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Author Archives: sidd
No Way Out
Camp America is such an innocent name.
Posted in Government, International, Law, Security, Society, War And Peace Tagged crime, law, sin, tyranny, war Leave a comment
Market Economics
Slavery never went away. It just evolved into more efficient slavery: wage servitude. Men As Beasts of Burden
Posted in Business, energy, Government, health and wellness, International, Politics, Society Tagged compassion, economy, gilded age, money, monopoly, poverty, tyranny Leave a comment
Buddha College
“Apart from Buddhism, the college also teaches courses like Buddhist music, sculpture, foreign languages, kung fu and tea-making.” Giant Buddha College
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Coming to a Neighborhood Near You
Now it’s ‘Rent-A-Fireman.’ Next : ‘Rent-A-Cop.’ ‘Rent-A-Judge.’ ‘Rent-A-Congressman.’ ‘Rent-A-Senator’ Who am i kidding. That’s here already. Welcome to the Company Town. “firefighters watched as an Obion County, Tennessee, home burned to the ground.”
Posted in Education, Government, Law, Society Tagged compassion, economy, irony, law, money, monopoly, public good, risks Leave a comment
Hamburgers and Superbugs
Superinfections. Get ready for them. “evolution of life-threatening bacteria that render our current antibiotics useless” “The problem is that the animal agriculture industry makes massive use of low-dose antibiotics for growth promotion and in place of effective infection prevention methods” ya. When you coop up animals all day and make ‘em stand in their own [...]
Posted in Agriculture, environment, health and wellness, Medicine, science Tagged avarice, compassion, crime, environment, risks Leave a comment
You Can’t Make This Up
Navy Bombs Guam with Dead, Frozen, Drug-Stuffed Mice. Apparently, in the 1980s, they brought in snakes. “the creatures arrived on the island accidentally in military cargo. ” “The mildly venomous snakes can grow up to 10 feet long” “The discovery that snakes will die when they eat acetaminophen was a huge step forward,” “scientists drop [...]
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Moving North
The world is moving northward. Even the trees. Sessile Migration
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Forebodings of Doom
How much is a 1%/year decline ? Enough that if i had a hundred of anything, i would have fifty in seventy years. What are these anythings ? Phytoplankton in the ocean, who produce half the oxygen we breathe are declining at 1% a year. They die because the oceans change in a warming world. [...]
Posted in Business, energy, environment, International, science, Society Tagged climate change, drinking water, earth, energy, environment, global warming, science Leave a comment
Back To School
You can’t make this up: Apparently the governor of New Jersey wants Rutgers University to be the only place in NJ for legal dope. Higher Learning
Posted in Agriculture, Education, Government, health and wellness, Law, Medicine, Society Tagged compassion, monopoly, pain, taboo Leave a comment
Jail is for the Little People