did. They tackled the Nazi ideology and tore it out, root and branch. They...
View ArticleBullshit Jobs
A few months ago, I read a blog with the premise that although we do not need full employment to prosper, we are trapped in a mindset that claims otherwise and this we create make work for the masses....
View ArticleDonald Trump wants.....
All the discussions about Donald Trump largely miss the point. Donald Trump is not a Nazi. He is not a racist. He is not a Republican, or an authoritarian, or a conservative.All of those are beliefs. A...
View ArticleBernie needs to get with that old time religion
I’m a Jew of Eastern European extraction. My family was wrecked by Hungary’s obliging arrow cross, the local fascist outfit that zestfully deported 400,000+ people to concentration camps. Then the...
View ArticleHillary supporters learn to love Jim Crow
It is not easy to be a Hillary Clinton supporter. From the time Bill and Hill embarked on a campaign for the White House in 1991, they were a team, two for the price of one. This meant of course that...
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