All our futures are carved by a history we did not live, and cannot share. There are some among us who are never able to recover from the trauma of childhood. Murder, death, illness, and sexual molestation, are all dark stars in the sky that look down upon us, and judge us for being unable to comprehend the constellation of their human conclusions.
Continue reading → The Sex Offender Registry: The Future Always Disappoints History
Compassion — or the lack of it — has been a recurring theme on this blog recently, perhaps understandably as we do not shy away from topics that raise questions about the behaviour of society and in particular those who govern us. The absence of compassion is evident worldwide — it is not confined to one country or one group of people — it is universal.
Continue reading → Is Compassion a Melting Virtue in a Modern World?
We know eating processed flesh is terrible for our bodies. We are self-poisoning ourselves by our relentless, and purposeful — injection-by-swallowing — of impure foodstuffs like hot dogs and bacon and other processed “meat.”
We know how to kill a man — but what is the best way to kill a chicken? Break its neck? A shot to the back of the head? A sharp knife to the throat? Electric shock? Gassing?
Continue reading → Renaming the Slaughterhouse: How to Kill a Chicken
Season Two of the outstanding television series– “The Colony” — debuted on The Discovery Channel this week, and while this year’s “survivors” are dumber and weaker than those on Season One, the stakes are evermore higher in the Age of Urban Bioterrorism.
Continue reading → The Colony, Season Two: Killing to Survive the Pandemic
Yesterday, Nebraska passed two curious abortion laws. The first bans abortions after 20 weeks because fetuses “feel pain” and the other requires a woman have “mental health” screening before she can abort. Both laws were construed to prevent Nebraska from becoming the next Kansas and to press forward the Right to Life Crusade back into the Supreme Court to overturn Rove v. Wade.
There is something crass and congenitally wrong with continuing to produce live performances at Ford’s Theatre in Washington, D.C. President Lincoln was shot in the back of the head there by John Wilkes Booth in 1865. Why do Americans totemize the gory deaths of our leaders? The limousine President Kennedy was assassinated in is on display at the Henry Ford Museum in Dearborn, Michigan.
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