How did freedom to believe religious nonsense come to outweigh all other freedoms in society? Perhaps those of us on the liberal/progressive side of politics need to invent an imaginary friend, a sort of mascot, for ourselves. Not hard of course, the specifications are invisibility and absolutely no measurable effects in the real world while […]
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The rising tide of American fascism: In 2010, we saw Rand Paul and Mike Lee get elected. In 2012, we saw Ted Cruz get elected. In 2014, we saw Dave Brat get elected. In 2016 , we saw Donald Trump get elected. Now in 2017 we’re seeing the rise of Judge Roy Moore.
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Clogs to clogs to boots to shoes to rubber boots to sandals to dancing shoes to clogs to…..
These boots are made for Read More »
I guess other doomed planets have discovered this before us. When you are faced with global warming because you are burning fossil fuels it will prove impossible to stop the disaster because of the efforts of a small number of noisy rich evil people, and a somewhat larger, but still small, number of useful idiots
And love, and sadness, and happiness, and triumph, and disappointment, and pleasure, and pain, and regret, and joy, and astonishment, and forgetfulness, and memory, and grief, and contentment, and bitterness, and…. And all the other nouns and verbs and adjectives that increase in number with age.
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There\’s never a good time to have businessmen running a country
Profits in their own country Read More »
Conservatives can cause people to vote against their own interests
Everywhere, it seems Read More »
