Here’s more stuff from my closet.
Here’s more stuff from my closet.
I think that the chart is probably conservative; there are a lot of undeclared conflicts that look a lot like war to the victims but aren’t because it’s not convenient to use the W-word.
It seems like everyone’s got a solution for North Korea. Naturally, I like my own the best: diplomacy. But that doesn’t work for authoritarians.
The CIA regularly deals with nasty people. Probably, it’s got something to do with the fact that they are nasty people, too.
Apparently Stanislav Petrov died in May, but the news simply didn’t get around.
The other day I posted a photo I found when looking for images about the many bombings that took place in the US in 1968.
Every national religion has a tendency to make man vain, unsocial, and wicked; the first step toward humanity is to permit each one to follow peacefully the worship and the opinions which suit him.
Did you know it’s “Constitution Day”? I didn’t.
I’m going to do a small series of postings extracted from an archive of video interviews that I made in 2010. It was one of those projects that (so far) has died a horrible “death from success.”
There’s been a great deal of conversation about de-platforming and the free speech of some proto-fascists, or homophobes, or white supremacists.