Governments that claim to be ‘led by the people’ have disempowered the grassroots communities that live under their rule, while the select elite hold onto the term as a way to block public challenges to their power. Democracy, rather than being seen as a practice that is constantly coming ...
This brief dossier is important because it casts the appointment of Woolsey as the chairman of Freedom House as not merely strange or comically sinister, but intentional. Freedom House is just one of the many effective tools used to implement the policies outlined in the Project for the New Ame...
Could you provide a definition for ‘frightening’? ‘Frightening’ is an adjective we use to describe something that causes fear or anxiety. What’s considered a sophisticated term for ‘creepy’? A more sophisticated term for ‘creepy’ that we might use is “macabre.” This term conveys a...
He believes that government bureaucracy should be radically gutted, and perhaps most provocative, he argues that American democracy should be replaced by what he calls a “monarchy” run by what he has called a “C.E.O.”— basically his friendlier term for a dictator. ...
I had prepared her a kittening box downstairs, but no, it wasn’t safe enough for her. (I have to say that the term “kittening” sounds ominous to me. “Beware the kittening!”) Anyway, Persephone turned out to be an excellent mother. She showed her babies – all boys – how ...
LTE, or 4G LTE, stands for Long Term Evolution. It's a standard for wireless communication of high-speed data on cellphones. Samsung was the first company to launch an LTE phone and then the first LTE smartphone. So "faster than LTE" is saying faster than a really fast smartphone. 0 ...
In the long term, it is simply not sustainable to let system 2 be a ruthless dictator who never allows oneself to be lazy or to enjoy simple things. It is actually quite counter-productive because your system 1 will try to sabotage your system 2 if you are not giving it what it wants...
It quickly becomes apparent that Moony is unaccustomed to socializing and that she has a grave misunderstanding of the term friendship. In my review published here for Nightmares Film Festival, I wrote “Horror film festivals are made for films like Dooba Dooba, and films like Dooba Dooba are...
The long-term solution to this problem is obvious. The people of the world need to launch an attack on their corrupt, incompetent leaders and overthrow them. Then build a new society, with a completely different set of priorities. The new societies will need to prioritize things like the env...
While Europeans have been dishing out cowboy films going back to the silent era, the termSpaghetti Westerntruly entered the vernacular with the release of directorSergio Leone’s masterpieceThe Good, the Bad and the Ugly, oddly, it being the third film of the “Man with No Name” trilogy ...