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Oklahoma Prisons Break(down)

I live in Oklahoma, and my son works in one of the numerous prison facilities in this state. It’s not that I have an interest, so much as I know intricately the details of this idiocy. What we have here … Continue reading

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Just What We Need, a Regional Oil Spill

It’s not as if there is something inherently evil about off-shore drilling for oil. What is evil is the choice to underplay the risks for the sake of profit. It’s cheaper to lie, and pay others to lie, about what … Continue reading

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Greece and More: What to Expect

Vox Day has it covered well. Without dragging in the mysterious Illuminati, he explains the real conspiracy in terms of function, not labels. There exists a known coterie of wealth and power in the world who don’t love Jesus and … Continue reading

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Selected Failures of Western Civilization

Efficiency does not scale. Just because you can detect refinements does not mean they will work. No living human, nor group of them, can effectively account for even a minimum of complex factors when attempting to apply efficiency measures above … Continue reading

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Customer Is Not Always Right

The other half of my complaint — too much of Open Source is so developer centric it can quickly become anti-user — is sometimes the user wants the wrong thing. But it’s not so easy to untangle this mess, since … Continue reading

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Fascist Modern Medicine

Let’s understand first what “fascism” means. Fascism … is a radical and authoritarian nationalist political ideology. Fascists seek to organize a nation on corporatist perspectives, values, and systems such as the political system and the economy. (from Wikipedia) Looking it … Continue reading

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Implications of the Decalogue: Ten

You shall not covet your neighbor’s property. You shall not covet your neighbor’s wife, nor his manservant, nor his maidservant, nor his ox, nor his ass, nor anything that is your neighbor’s. The Hebrew word “covet” carried more weight than … Continue reading

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Deception by Any Other Name

Hiding the truth is evil. God said so; I’m just trying to bring everyone up to date on that. Fundamentally, deception is aimed at getting someone to act according to false information. It’s manipulation, interfering in the process of decision … Continue reading

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Consider Snail Mail

Many of us have found friends on the Net. Virtual friendship is not stupid or harmful, provided it’s genuine friendship. The nice thing about the Net is it helps us find likely friends due to the grouping of interests, not … Continue reading

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What We Can Know versus What We Can Do

“Well, the solution is obvious.” No, it’s not. Just because we can see harm, we should not assume we know the actual cause. Much less should we assume we know how to fix it. We see poverty as people unable … Continue reading

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