Category Archives: evil

The Evil of Slavery

August 13, 2017 – 10:35 am

Robert E. Lee, commander of the Confederate Army, has been widely cited for stating that the Civil War was not about slavery. Modern supporters of the South add to this quote that not every southerner owned slaves and claim the defense of Dixie was to protect State’s Rights. Unapologetic slavery advocates say that African and […]

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One Bag Theory

July 19, 2017 – 3:53 am

Back in 1974 my good friend AK and I traveled cross-country to Encinitas, a small beach town slightly north of San Diego. We crashed at his friend’s bungalow and spent our days sunning and bodysurfing at Moonlight Beach and our nights smoking pot and drinking wine. We made friends with a hippie guitar guru wandering […]

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The Ferocity of the Fat Front

June 20, 2017 – 6:23 pm

Obesity is a human dietary condition, in which over-eating threatens a human with heart disease, type 2 diabetes, the failure to breathe, cancer, and osteoarthritis according to Wikipedia. Obesity is determined by Body Mass Index or BMI = kilograms in weight divided by your height in meters squared. 18.5 is considered underweight 18.5–24.9 is normal […]

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Planche d’eau a la Khmer Rouge

June 11, 2017 – 6:41 pm

This image comes from drawing at Phnom Penh’s Tuol Sleng Genocide Museum. Actually waterboarding dates back to the Spanish Inquisition. It’s a tradition that never loses its place for governments in need of secrets. For a related article click on this URL https://www.mangozeen.com/2008/07/30/america/dick-cheneys-plans-to-torture-dav.htm

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Traitor # 45

June 9, 2017 – 5:17 pm

In Edward Everett Hale’s “The Man Without a Country” a a young United States Army lieutenant, Philip Nolan, befriend by Aaron Burr, Alexander Hamilton’s killer, who attempted to establish a republic on the Mississippi far from Washington. At Philip Nolan’s trial he declared to the judge, “I wish I may never hear of the United […]

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