A close friend carelessly posted the following meme on facebook the other day. Big mistake. I hate memes! Well … I obviously could just let it go. What follows is a logical rant in rejoinder. Me: “I don’t really have a horse in this fight, and I recognize there’s often a lot of emotion on […]
Fascist Governments need a public threat (real or imagined) in order to pull of their totalitarian policies. Otherwise no one would tolerate it! Fear is the tool used to make otherwise good people capitulate to mass hysteria and groupthink. For the nazis it was the “Jew problem” – an imagined threat. No one saw a […]
by Sean Dempsey Inspired by a true story of dismal woe… Spoke an aged gardener,As he tapped his gentle knee:“By thy green thumb and patient eye,I pray thee, hark to me! A tale of love and loss I’ll tell,Of root and tender leaf,Of a plant I loved more true than man,And lost to mortal grief. […]
