In Federalist Paper #30, Alexander Hamilton argues that the new American government must possess unrestrained power to impose taxes to support all the basic functions of that government – particularly the power to raise and supply an army or militia. He mentions building fleets and paying debts, but most of his examples deal with the […]
Voltaire: “Those who can make you believe absurdities can make you commit atrocities.” John Stuart Mill: “I did not mean that Conservatives are generally stupid; I meant, that stupid persons are generally conservative.” H.L. Mencken: “Nobody ever went broke underestimating the intelligence of the American public.” The fact that a thoroughly corrupt and incompetent cretin […]
H.L. Mencken wrote, “The notion that a radical is one who hates his country is naïve and usually idiotic. He is, more likely, one who likes his country more than the rest of us and is thus more disturbed than the rest of us when he sees it debauched. He is not a bad citizen […]
Scholars have recently presented critical analyses of the popularity of zombies, vampires and witches to help explain the social and psychological implications of the undead in contemporary popular culture. Zombies are quick and easy metaphors that can be used for many purposes, representing any number of different themes. The proliferation of zombies in films, video […]
Historians have argued that New Journalism “degenerated” into Yellow Journalism because the lofty, idealistic goals of New Journalism were quickly subsumed into sensationalistic pabulum as newspapers tried to out-do each other for advertising revenue. With so much competition between the newspapers, stories were over-dramatized and altered to correspond to ideas that publishers and editors thought […]
One of the milestones in cinematic history was the first narrative film, The Great Train Robbery (1903). It was directed and shot by Edwin S. Porter, a former associate of Thomas Edison. The movie is only about 10 minutes long, with 14 scenes. It was the most popular and commercially successful film of the pre-nickelodeon […]
Whatever the outcome of the made-for-TV “feud” between President Donald Trump and Dr. Evil Elon Musk, the fact is that Trump didn’t “fire” Musk. Musk and his evil DOGE minions spent the last 5 months auditing all of the federal governments computer infrastructure, running AI surveillance scans on all the data. They were looking for […]
Donald Trump believes only HE can solve America’s many problems. At least he believes in something, right? Come to think of it, Adolf Hitler believed in something, too. Quite fervently, if memory serves. It was something really fucking awful, but he sure as hell believed in it. So did enough other people… But this is […]
The USA was one of the world’s greatest mass social experiments; the only country to come into existence as a fully-fledged democracy, “By the People, for the People.” America was the land of the free, home of the brave; a beacon of hope for the rest of the world, blah, blah, blah… Sadly, America isn’t […]
PLEASE BE THEREWHEN I OPEN UP MY EYESI STILL SEE YOU IN MY MINDLIKE A GHOST IN EVERY ROOMI CAN CLOSE MY EYES AND TRYAND COUNT TO TEN ORI WILL KEEP THEM SHUT FOREVERIF I CAN JUST SEE YOU AGAIN I TOLD MYSELF A LIE TODAY:I AM DEFINITELY NOT OKAYIF I SHUT MY EYESAND WISH […]
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