Posted in Current Affairs on Feb 12th, 2012
In Case You missed It: Satire – sometimes the best antidote to madness Satire is sometimes the best antidote to madness, and if you want a few laughs about the utter stupidity of the times we are living in, I can recommend one movie which, not surprisingly perhaps, is called Idiocracy. It was released in [...]
Posted in Current Affairs on Feb 3rd, 2012
Decadence and Disconnection In the last few days, two separate incidents have reminded me yet again of the extraordinary times we are living in. A veritable “fin de siecle” – the end of an era. The phrase comes France at the end of 19th century – just before Two World Wars, A Great Depression and [...]
Posted in Current Affairs on Jan 31st, 2012
In Case You Missed It – Some Inconvenient Truths about Iran and the Nuclear Question British journalist Robert Fisk has spent his professional life reporting from the Middle East for The Independent newspaper in London. He has broken many scoops and written many stories exposing the lies and hypocrisy of governments in the region and [...]
Posted in Current Affairs, Life skills on Jan 17th, 2012
The Death of Common Sense – a witty obituary and indictment of our time These days there seems to be an absolute dearth of common sense. How many times have you caught yourself saying, “That’s crazy!” when some new regulation is announced, or politicians and economists declare their total faith in endless growth on a [...]
Posted in Current Affairs on Jan 12th, 2012
In Case You Missed It – Now even US citizens can be imprisoned indefinitely without trial So much seems to be happening these days and everyone seems to be so busy and have so little time (so much for time-saving machines!) that I’ve decided to start a new occasional series to try to bring [...]
Posted in Current Affairs on Jan 3rd, 2010
There is nothing inevitable about the destruction of tribal societies. What is happening today to the Yanomami in the Amazon, and to many other peoples worldwide, is the deliberate theft of land and killing of people, as has happened wherever Europeans have landed on foreign shores. Apologists seeking to explain this subjugation as the unhappy consequence [...]
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