Category Archives: sanity

Newspeak Continues

Posted on June 23, 2011 by ehurst

Caution: Adult topic, not for the squeamish. Orwell’s Newspeak was just the beginning. It’s not enough to control the language itself, but TPTB want to invade your very mind, and change your wiring. Granted, the freedom to speak the truth … Continue reading →

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I’d Rather Be All Wrong

Posted on June 20, 2011 by ehurst

Personally, I give it three months or less. Israel has begun poking around on the southern border of Lebanon again. They’d like to find an excuse to poke Syria from the Golan Heights, but it’s not quite there yet. I … Continue reading →

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Forced Tribute Is Slavery

Posted on June 19, 2011 by ehurst

And voluntary tribute is love. If I wait for a certain holiday or cultural celebration, then my enthusiasm is suspect. There are certain things which simply follow the rhythm of the seasons, and those are more natural. However, when a … Continue reading →

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Ball of Fire

Posted on June 18, 2011 by ehurst

Tom Ball’s suicide is being analyzed in a hundred ways. I’m not going to join the herd. Even after reading his long and disjointed letter, I’m not sure I understand why he chose that end. What bothers me most is … Continue reading →

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Random Observations on Current Events

Posted on June 16, 2011 by ehurst

Too many things which are too big to ignore, but none worthy of a full article, so I’m offering a list of my opinionated rantings. They say the situation with that nuclear generator on the Missouri River in Nebraska is … Continue reading →

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Spiritual Economics

Posted on June 10, 2011 by ehurst

What price a sane life? You can be sure the current massive debt burden taken on by students seeking degrees is not justified in most cases. The price is excessive and the education is a joke. Most degrees these days … Continue reading →

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Americans Going Down Without a Fight

Posted on June 8, 2011 by ehurst

Government is not the only lying propaganda machine. Anthony Weiner? Says he’s Jewish, so there’s no excuse for mispronouncing his last name. Properly it’s “wine-er” so he only has himself to blame for making it sound like “wee-ner” — which … Continue reading →

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Sitting Pretty? Don’t Bet On It

Posted on June 1, 2011 by ehurst

No one is safe from the growing police state. I know someone who has managed to draw the ire of the rich and politically connected. He’s a lawyer who has defended folks no one else would touch. Often enough, those … Continue reading →

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Dire Expectations 2: The Silence

Posted on May 31, 2011 by ehurst

Part two is not so obvious. This is an intuition, something I can’t directly reason out, but which bubbles up from someplace in the subconscious. It’s a broad pattern I see. On the one hand, we have some interesting revelations … Continue reading →

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Defying Demons

Posted on May 28, 2011 by ehurst

I’ve been asked to explain something in light of the previous blog post. Our common Western cultural image of demons and the Devil are laughably inaccurate. I spend a couple of posts debunking and correcting some of the false ideas … Continue reading →

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