Category: Serious Commentary
9/12/2001 – The Days After The Unthinkable Happened – Part 12 ‘The New Capitol’
9/12/2001 – THE DAYS AFTER THE UNTHINKABLE HAPPENED – Part 12 – The New Capitol (A serial book excerpt) Previous installments – After Flight 93 crashes into the White House on 9/11/2001 killing President Bush as was originally planned, Dick…
Fundamentalist Anti-Welfare: the “True Individualist” Position? (2/2)
Just to forestall any snap objections, I am not suggesting that “the government” or “the state” is the automatic go-to for all conflicts of interest.
Fundamentalist Anti-Welfare: the “True Individualist” Position? (1/2)
Maybe it’s time the individuals saved ourselves from the individualists. Or more precisely, from those who speak in the name of all individualists; as though there could only be one model of individualism; a vulgar-Randian one.
9/12/2001 – The Days After The Unthinkable Happened – Part 10
9/12/2001 THE DAYS AFTER THE UNTHINKABLE HAPPENED Part 10 (A serial book excerpt) Previous installments – After Flight 93 crashes into the White House on 9/11/2001 killing President Bush as was originally planned, Dick Cheney, the Vice President, is made…
Who Committed Mass Atrocities in the Balkans? (2/2)
Last time: Q: Who gets to decide what is a ‘Genocide’ or a ‘Crime Against Humanity,’ and what is merely a series of purportedly less serious war crimes or atrocities? A: Whoever has the power to do so. … It’s…
Who Committed Mass Atrocities in the Balkans? (1/2)
Quick question: Who was it that committed mass atrocities in the Balkans?
9/12/2001 – The Days After The Unthinkable Happened – Part 9
9/12/2001 – THE DAYS AFTER THE UNTHINKABLE HAPPENED – Part 9 (A serial book excerpt) Previous installments – After Flight 93 crashes into the White House on 9/11/2001 killing President Bush as was originally planned, Dick Cheney, the Vice President,…
9/12/2001 – The Days After The Unthinkable Happened – Part 8 – The Top Dog Meeting
9/12/2001 – THE DAYS AFTER THE UNTHINKABLE HAPPENED – Part 8 (A serial book excerpt) Previous installments – READ THEM HERE: Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, Part 5, Part 6, Part 7. The atmosphere in the meeting…
9/12/2001 – The Days After The Unimaginable Happened – Part 7 – the Iraq Factor
9/12/2001 – The Days After The Unimaginable Happened – Part 7 – The Iraq Factor (A serial book excerpt) After President Bush is killed when Flight 93 strikes the White House on 9/11, Vice President Cheney ascends to the throne….
Racist Murders at Charleston: All in This Together? (2/2)
Last time, I acknowledged that all forms of prejudice are complex, and cannot be seen as corresponding one-to-one with each other. However, while making these qualifications, I also took the risk of drawing an analogy between racism and sexism. And…