Atrocitas Sui Generis The company that employed me strived only to serve up the cheapest fare that its customers would tolerate, churn it out as fast as possible, and charge as much as they could get away with. If it were possible to do so, the company would sell what all businesses of its kind [...]
The surest defense against terrorism is to refuse to be terrorized. Our job is to recognize that terrorism is just one of the risks we face, and not a particularly common one at that. And our job is to fight those politicians who use fear as an excuse to take away our liberties and promote [...]
There is no argument that Sigmund Freud was an odd duck.* * See also: quack Dominic Streatfeild writes of Freud’s passion for medicine in Cocaine: An Unauthorized Biography – the father of psychoanalysis was a driving force behind the introduction of cocaine as local anesthesia (for treatment of “nasal reflex neurosis”) and an antidepressant in [...]
I’ve been keeping the dispatch scanner playing quite a bit lately – for the most part, public servants go about their work with expert aplomb (and it adds to an understanding of the causal relationships oft-hidden in the city to associate a patrol car prowling by or the klaxon sirens with actual events) … but [...]
Pop another speed pill and go forth my most righteous angel of death! Anger is a natural reaction in this situation. Unfortunately, many become so disgusted that they throw the baby out with the bathwater. Feeling vulnerable, they may think, “Fool me once, shame on you. Fool me twice, shame on me.” The idea of [...]
The inverse of the equation generally holds truths less-evident though rightly asserted: If you’re not uncomfortable in your work as a leader, it’s almost certain you’re not reaching your potential as a leader. – Thanks for leading by Seth Godin[Excerpt from Tribes] So cast your qualms aside and pillage your underlings for all they’re worth [...]
The government of our democracy consists of self-serving elitists who strive to portray themselves as public servants. For them no distortion is too extreme to declare fact, no act of violence is too reprehensible to order; these are men who will sacrifice others for the sake of their personal gain, bleed the coffers of the [...]
Smoke:MeetOutsideKillEveryone – Grand Boohbah XVI First I distract myself by intentionally thinking about something else. Secondly, and here comes the irony, my mind starts an unconscious monitoring process to check if I’m still thinking about the thing I’m not supposed to be thinking about – you know, to check if the conscious process is working [...]
The prior post regarding the Veblen effect in the economy of ideas needed an example – and this seems like a great one. Here is a religion (in the loosest sense of the term) which is so patently wrong as to be … well… fashionable. Scientology: Religion as Veblen good.
Even if you’re only getting 10-20 visitors per day, you should still be getting a comment every now and again. I’ve seen blogs with only 100 subscribers average 5-10 comments on every post. If you’re not getting any communication from your readers at all, then you’ve probably picked a topic that no one cares about [...]
