Just Don’t Call It Fascism
I’ve been assembling material for an essay about the promiscuous use of the word “fascism” for some time. Though my …
Monthly Archives: August 2006
Science Friday: Fatherhood and Authority
Breaking science news! According to a CNN interview astrologers are having nothing to do with the demotion of Pluto to …
Terrorist Dreams
Now that I have your attention, here’s an interesting post by computer security maven Bruce Schneier. The point of terrorism …
Immigrants Are Gonna Get Your Mama!
The fine German, Scots-Irish, Irish American, Pat Buchanan, is just filled with lovely thoughts these days. * “This [immigration] is …
Cluster Bombs
Some real sick puppies invented these, and sicker ones used them. Human Rights Watch has more photos. StopClusterMunitions has a …
Science Friday: Whale Story
From time to time it is good to talk about the evolution of a species instead of devolution into warring, …
Block Island Times Scoops the Plague
In one of my many “careers” I was the lead seaman on the Block Island ferry, a shallow drafted car …
Evolution Throws Us A Conundrum
If evolution, as so thoroughly described by Charles Darwin, is true, how do we explain Ann Coulter? In Darwin’s theory …
New Progressives
As I have said before I believe that new technology (the internet) has created new circumstances in the political landscape. …
Fundamentalism: Escaping
In the second in a series about authoritarianism at Orcinus, Sara Robinson reveals something rather astounding. For the past five …
Authoritarians In the Family
I am always left uneasy by those who point at the president, or his boss Mr. Cheney, or any particular …
Hamburg 1943
In July of 1943 British bombers conducted massive bombing raids, day and night, on the city of Hamburg. Those who …