Regular readers know I am avowed atheist. While I have a specific disdain for Christianity because of the prevailing culture and my upbringing, my rejection of religion is ecumenical. Islam is no better or worse than Mormonism. Now I’m not militant about it, I don’t feel I have a life purpose debunking your belief in …
Tag: ek Politics
Dec 10 2015
No Trump
This post is going to be way too long anyway so I’ll keep my commentary to a minimum (the title refers to a Bridge bid). The thing about The Donald, the reason he’s so popular and remains that way, is that he expresses the rage people feel at the current Neoliberal governing consensus. As Ian …
Dec 09 2015
A Bad Idea To Begin With
As you may know there is a subset of performing artists who are deeply offended that in the age of the Internet traditional business models don’t work anymore. Digital replication is fairly easy, pervasive, and basically free. I told you CDs were a bad idea, but did you listen? Noooo… That genie is out of …
Dec 07 2015
The Neoliberal View
Is Greece a country or not? Greece is a Nation Under Occupation By Raúl Ilargi Meijer, Naked Capitalism December 6, 2015 Athens is very capable of protecting its borders, but it has stated -quite correctly, it would seem- that it protects its borders from enemies, and the refugees are not enemies. The reason the refugees …
Dec 07 2015
Rio
She just doesn’t see. The Sax is Stan Getz. Rio 2016: ‘Chance of infection very likely’ after tests show extent of pollution Associated Press Wednesday 2 December 2015 12.21 EST Olympic sailor Erik Heil floated a novel idea to protect himself from the sewage-infested waters he and other athletes will compete in during next year’s …
Dec 05 2015
Yes, we have no bananas.
Frankly, I don’t like them. Tasteless sticks of Potassium (and if your blood levels are over 5 or under 4 you’re actually in a world of hurt as I found out the last time my doctors tried to kill me), but fortunately there are other choices like Orange Juice and Spinach that also provide some …
Dec 05 2015
USA! USA!
You may wonder why I’m depressed. U.S. First Shields Its Torturers and War Criminals From Prosecution, Now Officially Honors Them by Glenn Greenwald, The Intercept Dec. 4 2015, 5:43 a.m. As vice president, Dick Cheney was a prime architect of the worldwide torture regime implemented by the U.S. government (which extended far beyond waterboarding), as …
Dec 03 2015
Good News on GMO From Costco!
Perhaps you have responded with horror, as I have, to the news that the FDA has approved genetically engineered Salmon for human consumption. The danger is not that you will turn into some three eyed zombie monster because you eat it or even that your children will (though it is too soon to tell, in …
Dec 03 2015
Dog Bites Man
TMC and I have our philosophical disagreements and this is one. I think the Second Amendment is explicitly about the ability of a populace armed with state of the art military weapons to rise in rebellion against an oppressive government. I sometimes refer to this as my ‘nuke in every pot’ theory and argue that …
Dec 02 2015
Not A Coverup
Why, it was just a lone wolf. Cops didn’t know this camera caught them deleting video of the murder of Laquan McDonald Free Thought Project, Raw Story 01 Dec 2015 at 17:17 ET Accused of deleting the surveillance video of 17-year-old Laquan McDonald’s death, several officers appeared in recently released screenshots tampering with Burger King’s …
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