by Peter Venetoklis | Aug 21, 2017 | Opinion, Politics
Nazis suck. So do neo-Nazis, Nazi wannabes, Nazi sympathizers, and those who share the “values” of racism, oppression, broad hatred, ethnic cleansing, and all the rest of that garbage. The Third Reich and the war it started killed tens of millions of...
by Peter Venetoklis | Aug 18, 2017 | Culture, Opinion
Musician Jeff Hanneman, recently-deceased guitarist and lyricist for the heavy metal band Slayer, wrote a song called Angel of Death about the Nazi monster Josef Mengele. The song, the first track on the album Reign in Blood (1986), was controversial from the outset,...
by Peter Venetoklis | Aug 14, 2017 | Politics
Julie Borowski, a libertarian blogger, recently asked “Can the commies and Nazis just destroy each other?” This question, which if actualized would make for a much better world, suggests (at least to us nerdy types) a matter-antimatter annihilation. Yes,...
by Peter Venetoklis | Aug 13, 2017 | Culture, Opinion
My main Facebook feed is not normally populated by too much in the way of politics. Sure, I have a couple political “friends,” i.e. people who friended me via some political forums, who have 4999 other friends and post politics 50x a day, but they can be...
by Eugene Darden Nicholas | Aug 13, 2017 | Economics, Politics
Bellum Se Ipsum Alet – War Feeds Itself As has been a theme in these pages: when problems are solved politically, political power becomes entrenched and unadaptive; the problem then exists outside a rational feedback loop, and costs and benefit calculations are...
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