What does democratic mean? Depends on who you ask but I’d say it’s fair that most people perceive the concept to mean “the people” are the government – whatever that means and regardless how obvious it is that that’s simply not the case. “The people” are “represented” by politicians in a congress or parliament who …
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Soldiers aren’t sent to War, they are the War.
When I was doing some work in Germany in 2016, I took the local train from the quaint little German village where I was living to the neighboring town where I was working. The train stop was outdoors right across from a large grass covered field with a couple rolling mounds peppered with yellow flowers. …
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Animal “Rights” Part Deux
The animal rights movement began taking shape right around the time when humanity began to master its environment and people’s lifespan lasted longer than ever before. With never-before-seen luxuries and an improvement lifespan, the homo sapiens suddenly had the time to ‘think’ and so they did. Although human abuse was seen as customary and vastly …
Net Zero (Chance of Survival)
How is politics not a religion? People who believe there is an existential climate crisis due to human being’s use of carbon based fuels are looking crazier and crazier every day, why isn’t anyone talking about the insanity? They have reached cult status worshiping yet another god for which there is no verifiable proof of …
Is Morality Objective?
Objectivity means the absence of subjectivity, a universal standard applied to everyone equally. Gravity is an objective physical law, jump up in the air and you will come falling back down to earth. In this context, can we say that morality is objective, is there a universal moral standard that can be identified and applied …
What’s Wrong with Public Education?
The problem with public education is that it has nothing to do with education, it’s politics. Public school systems are political institutions, administered, run and funded by bureaucrats for political expedience. Is there anyone who doesn’t understand the inherent inefficiencies, half-truths and political horse trading of politics? People you wouldn’t trust to babysit your kids …
Male-Female Wage Gap?
Depending on which ‘study’ you read, some believe that there is a systematic difference in the amount of money companies pay men and women for the same work and they claim the difference is due to sexism. Let’s distill the issue of emotion and consider it rationally, reasonably, logically and with some common sense. First …
When No Symptoms is a Symptom
In the same sense that I don’t deny the existence of a god, I just recognize there is no proof of one, I don’t deny there was a pandemic, I just don’t see any evidence of one. I think it’s fair to say that if people had been dropping dead in the streets, nobody would …
Politics is for the Infantile and the Insane
Remember when we were children in grade school, we were mean and selfish and loud and called each other names like ‘retarded’ and ‘stupid’. We talked over one another trying to drown out the other kids so we could get attention and the teacher would have to yell and bang something to get the class …
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Speed Limit Predators
The state’s justification for speed limits is always the same: “Speed Kills”. So let’s remove the appeals to emotion and other hysteria and sensationalism and examine that hypothesis with rational, logic and common sense. Let’s consider the extremes, if speed kills in and of itself then anyone who ever orbited the earth in a spacecraft …