Clik here to view.
Divide and Fall
Yes. Lately this space has been more focused on the social analysis with a bit of lean towards the politics. That shouldn’t come as too much of a surprise really. These things are tightly related,...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Surprised? No. Outraged? Yes!
Let me begin with a question. It is a simple question. We’ll come back to the context in a moment. In all seriousness. Why are you surprised? Or, perhaps, better, why would anyone be surprised? The...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Apathetic After Shock
There has been a lot of talk recently, of course, about Edward Snowden and traitors. There has been a great deal of public gnashing of teeth and wailing by our elected leaders over his release of the...
View ArticleClik here to view.
If it don’t fit, get a bigger hammer
We as a society are not very rational. That shouldn’t come as a surprise to anyone. Not really. We are fractured along so many lines that the best image of us might be Frankenstein’s monster. It...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Same as The Old Boss
You thought you were getting something different? “Hollywood” hasn’t been giving you anything different for years, and you bought it. While the critics have analyzed it all and told you how great and...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Into the Looking Glass
I watched a video this week that I think was very powerful. I would really like you to take the 7 minutes 37 seconds of your life to watch it, and then let us have an intimate little chat, shall we?...
View ArticleClik here to view.
Are You A Crab?
People are so easily confused. Mathematically if a = b and b = c, then a = c, and we can say that a and c are the same. In the real world though, being equal and being the same are not synonyms....
View ArticleClik here to view.
More Failed Political Theatre
July 24, 2013 – The “Amash Amendment” was voted down. What was this amendment, you might wonder? It got very little coverage really, so you wouldn’t be so out of line to ask. The Amash amendment,...
View ArticleClik here to view.
The Only Thing We Have to Fear Is…
I have written before on the purpose that fairy tales served in our not too distant past before they were sanitized and Disneyfied. In short, they were very useful for keeping children in line. Fear....
View ArticleClik here to view.
Crime and Punishment, Military-Style: Robert Bales and Nidal Malik Hasan :...
No disparity here: – One dark-skinned Muslim with an Arab name kills two American soldiers. He is put to death. – A second dark-skinned Muslim with an Arab name kills thirteen American soldiers. He,...
View Article