A Critical Look at Ayn Rand
“She was neither fully a philosopher, nor fully a novelist, but something in between the two—the characters in her novels are not creatures of flesh and blood but opinions on legs, and her expository prose has the quality of speechifying.” – Ayn Rand: engineer of souls “Maybe one reason why free-marketeers idolise Ayn Rand is [...]
PDF Let Us Burn The Koran And…
I posted the video below in response to Pastor Terry Jones who threatened to burn copies of the Koran on September 11, 2010. Much to my surprise, the video received over 5,000 views. The subsequent videos were made to explain the meaning of the video (several viewers asked me to discuss the meaning of the [...]
The Psychology of Security
“Security is both a feeling and a reality. And they’re not the same.” “The reality of security is mathematical, based on the probability of different risks and the effectiveness of different countermeasures. We can calculate how secure your home is from burglary, based on such factors as the crime rate in the neighborhood you live [...]
Your Middle Class Existence Has Now Come To An End. Hopefully You Enjoyed It While It Lasted.
Our popular conception of history is often at odds with the reality of history. For example, we often think that history is comprised of periods of peace punctuated by war. That is why we are often “surprised” when war breaks out in some part of the world. The reality, though, is that history is war [...]
News From The Not Too Distant Future
Mega Merger! Google & Verizon Become Googizon Being hailed as the most significant corporate merger of the century, Google, Inc. and Verizon, Inc. have merged and will now be called Googizon. According to Googizon spokesperson Ishiro Honda, Googizon will be able to provide all of the top web and technology offerings for a fixed monthly [...]
There Is No Time
Arianna Huffington. The progressive movement needs you badly. They need you now. Your website gets an enormous amount of traffic. Please dedicate your entire website to your new book Third World America.1 Please get other progressive voices on the website. We need Ed Schultz. We need Tom Hartmann. And if we have to beat him [...]
God Bless The Republicans!
Whatever your thoughts may be concerning the ground zero “mosque,” what should be of greater concern is that the Republicans have, once again, found an issue that foments this new family value of “being angry at each other.”
Yiddish: Still Alive and Well
“Interface between Yiddish and English was my second line of argument. The influx of Yiddish into London and New York at the end of the nineteenth and start of the twentieth centuries, initially so alarming to protectionists like Henry James and Henry Adams, was soon welcomed by stylists like H.L. Mencken. How much poorer English [...]
Our Economic Crisis
A brilliant analysis of our current economic crisis. The information below is so good that I had to add it after this post went live. • 61 percent of Americans “always or usually” live paycheck to paycheck, which was up from 49 percent in 2008 and 43 percent in 2007. • 66 percent of the [...]
Wait A Minute! Slow Down! Take Your Time!
Just slow down and read! What better way to be part of the slow movement than to have a good read. The Slow Books movement is about getting back into the love of reading good books. Few people these days spend time each day reading for sheer enjoyment. When we have time for leisure we [...]
DeLaVerita Reports: Jeff’s ADD Mind Twitter Ranking is 2,195,947 Out Of 7,278,519
Huffington Post’s (HP) crack news team has done it again, providing us with the most timely, up-to-date and important news. In their latest news scoop, HP provides a list of the most most followed Tweeters (Most Followed On Twitter: #140 Most POPULAR Tweeters). Not seeing Jeff’s ADD Mind ranked within that top 140 followed Tweeters, [...]
Intelligent Design: The Magazine for Creationists & Anti-Darwinists
What if God had created a magazine? Perhaps it would look something like this. Click on image to enlarge. Print PDF
Huffington Post: Reporting the Hard Hitting News
Very cute tush. Thank you, Huffington Post. For more cute tush, see this post. Prefer breasts? See this important post from Huffington Post. Related articles by Zemanta How The Huffington Post’s Traffic Is Killing Rival News Sites (businessinsider.com) Print PDF
