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Our Dirty Little Secret Revealed
I grew up in a small Midwestern town that was part of an industrial oasis located in the midst of corn and soybean fields. The oasis existed because bituminous coal had been discovered under the flat lands well over a hundred years ago. The mines attracted thousands of workers from Eastern and Southern Europe, including […]
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Stupidity and Depravity Can Be Mutually Exclusive
Video grab of Jaroslav Hunka in Canada’s Parliament A question: Is it the case that an individual member of an organization who rejects participation in the wider group’s malefaction is to be held equally culpable in the wider group’s evildoing just by virtue of affiliation? If so, this panders to the quilt by association fallacy. […]
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Ukraine’s Bandera Itch
The Russian invasion of Ukraine on February 24, 2022 has been justified by Russian President Vladimir Putin as a “special military operation” with a few barbed purposes, among them cleaning the country’s stables of Nazis. As with so many instances of history, it was not entirely untrue, though particularly convenient for Moscow. At the core […]
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