Second and Third Thoughts
Why the constant, often blatant lying? For one thing, it functioned as a means of fully dominating subordinates, who would have to cast aside all their integrity to repeat outrageous falsehoods and would then be bound to the leader by shame and complicity.
How often have we seen this over the last year?
The late physicist’s radical ideas are still changing the way we look at the cosmos.
Reader Ken Phelps has produced an updated take on an old and classic Gary Larson cartoon. Larson on the left, Phelps on the right:
Masa’s sake is warm but not too hot, a balance of sweet and dry, giving me more of a heady high than traditional wine. I breathe in the fumes and take another sip. I pop some uni in my mouth and it’s bliss. Pure fucking bliss.
In the “shithole era,” the Republican U.S. senators who object to the president’s vulgarity have a choice to make.
Source: Has He No Sense of Decency?
The same question can be asked of some of our British politicians.
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