T.A.S.S is of course the Russian State Newspaper and neither it nor its kin Pravda (ironically The Truth) had much of a reputation for useful or accurate journalism
Government aid for newspapers doesn’t fit the American ideas of a free press or capitalism very well. I really don’t think that there won’t be strings attached […]
I quite enjoyed Mr. Jenkins article but I think he is a bit off on the constituency of the American political system today.
Today’s Republican party is not like the party of 1980. There doesn’t seem to be a new Reagan or any kind of leader that can appeal to the broad base of under […]
Somehow I think its a lot more likely to the fact that people can’t afford an education.
However as I mentioned on the original boingboing article games like WOW and its predecessor EQ can be very addictive for some people.
I’ve seen many a life wrecked by them. MMO’s bore me so I am […]
To borrow a line from Beetlejuice “You Know I hate ‘em”. In addition to being a skeevy way around the Do Not Call list they don’t create any jobs.
As I see it if some idiot is going to call me on the phone and try to sell me something I’d rather it be a human […]
We seem to have trillions of dollars to waste on banker parasites but can’t seem to come up anything to help our domestic auto industry.
Simply put there aren’t enough blue collar people in office today. The elitists that make up the legislative and executive branch haven’t enough knowledge or experience to tell the […]
I don’t indulge much in art criticism or worry about tattoos (or piercing for that matter) as Kunstler does here. James Kunslter may think badly of tattooing longing spewing his for patriarchy over his excellent and rudely named blog
but folks while well this is a well turned phrase but […]
What is it with Governments and Dystopias. Most sane people take these as cautionary tales and things to be avoided.
Governments on the other hand seem to take the worst of the worst, 1984, Brave New World and the like as a “master plan” or a “good idea”
Given a few more years of Republican misrule […]
Good Mens Rights Advocates (M.R.A.’s) like Glenn Sacks are pretty much identical to good feminists in that they both want fairness and equal rights for both genders. They may disagree on some core facts and issues but at the bottom of it all they want the same things, just from a different […]
“Timid men prefer the calm of despotism to the tempestuous sea of liberty.” -
Thomas Jefferson.
This bit of wisdom is why free countries often fail to withstand the encroach of internal tyranny and why such abominations as a person being arrested for a bunch of fictional drawings or being charged with a felony for […]
More from Lew Rockwell today.
Good article and I couldn’t have put it better than the opening phrase
The recently concluded Republican National Convention in St. Paul served as the grand coming-out party for the Homeland Security State.
Folks for the record, it isn’t just happening during hotly contested conventions in St Paul. As Time magazine points […]