Nietzschean polemics
Nietzsche’s ideas were iconoclastic, but he would never have advocated for an anti-semitic racial ideology like Nazism.
Monthly Archives: December 2018
“I play to people’s fantasies”
Yet the president nurses constant resentment that other countries take advantage of the United States.
Compulsory education, freedom for young adults
People, least of all young adults, do not like sudden change, especially change that affects their social circles, their emotional health, or their long term futures.
FBI and Peter Strzok
Yet the agency has acquitted itself poorly. It does not deserve our respect, nor does it merit loyalty from anyone who cares about governmental integrity.
Feds eat their own: Michael Flynn encounters FBI’s collegial side
FBI could stand for Forgotten Buffoons and Ingrates, if their behavior were not so mean, destructive, and out-of-control.
Elizabeth Warren and Democratic Socialism
Perhaps Trump wanted to build a tower in Moscow so he could escape New York’s building regulations. If you want a good deal, pay Vladimir Putin to grant you a charter to do business in Russia. You can be one of his oligarchs.
Cruelty and rule of law
If we expand our conception of what is possible, we may grasp how we reached this point in our history.
Welcome to our country
I don’t follow your reasoning. Do you say that because your family came to America first, they deserve better treatment than families who come to America now?
Law enforcement when law does not exist
The greatest threat to our security does not come from abroad. It comes from people who wear badges, who display the name of their agency on the backs of their jackets. It comes from greedy, predatory officials who run a protection racket no one dares resist.
Pater Bush passes
What do you see in place of something real? “He loved life, and he wanted to experience all of it.”
The Jeffersonian 