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3 Reasons Why TRUE Communism is Evil
Last night, in response to the people of Cuba standing up against the Communist regime that has oppressed them for half a century, I saw someone post a variation on the No True Scotsman fallacy. {Communism isn't bad. It's the people who implement it.} You've heard this before. If we could just put TRUE communism into practice, the world would become a Utopia. My initial response to this was that it doesn't matter if the idea of communism isn't bad, if all the communist leaders are evil. I'm tired of making this argument. Its pointless. Let's set the facts straight. Even the concept of communism is evil.Human Nature. Communists do not understand how human nature works. You cannot breed out selfishness, ambition or hatred. It is quite literally impossible. Even if you were able to find the exact right group of people to lead the first wave of ideal communism, eventually...
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Fad Diets & Sport Performance
Q: “What are your thoughts on fad diets like Keto and Paleo in football?”To preface the answer, the special needs of a footballer’s diet include: higher carbohydrate, protein and caloric needs, frequent fueling before training and matches and fast recovery. Any diet must be able to reflect these needs and ideally should take into account the player’s physiology and individual needs. A one-size-fits-all approach is always going to be fraught with issues, however, we should also be careful here to not throw the baby out with the bathwater. Fad diets certainly do have some benefits, namely that they provide easy-to-follow rules, add structure, and can typically make fast changes to physiology - though these can be too large or too fast because of the extreme nature of some diets.On the other hand, there are many consequences to be considered. Typically they revolve around eliminating...
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HOUSE OF MEMORIES
HOUSE OF MEMORIES, 10x10, multimedia on canvas. It's in my shop: www.brokentoyland.com/forsale.htm#art #artbrut #outsiderart #paintings #ghosts
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When Covering Crime, an Underreported Piece of the Puzzle
In an Atlanta Journal-Constitution op-ed this June, Georgia Attorney General Chris Carr described how his office is prioritizing standing up to a "gang-driven violent crime wave [that] threatens our quality of life and our economy." Asserting that the crime surge Metro Atlanta is currently experiencing is mostly driven by gangs, Carr laid out plans to begin more avidly clamping down on said gang networks. His comments in his recent op-ed were very much in line with priorities he outlined to me when we sat down together for a Merion West interview in Atlanta in 2019. During that discussion, he agreed with the assessment that, for a variety of reasons, the gang component receives a relative paucity of attention during discussions about crime in the United States. In my view, this is true when it comes to both news reporting on crime and policy debates about public safety.Carr's recent...
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Review: Robin DiAngelo’s “Nice Racism”
Robin DiAngelo’s new book, Nice Racism: How Progressive White People Perpetuate Racial Harm, is the third installment in what can be termed her “critical whiteness trilogy,” a group of books that attempt to promote white racial literacy and expand upon a discipline known as whiteness studies. As DiAngelo writes in her seminal 2011 paper “White Fragility,” “Whiteness Studies begin with the premise that racism and White privilege exist in both traditional and modern forms, and rather than work to prove its existence, work to reveal it.” Nice Racism, like all of DiAngelo’s work, is not interested in using science or rational inquiry to prove racism or white privilege exist. Rather, it sets out to reveal their existence through so-called lived experience, an overreliance on anecdotal observations, and the frequent citing of critical whiteness literature, the bulk of which also ignores the...
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Healthcare is bizzare
I am a director of nursing in a skilled nursing facility. Healthcare is becoming more and more bizarre everyday. I have some difficulties articulating the dissociative things I see happening but let me illustrate one odd discrepancy. I was recently reviewing an EOB (explanation of benefits) and noted that the "cost" of a specific drug was $16,500. The insurer paid $54. So does the drug actually cost $16,500 per administration? Or is the insurance company totally under reimbursing the drug company? What the heck is this? $54 is not even 1% of $16,500. So who is screwing with whom here? That would be like the grocery store telling me that that prime rib cost $100 and me responding 'I'll give you 37 cents'. I'd be laughed out of the door. I actually see a lot interesting differences on EOBs but this one was by far the biggest spread I have ever seen.
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