Sailing the Last Voyage with Newton and Pascal
Timothy Fountain's piece That Golden Age of Porn is an honest piece on the era of 1969-1984 when porn was distributed freely (thanks in part to SCOTUS) in print and in theatres. Porn was a major disseminator of the sexual revolution. Tim's major contribution in this piece, however, was to remind everyone of the routine …
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To his army of ardent followers, Tom Holland has a unique ability to bring antiquity alive. An award-winning British historian, biographer and … The shadow of Pax Romana
https://astrofella.wordpress.com/2023/07/07/the-question-of-a-weltanschauung-sigmund-freud/ This is the last in Books and Boots' series on Sigmund Freud, where Freud presents one of his most wide-ranging polemics against Christianity. Reviewing that polemic leads the author to find Freud wanting in his critique, to say the last. Although he gives his own reasons, I have a different take on why Freud's …
https://astrofella.wordpress.com/2023/07/05/future-of-an-illusion-and-other-writings-on-religion-sigmund-freud/ Another (maybe the last) in this series. It shows that, even for people sympathetic with Freud's project, his atheism doesn't have as strong of a case as he--or those who continue to make that case--thought it did. Includes a summary of a dialogue with Oskar Pfister, a Swiss pastor's son who made a case …
https://astrofella.wordpress.com/2023/06/28/the-question-of-lay-analysis-sigmund-freud/ This is probably as good of a summary of Freudianism as I have found. What we would probably call today "Cultural Freudianism" was the most powerful force driving American thought (such as it was) in the 1960's and early 1970's. I also think it has ruined our culture by turning life into a hypersexualised …
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Democratic Massachusetts Sen. Elizabeth Warren and Republican Ohio Sen. J.D. Vance are uniting to introduce legislation announced Thursday to reduce the risks of large bank failures. The Failed Bank Executives Clawback Act would propose harsher penalties for failed bank executives, which serves as a bipartisan response to the collapse of Silicon Valley Bank (SVB) in early March, according to Warren’s office. …
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A woman who accused Joe Biden of sexual assault during the 2020 presidential race appeared Tuesday in Moscow and said she was asking President Vladimir Putin for Russian citizenship. Tara Reade, who worked in now-President Biden's congressional office for a short period in 1993, said she wanted to stay in Russia after a Republican lawmaker told her …
I think it's fair to say that we've passed the "point of no return" on the straightforward repayment of our Federal debt. The point that happened is up for debate; I'm inclined to believe that it took place towards the end of the Obama administration, when the current Occupant was only Vice-Occupant (and occupying himself …
As Twitter is finding out with state-funded media like the CBC and NPR: The Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) announced it will quit posting content on Elon Musk-owned Twitter, joining other U.S.-based media outlets. “Our journalism is impartial and independent. To suggest otherwise is untrue. That is why we are pausing our activities on @Twitter,” CBC wrote …
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A friend of mine landed himself in serious trouble after reading a Pentagon report on a plane: the passenger alongside him, another US Defense …The real scandal behind the Pentagon leak
