~~~ Conspiracy theorist Trump supporter Tony Tenpenny who dismissed coronavirus as ‘socialist’ hoax is killed by disease Tony Tenpenny, 57, a former councillor from Nashville, who had said the pandemic was part of a “socialist agenda” and had been over-exaggerated, died over the weekend as a result of complications from COVID-19. Vice Mayor Jim Shulman […]
If you read the criteria for nomination, some of us might qualify: Members of national assemblies and national governments (cabinet members/ministers) of sovereign states as well as current heads of state University professors, professors emeriti and associate professors of history, social sciences, law, philosophy, theology, and religion; university rectors and university directors (or their equivalents); […]
Consider the universality of this terror from Night of the Living Dead (1968): At this hour, we repeat, these are the facts as we know them. There is an epidemic of mass murder being committed by a virtual army of unidentified assassins. The murders are taking place in villages and cities, in rural homes and […]
~~~ Europe’s remaining ancient forests ‘in perilous state’ and require immediate protection, scientists warn In Europe, millennia of land use has significantly altered and impacted the majority of forested landscapes and very few forests remain with minimal signs of human use – less than 4 per cent of existing forested areas. When humans do good […]
It turns out that assimilation is nonsense: The 33-year-old cop, Baimadajie Angwang, who was born in the region of Tibet in China, allegedly reported to officials at the Chinese consulate in New York on the activities of other Tibetans in the New York area. People have allegiance to whatever gives them identity, which in a […]
Liars can prove to be dangerous, evil, subversive, sneaky and perhaps even demnic in nature. Then, when they screw up and accidentally provide a glance of truth, the liar is utterly undone by their own incompetence. Wikipedia has long published lies by leaving out vital parts of the truth, but its recent attempt to control […]
Segregation, Integration, Assimilation, Separation: the four are in a common and uncommon relationship with each other, being opposite…with a presence that corresponds with each other but with independence identified only with two of the four. Assimilation is an enemy to integration and separation but to integration and separation the two respect each other independence. Segregation […]
Back in the 1980s, the “USA Today Effect” took over journalism, so by the 1990s, most journalists were just typing out press releases or calling people on the phone to get statements. They never went into the field; it was more important to produce content than maintain quality. This led to journalism reaching its peak […]
A friend was bemoaning the loss acquaintances because of her political views. It seems that she had spoken out against some sacred cows including the welfare state, women in the workforce, and diversity. This prompted her erstwhile friends to back away slowly and ignore her. From the broader perspective of history, her sin was speaking […]
Those who have never had to make hard decisions should avoid it. It’s bad for the ego. If you can’t, here’s what you are getting into. A decision that involves any of the following: emotional baggage, lots of power, and lots of money, the welfare of a large group of people, or the welfare of […]
~~~ Charleston sues 24 fossil fuel companies, seeks money for climate change damages Charleston officials filed a lawsuit Wednesday against 24 fossil fuel companies, claiming that because they contributed to climate change — and misled the public about the danger its products posed to the environment —they should have to bear the cost of repairing […]
Nietzsche talks about sensitives as if they were scientific instruments, simply capable of more discernment and more precise membership. Perhaps Hans Christian Andersen can clear up this meaning with the story of the Princess and the Pea: One evening a terrible storm came on; there was thunder and lightning, and the rain poured down in […]
The curious case of Mandy Moore gives us some insight: Mandy’s maternal grandmother was an English war bride, who also had some Irish ancestry. Mandy’s maternal grandfather was a Jewish American soldier, of Russian Jewish and Galician Jewish descent. Once you start mixing, you just go further into the process. Irish people are part Mediterranean, […]
Amid the slow crackling of burning buildings and the shouts and screams from everyone around him, Billy could hear the low yet dismal sound of a large truck. He turned in both confusion and wonder at the truck as it pulled up beside him. On the side was the word “Blue” and nothing else, other […]
It has come to pass that Joe Biden hired an ex-GNAA security expert to run cybersecurity for his campaign: Jackie Singh, who joined the Biden campaign in July as a senior cyber incident responder and threat analyst, was an affiliate of the hacking organization the Gay N—– Association of America, once headed by white nationalist […]
Sometimes, when reading something entirely unrelated, one finds a concept which possesses the mind because it perfectly describes a situation we find elsewhere. Patterns repeat across different contexts — Varg calls this syncretic eclecticism — and so we can use ideas like the attractive nuisance: [A] doctrine of tort law under which a person who […]
From a recent profile: Mr. Billy said, “Once I knew an old man who smoked a pipe. He took great care in stuffing his pipe. The old man would start loading his pipe by putting just a pinch of tobacco in the bottom of the bowl. Then he would carefully smooth the tobacco around the […]
~~~ Pro-Trump group pays teens to post online Teenagers, some of them minors, are being paid to pump out the messages at the direction of Turning Point Action, an affiliate of Turning Point USA, a prominent conservative youth organization based in Phoenix, according to four people with independent knowledge of the effort. Their descriptions were […]
Financial planning is not just boring. It is also painful. It’s not that you don’t have options; you just don’t typically have good ones. By good, I mean you don’t have options where you can eat your cake and have it later as well. Every two weeks or so, you get a pay stub telling […]
It’s not a pleasant thing when the monkey grabs the car keys. It gets less pleasant if said primate knows exactly where to insert the key and turn. The loud and predictable bang may well spell the end of your poor and loyal Family Truckster. This is easy to comprehend and probably worth an evil […]
~~~ As Arab Gulf starts opening to Israel, Palestinians face a reckoning The Palestinians’ strategy centers on holding Israel to account in international legal tribunals, and trying to break the United States’ dominance over the Israeli-Palestinian peace process, Baconi said. “Arab and European support in that strategy is crucial, but it is questionable that the […]
Sea change happens from the details, and only later do people give it a name and conclude it was an event. Natural systems respond this way; instead of centralized control, they react to consistency of change and adapt, which means you rarely see it coming. Yesterday, Ann Coulter fired one of the most important shots […]
And so the order went out, by the authority of the Government, that all citizens of Murka (the new phonetic spelling of the old name) must line up from coast to coast so that the new policy could be enacted upon them. In Long Beach, California, the line began, and stretched across the entirety of […]
Democracy destroys intellectual integrity because at some point, parties strategize to get votes instead of maintaining a consistent position.1 This same condition blights conservatism, which stands for an unchanging ideal but will always be tempted to pursue the more popular notions of individualism and group solidarity through compromise, both of which erode meaning and make […]
I’ve come up with a reason both brilliant and profound to prevent another 9/11. I’m sick up to here of hearing all about the first one. In the interest of not giving either (((Max Boot))) or (((Bill Kristol))) another reason to bloviate and receive undeserved attention or remuneration, and athwart the imposition of another USA […]
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