Can't do that - not the manly thing to do as George Carlin reminds us: Actually, when you think about it, this country has had a manhood problem for some time. You can tell the language we use; language always gives us away. What did we do wrong in Vietnam? We 'pulled...
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Word Order Matters
What people of good will seek for Israel and Palestine is not just a peace, but a just peace.
Clinton’s Legacy
It's bad enough that we are living with H. Clinton's foreign-policy legacy. What's worse is that many people are dying with it.
The Double Essentialism of Zionism
Zionism, the Jewish nationalist philosophy that underlies the state of Israel, entails two kinds of essentialism: Jewishness for Jews and anti-Semitism for gentiles. In other words, no matter how hard they try, Jews cannot stop being Jewish and gentiles cannot stop...
News Roundup 10/24/19
US News Video shows a California police officer shotting a 16-year-old in the back of the head as he ran away from the police officer. [Link] Secretary of Defense Mark Esper recuses himself from the review of the Pentagon's JEDI contract. Esper’s son works at IMB, who...
‘Who Gives a S— About Afghanistan?’
A tainted tale coming from a Mattisian hawk, but believable enough. This kind of disinterest is likely to be the closest thing we ever see to antiwar sentiment on the part of an American president in our lifetimes. What a world.
Revisiting – Outrage Mobs, What To Do When It’s You, and the YA Mess with Nancy Rommelmann
*Repromoting because I will be releasing a follow up episode* So if you've been a listener of mine for some time you've heard Nancy's story but if not now is a good time to listen (or refresh if you've heard this one before) because her story is kinda nuts and we sat...
Killing People is No Sin
If you're an employee of the exceptional U.S. government.
Cop Kills Boy
Waistband!
Economic Creationism
Creationism has lost the argument in the public square. Any biologist working to understand life-related phenomena has no choice but to take seriously Darwin’s theory of evolution by natural selection. That is, all of the apparent design and purposefulness that we...
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