News and opinion from around US-opolis for Thursday, June 30, 2011
In the 21st Century, intellect has debased itself to such a point that every action needs simplification to the nth degree, with people being willfully and patently unable to see more than one way of achieving an end.
News and opinion from around US-opolis for Wednesday, June 29, 2011
In yesterday's New York Times, Charles Blow, one of my favourite opinion writers, wrote a brilliant and poignantly evocative exhortation to politicians of all stripes not to forget the poor in all their shenanigans and manouevres.
Blow called upon his...
News and opinion from around US-opolis for Tuesday, June 28, 2011
News and opinion from around US-opolis for Monday, June 27, 2011
We are the United States of Shallow Americans. We obsess over the nuance in a phrase or a word and are distracted by the most inane things, thus allowing the sheisters and idealogues, whom we reckon good enough to...
So I understand Keith Olbermann, the multimillionaire media egotist and ex-sportscaster who deems himself eminently qualified to comment on political affairs, whose resurrected show Countdown is an echo chamber of one-sided thought with no room for debate and...
“I am the punishment of God...If you had not committed great sins, God would not have sent a punishment like me upon you.”
~Genghis Khan
Temuijin - Early Years and Rise to Fame
For about a 5 or 6 year period in...
News and opinion from around US-opolis for Friday, June 24, 2011
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