Democratic Conversation

Protestors in Budapest and around Hungary demand that their president step down for admissions of lying to the people during his politcal campaign. Thailand’s army has seized power from its prime minister for his role in corruption and trying to solidify power into a dictatorship. How many people around the world today wonder why the […]

I just don’t think Heaven is for me.
Firstly, I can’t type its antonym onto certain computer screens without the letters changing to rare-steak red. A warning, perhaps?
Such a restriction makes me want to experience that OTHER place all the more, kind’a like a kid who’s never been allowed to … you know.
More than this little […]

“Do you know what’s killing Western democracy, George? Greed. And constipation—moral, political, ascetic. I hate America very deeply. The economic oppression of the masses—institutionalized. Even Lenin couldn’t foresee the extent of that.”
– “Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy” by John Le Carré
The quoted speaker is Bill Hayden, the fictitious “mole” inside the Circus—England’s secret intelligence agency, the […]