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…
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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 (These thoughts were put to paper in an unpublished work called The…
“It is a good rule in life never to apologize. The right sort of people do not want apologies, and the wrong sort take a mean advantage of them.” …
Entry 344-01: This document (scanned copy below) was found during an archeological excavation of ruins in Sector 44-A-2 at dig site 013. The depth of the excavation corresponds to an…
How I saw the world without leaving home. Before I retired, I was asked on many occasions why I didn’t travel as much as other people in my social circle. …
Awful Truth #4: The only land a people are entitled to is that which they can take and then hold. “The past is a foreign country: they do things differently…
“One thing a person cannot do, no matter how rigorous his analysis or heroic his imagination, is to draw up a list of things that would never occur to him.”…
Awful Truth #3: We can greatly reduce healthcare costs in the United States if we choose to do so. The current healthcare system in the United States leaves people justifiably…