Tag Archives: Opinion

“We live in the United States of Amnesia”

By Steve | Published: March 20, 2010
Gore Vidal said those words in the documentary Why We Fight. To me, it is the punchline to the question: What do you call the country that ignores the lessons of history and is doomed to repeat them? Vidal was explaining why we don’t understand the animosity that people in the Mideast have for the [...]
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The word for what I feel about Obama: Disappointed

By Steve | Published: November 29, 2009
I’m trying to be patient. But WTF: first we line up behind Russia and China in favor landmines, and now we’ll be escalating war?
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How much time is left to civilization?

By Steve | Published: October 16, 2009
What was going through that Easter Islander’s mind when he cut down the last palm tree, sealing his people’s doom? Was the last Viking to die in Greenland a wealthy man or a peasant who stormed his farm to butcher his last cow? Jared Diamond excels at putting human flesh on the archaeological bones left [...]
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