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he who casts the first stone

Its like turning back the pages to communist Russia with Orwellian overtones. Legally, the state is supposed to indemnify victims and their families of terror attacks. However, what is classified as a terror incidents is decided arbitrarily in the way … Continue reading

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valor and horrors

This hardly a chicken soup story. Sometimes you come across things that confirms that bone in the throat sensation when we doubt the platitudes and rhetoric that the West values the sanctity of human life. Its a Fabian nightmare where … Continue reading

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modern forms to human pain

His drawings, the line drawings appear so simple. Deceptively so. But at the same time, if one tries to copy them it becomes apparent they are so powerful; surprising that single unbroken lines can create so much. The sheer energy, … Continue reading

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discarding the forced, formal and faked

Orgasms of nihilism. A typically contrarian view, and one that labels Picasso as a minor artist. Essentially, an attack on the formalism intrinsic to modernism which entails a crowding out, indeed suffocation of the spiritual content. Cubism, was after all, … Continue reading

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wild safari park

and so it is. A human game park. How many “things” , animals, are the hunters allowed to bag. The famous line of “cockroaches in a bottle” has now gone green and ecological. PC Green occupation.The bugs have to be … Continue reading

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safe harbor for captain broke

Mitt Romney under siege for not having the common touch. For not paying sufficient taxes. For not appearing to have any interest in the poor and their sort. There is a tug of war between what economist Schumpeter termed the … Continue reading

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the state of the better

Property, according to Oscar Wilde has such dreary duties that it constitutes and endless bore. It is unbearable and prevents the full flowering of individualism. Property then, in the interest of the rich said Wilde, must be gotten rid of. … Continue reading

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