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politicsMay 21, 2023May 23, 2023

Runaway Rant: Accepting Dystopia and Not Daring to Hope

Imagine what America would look like if it were ruled by corporations and institutions that paid off politicians and got away with doing whatever they wanted in their own self-interest. Somehow it would look exactly like it does now.

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philosophy politicsMay 14, 2023May 14, 2023

Runaway Rant: How to Recognize Evil

We’re not allowed to talk about evil in polite society. It’s considered almost so backward as to be medieval. But the real reason is that evil will not stand for being pointed out and always masquerades as good. Nobody comes right out and acknowledges that they are doing evil things, except perhaps the Marquis de…

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politicsMay 2, 2023May 10, 2023

Runaway Rant: The Despicable, anti-American Smearing of Robert F. Kennedy Jr.

Is RFK the crackpot, fringe, hopeless candidate we are told, or are we seeing big corporations trying to shut down the one man – cut from the same cloth as his uncle and father – who would really stand up to them to protect the average citizen and save the middle class?

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politics RantDecember 26, 2022December 26, 2022

Runaway Rant: ‘Twas an Ebeneezer Potter Xmas

[written in one sitting as fast as I could because I got a guest coming. Note, my Xmas was fine. Enjoyed the vintage Americana I indulged in, from listening to classic Xmas tunes, to watching “It’s a Wonderful Life” for the first time, and spending it with my wife, etc. Here, I’m talking about the…

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politicsOctober 7, 2022October 7, 2022

Runaway Rant: Candice and Kanye’s WHITE LIVES MATTER attire goes too far and misses the point

“WHITE LIVES MATTER” is a badge of overarching conservative beliefs; it’s overstatement risks slipping into racism proper; and it [unwittingly] plays into the hands of the atrociously backwards belief that we are defined by our biology. Because it uses race as a pivot point for partisan politics, to the degree that it attempts to alleviate…

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politicsApril 23, 2022May 6, 2022

Runaway Rant: Jack Vale Shut Down, NFT Community Silent On Censorship, Twitter Users Not Consulted About Musk …

“I think everything out there is dangerous. It’s just not a free world anymore. You can’t say things that you want to say. You can’t express yourself anymore. Comedians all over the country – all over the world – are paranoid now that they’re going to say the wrong thing, and get canceled. You’re gonna’…

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politicsApril 20, 2022May 6, 2022

Is shadow banning Real? If So, Is it Pernicious, or Do the Ends Justify the Means?

The site used to be fun, funny, and a great tool for exchanging information. Now it feels like what the world would be if the eight most vile people in Brooklyn were put in charge of all human life, a giant, hyper-pretentious Thought-Starbucks. ~ Matt Tahibbi, Twitter’s Chickens Come Home to Roost, Apr 14 2022.…

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philosophy politicsApril 17, 2022

The Argument for Free Speech & Against Censorship

[I originally published this in 2017, then again in 2020. Sadly, it’s as relevant today as ever, and probably more so, because the longer we keep drifting towards censorship, the harder it is to free ourselves of it.] You can have free speech without violence or oppression, but censorship requires force, which means at least…

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art criticism politicsApril 9, 2022May 6, 2022

Is Banning Artists Because of Their Nationality Cruel and Inhumane?

Recently, since the Russian invasion of Ukraine, there has a been a very positive movement in the crypto and NFT community to support Ukrainian artists. Why not give a little extra help to creators who are under increased to extreme duress? And after the war started, I discovered that a lot of the NFT artists…

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politics UncategorizedFebruary 9, 2022April 1, 2022

How an Ideologue Tried to Get Me Cancelled From Twitter

I’ve sat on this story for a month because it is so unpleasant for me to discuss. However, I have to analyze this, and defend myself, because if I don’t, it may come back to haunt me. But first I must confess something. I compared someone’s abstract painting to an abstract painting made by a…

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philosophy politicsApril 21, 2021April 22, 2021

Runaway Rant: the news isn’t new, and the latest urgent conversations took place before I was born

The conversations we are told we so desperately need to have, have already been had, and better, before I was born. Science races forward so fast that the science fiction of my youth has been outstripped in many instances — consider the Starship Enterprise didn’t even have computers that could run Windows — and the…

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politicsJanuary 14, 2021January 14, 2021

Runaway Rant: Participating in politics is inviting war into your life.

I’m retiring from politics. I’d managed to avoid engaging in the political quagmire for months on end, largely because I publicly pledged to do so after the media and politicians created an extremely volatile, self-fulfilling prophecy of racial discord, hatred, distrust, and violence, all in the name of advertising clicks and other ulterior motives. I…

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politicsJanuary 12, 2021January 14, 2021

Runaway Rant: Is it Time to Crush the Conservatives?

I’ve railed against conservatives on this blog. When authors of a study dared suggest that political affiliation was dependent on “predispositions” rather than choice, I fumed: That kind of milquetoast thinking is just finding excuses for social cowardice. We know that social change has demanded great sacrifice, because those who have power, whether they are…

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philosophy politics RantJanuary 10, 2021January 12, 2021

Reality is Now the Enemy!

I’m old school on reality. Well, technically, I’m kinda’ old period. And white. And male. You could say I am a remnant of a bygone era. I still believe that reality should be sought, and accepted, and that to do so is healthy and necessary. We should defer to the greater argument. There are a…

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philosophy politicsDecember 11, 2020December 11, 2020

The Argument for Free Speech & Against Censorship

[This is a re-post of an article I wrote 3 years ago, and which sadly has become increasingly relevant, so much so that one can’t even articulate why it is relevant today without risking being censored for doing so. Censorship is no longer the bad word it used to be, or something liberals oppose on…

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politics UncategorizedNovember 10, 2020November 12, 2020

Tricking Americans into Hating Each Other for Profit and Political Gain

I vowed on September 26th not to say anything on my blog about politics until the election was over. I succeeded, and it’s a lot harder to NOT speak out than it is to vent. The election lingers, but the voting is over. I just have a small observation or two. The vast majority of…

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politicsSeptember 26, 2020

Ain’t Sayin’ Squat ‘Til After the Election

At least until after the election, folks. The political atmosphere has been in the red for months, and as election time gets closer, it’s likely to spill over into an eruption of anger and lashing out. Well, that’s if the last election is anything to go by. And there are still people I’ve had no…

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politicsAugust 30, 2020November 14, 2021

The Greater Lesson of Jane Eliot’s Sadistic “Blue Eyes/Brown Eyes Experiment” on School Children.

Russel called me names, and I hit him. Hit him in the gut. What did he call you? Brown eyes. I’m sure you’ve heard about Jane Eliot’s infamous Blue eyes/Brown eyes Experiment, hearkening back to a time when we were permitted as a society to conduct social experiments on students for the greater good of…

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art philosophy politicsAugust 10, 2020May 4, 2023

Protected: Runaway Rant: Why everything is backwards.

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philosophy politicsJuly 27, 2020July 28, 2020

We can’t agree about anything because…

These days everything is controversial and there’s little certainty about anything. Take for example the endless battles over what constitutes a healthy diet [consider Jordan Peterson and his daughter only consume beef, salt, and water]. A big part of this is, I suspect, because somewhere along the line people stopped believing that it is essential…

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art criticism politicsJuly 16, 2020July 17, 2020

No Country for White Artists?

Museum Curator forced to resign
over “toxic white supremacist beliefs”!

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politicsFebruary 26, 2020February 26, 2020

Runaway Rant: 2020 a Wake-up Call!

We humans are really flubbing this new decade. It’s moving a little beyond just being insulting and enervating. Now it’s starting to hurt. Above you can see the prognosis for the next 5 days in terms of pollution where I live, juxtaposed with a close-up of the SARS-CoV-2 virus, which causes the COVID-19 disease. The…

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politicsMarch 4, 2019March 6, 2019

Alex Jones is a complete and utter nutter: Aliens, Nazis, and Baby Organ Harvesting.

“We’re in contact with aliens… It was the Germans who first got in touch… The aliens would mind meld and give them the technology… They’re bad aliens… Are you surprised the Nazis were influence by demons?… SS castles where they go, where the aliens want blood, so they’d kill like 20 kids and everything… it…

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parody politicsMarch 3, 2019March 4, 2019

New Rules for Chess Tournaments. It’s Woke Chess, I Guess.

A radical new approach to chess. Deciding winners by jury instead of by checkmate?  I’d probably stick with the old version. The new variety, outlined in the blog-post I’m sharing below, seems be a bit nebulous for this old dog. Somehow this reminded me of the art world, but don’t mind me. I shall shuffle…

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philosophy politicsDecember 2, 2018December 4, 2018

Runaway Rant: That’s Not Reality

What makes my runaway rants rants is that I write them in one go, initially without editing. I will go back and fix my more egregious typos, misspellings, and so on, but not change the flow. The ideas come one after the other, without an outline. It’s a way to keep it simple, but also…

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art criticism politics Rant UncategorizedAugust 20, 2018August 20, 2018

Runaway Rant: Morality is the Enemy of Art

Anything that opposes art is probably immoral, even or especially when it wraps itself in the cloak of morality. The least we can ask of moral crusaders is that they are fighting for the highest good, and not merely advocating for their own special interests and personal benefit in and through alienating and disenfranchising others.…

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politicsAugust 7, 2018August 12, 2018

Alex Jones is a nut, but his being universally banned is chilling.

I’d sooner get my news from The Onion or The Weekly World News than from Alex Jones, but his sudden disappearance is cause for alarm. The underlying and inescapable message is that anyone can be scrubbed from social media without accountability. Your on-line existence can be ERASED, and we must simply have blind faith that…

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politicsJuly 11, 2018July 12, 2018

No More Swimsuits for Miss America, and why that’s a bit weird.

There are 2 inconclusive conclusions I’ve recently come to appreciate. One is that nobody’s perfect. Two is that nobody lives in reality. These aren’t grand new observations, but just the kind of thing one grows to understand more over time. It helps me deal with other people and with my relationship to them. We’re all…

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