I’ve been wondering that, myself. Presumably the answer is somewhere between “yuge” and “outrageous.”
I’ve been wondering that, myself. Presumably the answer is somewhere between “yuge” and “outrageous.”
The US has always been a racist apartheid state; it’s just been trying to claw its way from that abyss for a few decades and has been back-sliding pretty badly lately. The recent kerfuffle about the Trump Administration’s adding racially charged questions to the census is not even remotely new.
The Guardian has a thought-provoking article about the race to develop a replacement for Viagra. [guard]
I’m an unapologetic packrat. So, a few years ago, I decided to resolve that problem by stipulating in my will that my executor get rid of all my stuff at an estate sale. It’s a form of recycling and nobody who cares about me or my stuff will have to sort through it and figure it out. Don’t worry for them, the potassium cyanide is clearly labelled.
MK-ULTRA was one of the CIA’s programs devoted to mind-control. It became part of the whole “mind control” memeosphere related to “manchurian candidates” in the late 1950s/early 1960s.
Stop me if you’ve heard this before: a group of people in authority have a separate, secret, process for policing themselves.
Do you keep track (loosely) of nuclear proliferation? I feel sometimes that there’s something odd about me, the way I am constantly keeping my ear to the ground about the various governments that are building these horrible monstrous things designed to destroy us all in a bath of light and fire.
Every normal man must be tempted, at times, to spit on his hands, hoist the black flag, and begin slitting throats.
– H.L. Mencken
I’m going to engage in some mild “whatabout”ism regarding our (my?) reaction to the fire in Paris.