Ducks are not the only species to practice bullying. Stalin, one of my Shetland geese, also practices this terrible “sport” against some of the other members of her own species. Cows, goats, and even innocent little lambs all bully their own species. Ducks, however, seem to have taken ...
She told Immaculeé that only a few days later, answer by answer, her problems were resolved. Immaculeé is humbled when she hears testimonies like this: “What did I share that made this happen?” she said. “It makes you feel small. Honestly, in truth, the help is not mine. My job...
As Lenin said when addressing the problems, as well as the obvious solution of reversion to capitalism, he talks about how the “ unprecedentedly dislocated country is just barely beginning to recover, is only just realizing the full depth of its ruin, is suffering the most t...
The great issues facing us today are not Republican issues or Democratic issues. The political parties can debate the means, but both parties must embrace the end objective, which is to make America great again. —Lee Iacocca 90 Why are so many problems today perceived as problems of intoleran...
“The Death of Stalin” (2017) – A nice palette cleanser after “Cleopatra,”“The Death of Stalin” feels like the Russian equivalent of “Dr. Strangelove” focusing on incompetent idiots having to deal with problems they were never prepared for. Great dialogue, wonderful performances, and a...
We have problems at the new, higher level. We do not sit down and really think for ourselves, just plod along with the same-old, same-old routines. The Peter Principle is a famous business observation: People get promoted and promoted until the day they reach their own level of incompeten...
In the old Soviet Union(one sixth of the land surface of the planet), falsification of data of all kinds was a way of life(especially during the Stalin, Khrushchev and Brezhnev eras, when statistics were routinely altered to avoid problems with the planning bureaucracy).Thus the accuracy of ...
One of the book’s strengths lies in its ability to provoke thought and discussion. It invites readers to consider the broader implications of the problems depicted. The pacing of the novel is relentless, with tension building as the narrative unfolds. The author’s ability to tell the story...
1933, it was not until the 1980s, in the preliminary days before the fall of the Soviet Union, that the archives were opened and historians were able to review the report of Vasily Velichko, a Soviet propaganda worker who had dared to investigate and had even written to Stalin about it....
at times, three-quarters of the population of some colonies were under contracts of indenture. That this allowed the employing class to overcome their problems in hiring "help" should go without saying, as should its impact on American inequality and the ability of capitalists and landlords to ...