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UPDATE below Friedrich Nietzsche once remarked (in German) “Power makes stupid.” Recent articles about the overly enthusiastic use of tasers by cops (the term ‘police officer’ overly dignifies these thugs) are a good confirmation of his observation. My example is not isolated. Here is another example. As usual the cops are exonerated. Big organizations look…

Courtesy of John Cole at Balloon Juice, who credits the original discovery to Andrew Sullivan, this is too good not to post, even though I’m so busy I can scarcely sit down. Sullivan writes: “Waterboarding was sometimes used in the Deep South to torture African-Americans and to extract false confessions to alleged crimes. And when…

https://www.peterkuper.com/stock_jpgs_j/images/dissent_j.jpg UPDATED 11/15, 11/29 I’ve been thinking about the following for some time. Not many links right now, but there likely will be. And as I do I will update and move this post forward. Historically governments generally lasted between 200 and 400 years before collapsing from a combination of incompetence, corruption, and inability to…

My favorite “hard science” blog, by physicist and science fiction writer David Brin, has the following questions anyone should ask conservatives who claim to love their country: “* WOULD YOUR HACKLES RAISE IF IT WERE DEMOCRATS WHO… “…insist that it is just fine for two companies, run by a pair of extreme partisan brothers, to…
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