All together now
All over the world, religion and fascism are, separately or together, driving the people of the world collectively insane.
History
Probably not
When Rupert Murdoch looks at Donald Trump, and the return of Fascism around the world, and the now irreversible destruction of the planet, is he capable of feeling shame?
A visitor from outside science
I see the Daily Mail has picked up the story that “Oumuamua”, the “visiting” rock whose origins lay outside our solar system, might be an alien artefact with a light sail, say a couple of scientists. This kind of “science” is science fake news, tabloid science. Bad enough when it is based on poor reporting
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Countries with McDonald’s
I had thought the rule was that America simply hated socialist countries and did its best to destroy them in case people elsewhere might discover that there was an economic alternative to American controlled capitalism in their countries. But that doesn’t explain the hatred of people like Trump and Bolton for Iran. So a more
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Tweedledum and …
Communism and Capitalism are two apparently different mechanisms for ensuring that the same kinds of people gain power in society.
Down down, IQ is down
After seventy-odd (and seventy odd) years of life I keep thinking I have seen and heard all the worst of human stupidity. But then I read something said by a woman in a red cap, or a crackpot fundamentalist (of any religion), or a loopy flat earther, or a mad-brained creationist, or a Dunning-Kruger climate
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Back to front
So it is blasphemous to “insult” an imaginary being that doesn’t exist, but it isn’t blasphemous to attack science, rationality, and the real world?
In the shadows
Searching for memories of childhood and youth. Events that were once full of colour and sound and movement and excitement and familiar people and places, are now, at best, faded shadows words forgotten, places unpictured names and faces beyond recall.
Make a list
When fascists gain power there first instinct is to destroy the environment – boost coal burning, get rid of national parks and conservation measures cut down the Amazon jungle. That will show the World who’s boss.