The Declaration of Independence, created by Thomas Jefferson, is a classic argumentative work. Jefferson makes his point clearly and convincingly, but his argument is more tightly structured and does not utilize the variety of different rhetorical approaches that Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr uses in ‘Letter from Birmingham Jail’. In that classic work, Dr. King […]
“There is a cult of ignorance in the United States, and there has always been. The strain of anti-intellectualism has been a constant thread winding its way through our political and cultural life, nurtured by the false notion that democracy means that my ignorance is just as good as your knowledge.”-Isaac Asimov Over the decades, […]
Yes. The Saudi GP is the worst race on the F1 calendar for many reasons, the first and most obvious one being that the race takes place in one of the most repressive regimes on Earth. Saudi Arabia is a dictatorial Theocracy ruled by a vile despot, Mohammad bin-Salman. F1 should be boycotting the race […]
In the absence of any actual policies, the GOP has chosen instead to promote every unqualified, brain-damaged wannabe fascist they can find to public office. Former NFL star, wife-beater and serial philanderer Herschel Walker is a perfect example of this strategy, but he is certainly not the only one. The Republican nominee for the US […]
Who Am I? I am Tomasso Masaccio! The man who kick-started the Renaissance! People always say to me, “Hey, Masaccio – great name!” I say, “Molte grazie, I am Masaccio!” Then they ask me, “So, Masaccio…what exactly IS the ‘Renaissance?’” And I say to them, “MASACCIO IS THE RENAISSANCE!” I say this because I was […]
Hey, hi. I’m an intergalactic space traveler and I just have a few things I’d like to say to the people of Earth. First of all, I want you to know that there are millions of people just like me out there zooming around the universe in all sorts of spacecraft. It’s relatively easy once […]
Last week Washington, DC was all in a tizzy after Congressman Madison Cawthorn [R-NC] admitted during an interview on the Warrior Poet Society YouTube channel that he had recently been invited to an “orgy” attended by high-ranking members of his own party. Questions remain as to the identities of some of the attendees at this […]
The Pretenders are still one of my all-time favorite bands. Back when I was a healthy, idealistic young man, I was fortunate enough to see The Pretenders live, twice. Both of those times it was with the original lineup with Pete Farndon and James Honeyman-Scott – before Pete got kicked out of the band and […]
And Rene Descartes was a drunken fart:”I drink, therefore I am”-Monty Python, The Philosophers Song In his famous treatise Meditation six, Rene Descartes struggles to come to grips with the material world and how we perceive it. He explores the causal relationship between mind and body. Descartes manages to convince himself that he does indeed […]
The desire to control the minds of the masses has long been a driving force behind the American educational system. From the very outset, compulsory schooling was used as a means of social engineering. Gilded-Age Robber Barons like JP Morgan, John D. Rockefeller and Andrew Carnegie had a real need for this kind of [non-]education […]
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