A lawyer I was working for once described the doctrine of estoppel as “Seriously, now, who are you trying to kid?”
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A lawyer I was working for once described the doctrine of estoppel as “Seriously, now, who are you trying to kid?”
You probably recall the NSA’s lie about that they were only monitoring citizen’s “metadata” during their illegal data-collection program.
I’m referring, of course, to the US president.
Just a reminder: messing with another country’s civilian power grid is a crime against humanity.
When I was in high school, I was one of the founders of the “Military History Club” – which meant: “the nerdy guys who play Diplomacy and Jutland and Dungeons & Dragons all day. We had a small room in the attic of the school where we could leave our game-boards down and nobody would mess with them.
The Failing New York Times has just done another big reveal on Loser Trump’s taxes.
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
At what point are we shifting from political commentary to laughing at someone with a debilitating mental illness?
One of the basic skills of philosophy is to try to combat your own cognitive biases by flipping situations around, i.e.: “putting yourself in the other guys’ shoes” or whatever you want to call it. It’s a skill Americans don’t seem to learn in school, which is why (I believe) we have a population that is ripe for turning into imperialists and believers in various forms of exceptionalism.