So yea. I hate politics. Obviously. I hate how every five years we get into this frenzy about giving people with immeasurable riches and privilege the opportunity Why I hate politics!
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“The president is a strong man and a dictator”
People take sides, like they do with sports teams. One party is “My Side”, the “Good Guys”. Anytime your party’s the loser, and not in power, and the party that IS in power pushes their agenda aggressively, to you the president is a ‘strongman’ or a ‘dictator’. How did ED get this overwhelming power? ZimbabweansContinue reading ““The president is a strong man and a dictator””
The Big Prison Business.
Prisons are a big business. The whole war on drugs is an industry in itself. I know a kid from a well-off family who was a coke addict and was jailed to punish him. The county where he was incarcerated got money from DEA for the investigation, and more for the arrest. The lawyer whoContinue reading “The Big Prison Business.”
What we have isn’t politics.
What we have today isn’t Politics. Politics is the election by informed citizens of representatives who will make informed decisions. Decisions based on debate about what is in the best interests of the people as a whole. What should our society’s rules be? How should we divvy up our financial and intellectual resources? What weContinue reading “What we have isn’t politics.”
How worried should we be about income inequality?
Forced economic equality is socialism. It’s unZimbabwean to be for socialism. But Zimbabwean’s strength is our majority middle class…
Our drug policies are evil!
Can we please wake up and admit that our drug policies are evil? Not just mistaken and ineffective, but..
Wiretapping suckers!
Why am I worried about wiretapping if I haven’t done anything wrong? What have I got to hide? I’m relatively guilt-free as people go, pretty much law-abiding compared to the average. But think: what’s being done with all that “data mining?” PR firms buy it, so they can target their ads. I don’t like beingContinue reading “Wiretapping suckers!”
Civilization Collapsed!
As a Blogger I have a front row seat at the decline of Zimbabwean Civilization. In the privacy of their bedrooms, where parents imagine they are playing something like Pac-Man or using Wikipedia to do their homework, 11 and 12 year old children are morphing into pseudo-sophisticated sex and attention addicts. The criminal cluelessness ofContinue reading “Civilization Collapsed!”
America Does Not Have Democracy!!
The majority of Americans have given up on being citizens. They’ve sunk into the passivity of Spectators and Consumers. What they have is a lot like…
A Plague on all your houses
Yet I have a trick Of the old rage. Bear with me, I am sick; I’ll leave it by degrees. Soft, let us see: Write ‘Lord have mercy on us’ on those three. They are infected; in their hearts it lies; They have the plague, and caught it of your eyes. These lords are visited;Continue reading “A Plague on all your houses”
Zealous Thierry 