Tag Archives: stupid government

Living with the aftermath

Posted on 2025-05-02 by TPOL Nathan

The various news outlets are babbling about a half-ton half-century-old Soviet spacecraft is going to fall from the sky sometime this month. No one knows exactly when or where it will fall – given the orbit, population, and the ratio … Continue reading →

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Patriotic Evil?

Posted on 2025-04-22 by TPOL Nathan

The Rapid City (South Dakota) recently had this top-of-front-page headline. Of course, this is not “news” – it is opinion, and indeed, the vilest of propaganda. Even more evil than the government propaganda (the “patriotic” indoctrination) that this editorial (disguised … Continue reading →

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Solving the world’s problems

Posted on 2025-04-03 by TPOL Nathan

Buckminster Fuller once wrote: If you take all the machinery in the world and dump it in the ocean, within months more than half of all humanity will die and within another six months they’d almost all be gone; if … Continue reading →

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We expect too much of government

Posted on 2025-03-29 by TPOL Nathan

One reason that government reform fails, going all the way back to Babylon and Egypt and ancient Chin, is because people refuse to look at the basics. One of those is answering the question, “What should governments do?” What is … Continue reading →

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Projection? Gaslighting? Narcissism?

Posted on 2025-01-20 by TPOL Nathan

Well, are you celebrating Martin Luther King Jr.’s birthday today? Or still mourning for POTUS James Earl Carter? Or celebrating and rejoicing in the inauguration of Trump 2.0 – the new regime of The Donald? Or just celebrating the ending … Continue reading →

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Consequences

Posted on 2024-12-09 by TPOL Nathan

The collapse of the Assad regime in Syria, and growing evidence of collapse in Ukraine remind us of this: It is nothing new, of course: sooner or later, the impacts (the results) of our choices catch up with us. For … Continue reading →

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Arrogant condescention or stupidity or…?

Posted on 2024-11-14 by TPOL Nathan

(Thanks to Scott for this!) The FDA announced early last month that close to 80,000 pounds of Costco’s Kirkland Signature Butter was being pulled and that recall has just been upgraded to a Class II as of November 7.  The … Continue reading →

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Ancient government no different than the modern version

Posted on 2024-11-09 by TPOL Nathan

As we listen today to the media-inspired and politician-encouraged screams of how Americans’ rights have been taken away, how women are property and a hideous military (well, fascist) dictatorship has descended upon the American people? What are we to think? … Continue reading →

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Lesson not learned from almost two centuries ago.

Posted on 2024-07-21 by TPOL Nathan

Nobody wants to learn lessons from Russia or Turkei, do they? But… By the time 80,000 Russian troops invaded Ottoman territory in June 1853 at the outbreak of the Crimean War, the imperial finances of the Ottoman Empire were already … Continue reading →

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CITIES: Doomed, and the sooner the better

Posted on 2024-07-10 by TPOL Nathan

Readers of this commentary know we here at TPOL are NOT lovers of urban areas. We imagine that the recent commentary on Chicago’s homicide record supports that understanding. Indeed, as time goes on, our distaste for the places (including their … Continue reading →

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