What If The Governments of the World Were Run Like Game Shows? (2/2)
TRUTH OR CONSEQUENCES Contestants will don the uniform of their countries secret police to torment detainees, both legitimate and innocent, for information. The players will be judged on both the quality of the information acquired and the inventiveness of…
What If The Governments of the World Were Run Like Game Shows? (1/2)
In many countries of the world the government is the sole producer of all television broadcasting. They decide what will be aired, what will be written, who will star in what and who will be shot for making the wrong…
Buddhism May be the Religion of Peace… But Hitch Was Having None of it
Hitchens once said these very striking words: Far from his holier-than-all image, the Dalai Lama supports such questionable causes as India’s nuclear testing, sex with prostitutes and accepting donations from a Japanese terrorist cult. *** Oh dear. Somebody tell Hollywood….
Acceptable & Unacceptable Collectivism
“Gay community” good, Russian nationalist homophobia bad. “Jewish community” good, Nazi stormtroopers bad. “Muslim community” good, BNP bad. “Transgender community” good, GOP God-botherers bad.
Who is More Callous? A Neocon Extremist or an Islamist Extremist?
Christopher Hitchens & Ayatollah Khomeini. One is a violent extremist and vicious radical ideologue who held the lives of innocent human beings in exceedingly low esteem. The other one…
Do It Yourself Future News Headlines
If you look at enough different newspapers enough different times you find things can be quite similar. The rags always seem to be re-circulating the same type of newsworthy cadavers again and again. The names and the places change, but…
George Osborne Facing Possible Death Sentence in Indonesia for Cocaine Offenses
Former UK Chancellor of the Exchequer George Osborne (formerly known as Gideon Osborne) has recently been arrested for drug possession and trafficking offenses in Indonesia.
European Court of Justice: No Headscarf Ban, No Pandering to Religions
This is just stupid clickbait from the Whitetop BBC! Regardless of the unduly inflammatory headline, it’s about the wearing of “any political, philosophical or religious sign.”
Trots Vs Tories: Is this the Only Possible Option?
In a well developed economy, you can’t have wealth without reasonable distribution. You can’t have reasonable distribution without wealth. This leads to only one reasonable conclusion: Mixed economies are the realistic, pragmatic approach in a world that has a reality…
The Destructive Effects of Capitalism
I wanted to read an article entitled “The Destructive Effects of Capitalism.” It was written by an intellectual who was somewhat right about most everything except practicality. He’s one of those people who writes a lot of those sounds good, won’t…