Edgar Allen Poe was part of the landscape of Baltimore, when I was a kid. I’m pretty sure every high school English class had to read The Tell-Tale Heart. My favorite story was The Masque of The Red Death.
Edgar Allen Poe was part of the landscape of Baltimore, when I was a kid. I’m pretty sure every high school English class had to read The Tell-Tale Heart. My favorite story was The Masque of The Red Death.
There’s no way I’m the only person who has had this idea. But I don’t see a lot of talk about it, so it seemed like it was worth exploring.
There are a lot of woodturners on youtube that mix wood and resin, then turn it on the lathe.
Jean-Jacques Rousseau – a complicated and irritating man, but one of the enlightenment philosophers who helped justify the state’s authority. Nowadays, he’s mostly known for the social contract, which was his work that established a basis for a possibly legitimate government.
A lot of corporations are going to get bailed out; that’s because The Invisible Hand Of The Market(tm) must be handcuffed so it doesn’t slap anyone.
The story is told from the viewpoint of some vaguely unknown intelligent life-forms that live a few hundred light-years from where we do now.
I’ve worked for too many corporatist shitbags to have any instinct but “RUN!” when I hear the sound of corpocrat. That’s why mayor Pete made my flesh crawl – he deployed the same technique, which deflects responsibility, takes credit, and obscures the speaker’s agenda. It makes them (they think) sound smart, which means they think you’re a dumb sucker who’s going to fall for substanceless style.
In case you didn’t realize it, the stock market is a scam. One of the worst and scammiest things about it is that it’s been arranged so that your money becomes worth less, if you don’t invest in it: so you gotta play, and the game is rigged.
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I’m so disgusted by the way Americans will jump up and start waving flags as soon as “war” ideology is deployed. The “war on the coronavirus” just means that Trump’s bone spurs are going to act up again and he’ll have to spend his time being driven around in a golf cart until he feels better.
