Attitudes of Hell

Hell is this: an inversion of truth - an inversion of value - a swamp, an inverted palace, with toads at the top. Consier hell to be mathematical opposite of heaven. All that is true is held to be lie, all that is lie is held to be truth. The good is seen as evil, the...

Authoritarian Upbringing, Indulgent Upbringing, and Clarity

The purveyors of the authoritarian model of raising children like to claim that indulgent upbringing breeds criminals and monsters. The purveyors of the indulgent model of raising children like to claim that authoritarian upbringing breeds violent people who cannot...

Hillary Clinton “Supporters” need to stop talking out of their vaginas.

"Recent news has come out that yet another self-professed Hillary Clinton “supporter” has jumped aboard theMcCain Puss- err, Bandwagon. This time, the naive wench is Lynn Forester de Rothschild, a prominent member of the DNC’s Platform Committee who, in her moments of...

Personal devices subject to search & seizure without warrant or probable cause

Many years ago the courts in the U.S. gave clear interpretations of the laws concerning search of personal information devices:  devices with limited amounts of memory could be searched by police without a warrant - but search of devices with large amounts of memory...

12 Steps to a Clear Mind: Put it in Drawings, Work & Live Better

I would not call it 12 Steps to Heaven, maybe 12 Steps to a Clear Mind would be more appropriate for 'Drawings that Will Change Your Life' by Ralph Perrine on Change This.  I was especially attracted to 'Balancing your Life'.

With 'Dark Angels' help, show Management Speak the Door

Ever met a 'mission statement' full of platitudes and jargon or worse even you were one of the guilty parties who wrote it, hope is on the way.  Thanks to Keeping Jargon at Bay by Emma Jacobs (Financial Times), I learned of the existence of Dark Angels. This is not a...

'Super' scanner shows key detail

"A new scanner has been unveiled which can produce 3D body images of unprecedented clarity while reducing radiation by some 80%. The new CT machine takes large numbers of X-ray pictures, and combines them using computer technology to produce the final detailed images. It also...

Our Blood for This

"Iraqi officials have agreed a final draft of a law that sets rules for sharing Iraq's oil wealth and aims to bring in billions of dollars of foreign investment to rebuild the mainstay of the economy. But crucially, international oil firms waiting for access to the world's...

HMRC. Review of Links with Large Business

The Chancellor has today announced the outcomes of the 2006 Review of Links with Large Business, chaired by Sir David Varney, former Chairman of HMRC. The review addresses key business concerns through proposals which will deliver: * Earlier certainty about the tax...

Mrs. Snowe, Who Wrote This Letter?

"James Taranto has an editorial in today'€™s WSJ which links to the text of a letter from Senators Rockefeller and Snowe to Rex Tillerson, CEO of Exxon Mobil. The letter is remarkable for several reasons. First, it is obvious that neither of the two signees actually wrote...