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• A Look at the Amharic Language

  Method and Conclusion. See here. Results. A ratings system was designed in terms of how difficult it would be for an English-language speaker to learn the... Read more

  Posted on 28 December 2015 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• A Look at Tachelhit and Tamazight, Two Berber Languages

  Method and Conclusion. See here. Results. A ratings system was designed in terms of how difficult it would be for an English-language speaker to learn the... Read more

  Posted on 28 December 2015 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• A Look at Berik, Amele, and Valman, Three Languages of New Guinea

  Method and Conclusion. See here. Results. A ratings system was designed in terms of how difficult it would be for an English-language speaker to learn the... Read more

  Posted on 28 December 2015 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• A Look at the Australian Aborigine Languages

  Method and Conclusion. See here. Results. A ratings system was designed in terms of how difficult it would be for an English-language speaker to learn the... Read more

  Posted on 28 December 2015 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Repost: The Beaumont Children!

  

  Original here. This is one of the most popular posts on the blog. The Bizarrepedia article on the subject implies that I have one of the best accounts of this... Read more

  Posted on 28 December 2015 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• The Real Reason the Viet Cong Won in the Vietnam War

  EPGAH writes:The Russians gave the revolt guns and bombs, without which, they would’ve lost.Bottom line is that the Russians and Chinese funded and armed... Read more

  Posted on 28 December 2015 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Why “They Have Too Many Kids” Is a Bad Argument Against Third World Poverty

  EPGAH writes:You keep saying the Third World “breeds normally”, but that’s not true, otherwise they wouldn’t outnumber us in our own countries–and for that... Read more

  Posted on 28 December 2015 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• What Would a Progressive, Sane Immigration Program Look Like?

  Repost from the old site:Let’s take a look at what a progressive Immigration Sanity (IS) project might look like, along with some possible principles:1. Junk... Read more

  Posted on 27 December 2015 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Changing Definitions of “Communism” in Our Era

  Repost from the old site:As a member of the Left, I am used to purges and being told that, in general, I am not leftwing enough. Read more

  Posted on 27 December 2015 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Repost: Anti-Racist Idiot Goes to Haiti, Gets Raped, Is Thankful for the...

  

  Repost. This is an old post (original here) , but it is one of the most popular posts on the site. As there is a lot of nice discussion on race going on on he... Read more

  Posted on 27 December 2015 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Great Cheap Wines, Part 2

  Repost from the old site:In Part 1 of this series, we looked at some great cheap wines, mostly for $5 or less for 750ml or $10 or less for 1.5m. We will continu... Read more

  Posted on 27 December 2015 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Great Cheap Wines

  Repost from the old site:In this post, I will review some great cheap wines. Since I live on $14,000/yr, it’s essential that the wines I buy be inexpensive. Read more

  Posted on 27 December 2015 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• The Vietnam War as a Classic Peasant Revolt

  Mott 1969 writes:Land reform would have been a great idea. But, I don’t think the South’s dictatorship would’ve done it, ever. Have the U.S. leave and just... Read more

  Posted on 27 December 2015 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• And All the Women Love Him

  Miss My freak:I am pretty sure I just got out of a relationship with a polyamorus man…I was supposedly his only one minus his penis slipping into things here an... Read more

  Posted on 27 December 2015 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• The Cruel Joke Called “Free Trade”

  EPGAH writes:South Korea is only successful because of free trade. SAMSUNG Hyundai Daewoo You think those would happen if they didn’t have a trading corridor... Read more

  Posted on 26 December 2015 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• John Lennon and Yoko Ono – Happy Xmas (War Is Over)

  

  I have a lot of favorite Christmas songs, and this is definitely one of them. It came on the radio the other day. They played a couple of lines and I thought,... Read more

  Posted on 25 December 2015 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• The Best Christmas Gift You Can Give This Season

  What’s the best Christmas gift you can give this season? Of course it’s making a donation to this site! Why did you even have to ask that question?Seriously, I... Read more

  Posted on 25 December 2015 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Paris, 1938

  Eugene Jolas was the American responsible for publishing in his journal transition, slowly and in small segments, what would become James Joyce’s Finnegans... Read more

  Posted on 23 December 2015 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• “Democratic Capitalism in the Last Stages? Capital as Agency in Wolfgang...

  This is an excellent paper discussing Wolfgang Streek’s latest and popular book, Buying Time. People like to bash Marxism, but as a tool for analysis of... Read more

  Posted on 23 December 2015 POLITICS, SOCIETY

• Harm OCD Versus Other Conditions: Differential Diagnosis

  This is a repost of a very popular post of mine on psychology. It just received a massive update and major changes have been made. Read more

  Posted on 23 December 2015 POLITICS, SOCIETY