by Ken JP Stuczynski | Jul 18, 2020 | Politics & Law, Society & Culture
In what is possibly the most counter-productive proposal under a head-shaking euphemism of police “reform”, a county Sherriff is urging lawmakers to double down on the very things people are trying to fix. Instead of listening to the community to...
by Ken JP Stuczynski | Sep 15, 2011 | Business & Economics, Philosophy & Ethics, Politics & Law, Society & Culture
{Based on Facebook and LinkedIn conversations in August 2011} I just realized that at our block party, the only two neighbors who had grilled steaks (and didn’t share) paid for it with my tax dollars, while those of us who earned what we ate, did so less...
by Ken JP Stuczynski | Jan 7, 2010 | Politics & Law
{This article is based on a recent rant of mine on a Yahoo! Group} This is worth repeating — from the rooftops: Anything bad can be made worse by turning it over to the government. And when they take it over, they take credit for meeting a need already filled by...
by Fulano de Tal | Oct 17, 2012 | Business & Economics, Politics & Law, Society & Culture
Capitalism: “We hit ya and we give ya some”[1] One of the core contradictions of capitalism since its earliest phase of ‘primitive accumulation’ has been the need to bring together disparate individuals and populations while maintaining their atomisation and isolation...
by Barry Fagin | Jan 7, 2013 | Business & Economics, Politics & Law, Society & Culture
{Published in the Colorado Springs Gazette, 6-11-09} Mikhail Zadornov is very popular in Russia. Which is too bad, because America is not popular with him. Here’s an excerpt from one of his comic routines: “Often my friends ask me ‘Why do you always talk about America...