Schadenfreude is one of my favorite words. It’s a noun that means, pleasure derived from someone else’s misfortune. Does this make me a bad person? Perhaps. But the video is…
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Awful Truth #8: Cultural appropriation is not a crime, nor is it worth a single whine. “The contrived taboo of so-called cultural appropriation means we can safely write only autobiography.”…
“You cannot find peace by avoiding life.” —Mary Oliver “Human life begins on the far side of despair.” —Jean-Paul Sartre A poem or haiku gets to the essence of life…
Should we forcibly eliminate wasteful spending? “It is obvious that two elements are essential to material progress—saving and applying the savings to some useful enterprise.” William Bonner and Addison…
“Reporters are faced with the daily choice of painstakingly researching stories or writing whatever people tell them. Both approaches pay the same.” Scott Adams “Thanks to the Information Age…
Awful Truth#7: Elections require absolute integrity if democracy is to survive. “Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want, and deserve to get it good and…
The censors among us are fanatical in ways that a reasonably well-adjusted person would consider a colossal waste of calories. When a person says or writes something the censors…
Awful Truth #6: There are only two genders (sex = gender). “The further a society drifts from the truth, the more it will hate those that speak it.” Selwyn…
“One’s destiny lies not in the past nor the future…” Chang-Rae Lee, On Such a Full Sea Alexander the Great had his destiny, and the world remembers it thousands…
Awful Truth #5: We are all racists. What matters is how we behave despite our inherent human faults. (These thoughts were put to paper in an unpublished work called The…