State-sponsored gladiator fights for a hand-picked audience of the absurdly wealthy, the inexplicably powerful and some soldiers who met the aesthetic requirements; remotely viewable by anyone who paid a fee to the President’s friend. That was … a thing that…
Bad About Religion: 180 Down, 31 To Go
You may have heard that last week the Department of Defense dropped 180 religions from its “faith codes” list, reducing that list from 211 to 31 recognized religions. This has been widely regarded as a bad thing. Mainly because it…
America: It’s Authoritarians All The Way Down
The Democrats really are no less authoritarian than the Republicans. They just get authoritarian in different ways and about different things. The Republicans tend to be authoritarian about flashy (and fashy) things, that result in armored stormtroppers stomping around in…
Oh, Delaware: It Was A Joke, Not A Challenge
In one of the early posts on this blog, I made a joke about Citizen’s United meaning that corporations would get the vote one day. It was a joke. I said: corporations can now hold religious and political views, have…