Black Lives Matter or Black Lives Matter Too?
Do We Need To Add “Too”? To many, the phrase, “Black Lives Matter” is irksome. That phrase, though simple and to the point, has an undertone that suggests black lives matter to the exclusion of…
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Is It Just Me?
Phrases evocative of 1984? Is it just me or do some of the phrases associated with this medical crisis anamnestic of Orwell’s 1984, not literally perhaps, but evocatively? Social distancing, essential workers, essential businesses, contact…
Justice, Revenge, or Liquor
Justice, Revenge, or Liquor? The callousness of the George Floyd’s arresting police officers in Minneapolis, MN, if the news reports bear any resemblance to the truth, is appalling. Where were the supervisors to stop the…
The Genetic Fallacy of Tracking Manufacturers
Crime First. Apprehension Second. Tool Tracing? There is a proposal afoot that would require both the upper receiver of the modern sporting rifle (the section that houses the bolt and barrel) and the lower receiver…
HR 838 The Beginning of the Thought Police
C’mon, this is 2020 not 1984Or, And you want more unaccountable bureaucracy? One of the founding principles in English law is that one actually has to break some statute to be guilty of law-breaking (Oh,…
An Open Letter to House Speaker Nancy Pelosi
Only Authoritarians Write Their Edicts in Secret Dear Speaker Pelosi, If what I hear is true, and your purpose behind the refusal to convene the House is to write a recovery proposal that would be…
OMG! Corona Virus in the White House
OMG! Corona Virus in the White House? OMG! Corona virus in the White House? How could they. Elites don’t get corona–that’s a disease only for the little people. So that must mean that the peripherally…
The Curse of the Lemming
Lessons From Nuremberg The end of World War II saw a theretofore unprecedented event: criminal trials levied against the perpetrators of the Holocaust, and others who committed heinous atrocities against human beings. The upshot of…
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An Introduction My name is Syme Antipathic. It should be quite obvious that this is a pseudonym, inspired by George Orwell’s book, 1984. However, the name is where the similarity ends. Orwell’s Syme was thoroughly…