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Politics, Economics, and War

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The Rise of the Permanent Temp Economy. Illinois Proves (Again) That Ending the Death Penalty Saves Money. (Originally posted on Change.org) Thanks to Illinois, we now have more proof: ending the death penalty saves money — a lot of money — and quickly.

Illinois Proves (Again) That Ending the Death Penalty Saves Money

So what is California waiting for? All That Is Interesting - Calvin and Hobbes On War. Crimes Against Humanity. Having been conditioned your entire lives, the way we are all conditioned our entire lives, to receive sound-bite answers to questions we have never had the critical ability to form in our minds, forecloses our ability to interrogate reality and draw conclusions from it.

Crimes Against Humanity

That is the function of the media. That is the function of the educational system you understand. It's not to teach you to think critically, which is educational in value. It's to teach you what to think.