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Stalin and Mao, BFF
Stalin and Mao on currency, 1950: __________ I post the above currency image because I’ve been thinking about how images function to make the individual viewer feel like Dorothy before the Wizard of Oz (small and weak before The Great … Continue reading
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Tagged art, Communism, Mao, money, Nietzsche, philosophy, power, stalin
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A delicious deconstruction of John Gray by A.C. Grayling
Of John Gray’s Black Mass, A.C. Grayling writes that the book: tells us that the world is in a bad way and that there is nothing we can do about it. Perhaps we can infer from this that his aim … Continue reading
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Tagged a.c. grayling, atheism, Christianity, Hitler, John Gray, progress, reason, science, secular humanism, stalin, the myth of progress
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I.F. Stone, Kindle Mania, Joe the Plumber, Dollar Tattoo Art, and a French Poet Who Dreamed of Blogging: Today’s Five Curious Links
Commentary claims journalist I.F. Stone was a spy for Stalin from 1936-1938 . . . more The New York Times says big screen e-readers, such as the new larger version of the Kindle, might save the publishing industry, and transform the … Continue reading
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Tagged art, Christianity, Christianity Today, college, feminism, gay marriage, I.F. Stone, joe the plumber, kindle, newspapers, poetry, stalin
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Today’s Question: Where Did Waterboarding Come From?
I’ve been reading Jonathan Kirsch’s history of the the Inquisition, titled The Grand Inquisitor’s Manuel: A History of Terror in the Name of God (Harper-Collins 2008), and waterboarding is a gift to George Bush (and the Gestapo and Stalin’s Secret … Continue reading
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Tagged Catholic Church, Catholicism, George Bush, gestapo, Jesus, Jonathan Kirsch, rush limbaugh, stalin, terrorism, the Inquisition, torture, waterboarding
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Soviet Hammer & Sickle Shirts Being Sold at Amazon
Below is a disturbing shirt being sold at Amazon. I don’t oppose the shirt being sold, only disturbed that people are so ignorant of the history of the 20th century that they would think it “cool” to wear it. Or worse: they … Continue reading
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Tagged aleksandr solzhenitsyn, andrei sakvarov, Communism, fascism, gulag, ignorance, lenin, Soviet Union, stalin, stupidity, totalitarianism, vaclav havel
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Prometheus Unbound 