Daniel W.

The first lines of the Spectator article –

“The whole aim of practical politics,’ wrote H.L. Mencken, ‘is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.”

Apply so many places.  Not just articles about apocalyptic views regarding purported carc…[Read more]

On the horrors of religion – I wonder if it’s all a manifestation of tribalism, and such an ingrained part of the psyche of Homo sapiens that it will never be fully expunged.

Current social media – Facebook, Twitter, and others – foster like minds to unite, whereas they may have been more isolated in the past.  It seems to me that much of the…[Read more]

Some thoughtful reads there.  Intetesting contrarian view on renewables.

I recall reading that recycling of most materials is futile – most plastics for instance, may require more fuel to recycle, than making them from oil products.  Ditto for glass.  Plus, alot of what is sorted and saved, cant be used.

Lots more to read there!  Thanks!

Thanks Reg for a nice list of readings.

With the RCC pretty much confirmed as a massive cult of power, hypocrisy, and sexualy depravity, ditto for conservative polititians, electorate who dont care, evangelicals and nonchristian Abrahamists just as bad…  Hindu awefulness and Buddhists proving they are no better… does humanity deserve its…[Read more]

@Strega, thank you.  You made be blush.

@RegTheFronkeyFarmer, Thanks Reg for the explanation.  I also agree with Ghandi, but again, I think civilization would be a good idea everywhere.  The brutality of Eastern cultures does not let them off the hook.  And subjugated, obliterated societies in the Americas (Inca, Aztec) were as brutal as the…[Read more]

@Reg, While I’m certainly no expert, I’ve been married for 21 years to someone who grew up during the cultural revolution  in China.  I’ve been there many times, and I’ve read a number of history books about China and Chinese society.   I can say with some confidence, that people in China do have a moral code, but it’s not necessarily the same as…[Read more]

It’s not homeopathic, but this is my favorite M &W video.  An old standard, I imagine.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l8-8WJxA-cI

I suppose Christians have to trust their god.  Otherwise he will treat them like he did Job, killing their children and goats, and covering them with boils.  Trust god or else!

That’s funny about wearing the crucifix.  I’m glad the Romans didn’t execute by lethal injection.  Otherwise people would be wearing hypodermic needles.

I always preface this with “back when the mastodons were filling the prairie skies with the bellowing of their melancholy songs” – but a long time ago, I enlisted in the Army, in part because I believed that each citizen had a right and responsibility to keep Americans safe from foreign threats, and to keep others safe, who were too small or…[Read more]