"Of what avail are any laws, where money rules alone, Where Poverty can never win its cases? Detractors of the times, who bear the Cynic's scrip, are known To often sell the truth, … [Read more...]
On Asking Experts, Part Two, Or, What’s An LBGT Voter To Do?
A monk asked Ma-tsu [Baso]: What is Buddha? Ma-tsu replied: "The mind is Buddha" A monk asked Ma-tsu: What is Buddha? Ma-tsu replied: "The mind is not Buddha" --From the book "Zen Flesh, Zen Bones: A Collection of Zen and Pre-Zen Writings", … [Read more...]
On “Military Endorsements”, Or, Another Weird Christine O’Donnell Story
So here's the deal: as I mentioned, Christine O'Donnell, perennial Senate candidate from Delaware, has a "Christine O'Donnell for Senate" MySpace page associated with her 2008 Senate campaign, and she has a "Friend Space" on that page. As … [Read more...]
On Asking Experts, Part One, Or, Do Democrats Really Understand Their LBGT Problem?
"We were liberated not only empty-handed but left in the power of a people who resented our emancipation as an act of unjust punishment to them. They were therefore armed with a motive for doing everything in their power to render our … [Read more...]
Halliburton Gets $2 Billion Contract For Florida “Cardboard Condos”
Nearly two years in development, the new product, officially known as the Emergency Living Device, Experimental, Regular Length, Yard (ELDERLY), is a response to the 2014 privatization of the Social Security program and the 2016 stock … [Read more...]
On Why Voting Matters, Or, Could You Outrun The Toxic Red Flood?
"...Oui, ma foi, c'est un bougre déterminé..." --A sailor aboard the French ship Héros describing his Admiral, Pierre André de Suffren de Saint Tropez, 1783. Quoted from the book "Command at Sea", by Oliver Warner. So here's the long and … [Read more...]
After Bathtub Accident, O’Donnell Changes Position
O'Donnell's new position, said to be one of several she assumed during Saturday's "Eureka Moment", is that a situation such as hers in now acceptable: individuals who are either showering or bathing while thinking about policy issues or … [Read more...]
On Fence-Straddling, Or, And Now, A Few Words From Blanche Lincoln
And there is still this most difficult question of all: If we are eventually fortunate enough to find truth, who among us will know how to make good use of it? --Jean Jacques Rousseau, "Discourse on the Arts and Sciences" So here's the … [Read more...]
On Fear: The Islam Edition, Or, Do You Know My Friend Wa’el?
This world is a comedy to those who think, a tragedy to those that feel --Horace Walpole, Fourth Earl of Orford, in a letter, August, 1776 So all of this took place at Newsvine...and if you're not familiar with how things work there, users … [Read more...]
On Living With Idiots, Or, An Open Letter To Islam
So you're going to be hearing a lot about this disturbed guy in Florida who thinks that he can save the world by burning Qu'rans on September 11th-and you're going to be asking yourselves: "Why would America allow anyone to do that?" Well, … [Read more...]
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