Category Archives: Politics and Society

Revolution

“This meeting can do nothing more to save the country!” — Samuel Adams; December 16, 1773 I said, nearly two years ago, that the United States of America as founded between 1775 and 1789 died on November 4, 2008. The … Continue reading

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FAIL

Has no-one in New Jersey ever heard of this marvelous new invention?? Amazing stuff really, NaCl. When you throw it on snow and ice said snow and ice miraculously melts away. Particularly under the warming rays of a clear winter … Continue reading

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Moist

This country is f**ked up. You can be tagged for DUI if you catch a glimpse of a beer in your peripheral vision but all the bars are built on major highways. In a just society, we’d understand that if … Continue reading

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Humanity

All intelligent individuals know that people are scum. It is, however, helpful to see examples of scumbaggery to confirm us in our preconceived notions. To wit: I was stuck in interminable Jersey traffic. At a point where I was forced … Continue reading

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S(tf)U

I admit that I never saw any of Barack Obama’s speechifying until the Inaugural Address. As that speech was disturbingly flat and full of empty rhetoric I still waited to find out how this supremely unqualified man managed to pull … Continue reading

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