There is this site with a bunch of truisms, http://mfx.dasburo.com/art/truisms.html, that porksound posted ( Read more... )

These are some thoughts on slavery, sparked by a question from my ten-year-old daughter. I can’t easily back them up with objective facts, but I do believe they are correct based on the fragments I have heard over the years. Most recently via Neil Stephenson’s Baroque Cycle, I came to have a sense of slavery that had escaped me. We lied to our ( Read more... )

I'm confronted tonight by another case of the exploitation of the not-space of a truth being used by the right to confuse the uninformed. This case stems from an e-mail list that I belong to that is not politically oriented. I don't care to go into the specifics, but I find myself angry and frustrated because of the subtlety of the argument that ( Read more... )