As screwed up as our society is, we all need to keep in mind that most Americans are not Charlie Kirk. Yes, the media is raking in uncountable amounts of money by sensationalizing his assassination but let keep this in …
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Was Solar Thermal a Scam?
The meme here implies that solar thermal was ill-conceived from the start. Here’s a fair assessment of what happened: Near the close of the 20th Century, the world began to recognize an intense need to replace the fossil fuel sources …
Political Activists Haven’t Given Up, Though These Are Troubling Times
Russian Anarchist Emma Goldman was once named the most dangerous woman in America by the FBI, and at the left we can see why. Her views resemble that of John Lennon, i.e., we have the capacity to build a world …
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An Educated People Are a Dangerous People
Throughout history, there have been many social critics who have observed that public education represents a real danger to the ruling class. Here’s what George Carlin said on the subject: Governments don’t want well informed, well educated people capable of …
What Makes the World so Crazy?
It’s easy to look at the pic here and say, “Well of course people got along back then; it’s a group of hippies. What did you expect? OK, well let’s ask ourselves what the conservatives were doing 50 years ago. …
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Life on the Edge
Donald Trump is the only thing young people know about the American presidency: rude, classless, and sociopathic. The rest of us have lived through 10 – 15 presidential administrations and see that it’s only a matter of time before Trump …
What It Means to Call Yourself a Conservative Has Changed a Great Deal Recently
Where did all this ignorance, violence, and bald-face lying come from?
A Slob in the White House Is a Very New Thing for America
America has fallen off a cliff when it comes to class, but do any of us deserve to be disgraced like this?
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Let’s Replace George Washington with Charlie Kirk on the U.S. Quarter
The American ultra-right-wing is lining up a heap of posthumous praise on Charlie Kirk. Of course, not everyone feels the same, like the author of the meme at left, who points out that Kirk was merely a podcaster. My problem …
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Persist, Resist
Here we have a few words of Epictetus, one of the Stoic philosophers, whose thoughts are characterized by the idea that our lives should not be cushy, but rather the opposite, guided by self-sacrifice in order to live by the …
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