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Frédéric Passy

One does not humanize carnage, one condemns it, because one humanizes oneself.

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Minimum Shock
Sharing“Three restaurants vacated the Bay this week, with Berkeley’s Bistro …
Duck/Rabbit, Maiden/Crone, and Taxes
SharingRevolution! Must we? Can’t we reform at a reasonable pace? Well, whether …
The Color of Contempt
SharingThe good sense that California voters exhibited at the polls …
Of Wolves and Politicians
SharingShould Michigan’s Department of Natural Resources (DNR) create a wolf-hunting season? …
It’s a New Democracy!
SharingAnother New Year. Should I have used an exclamation point? Shouted out …

Denial Is a River in Argentina?
November 22, 2024
Paul Jacob on one country’s retreat from self-imposed poverty.Read More »
Watch Out!
November 21, 2024
Paul Jacob on strange edits in the Lone Star State.Read More »
The Hill as Hallucinogen
November 19, 2024
Paul Jacob on a false news story, gone but not …Read More »
Elon & Vivek to Cut Government?
November 18, 2024
Paul Jacob on who could help whom do what is …Read More »
Lost Justice, Long Island
November 15, 2024
Paul Jacob finds a sliver of a silver lining in …Read More »

Beto’s Best Reform
Sharing“All too often politicians focus on their own re-election,” says …
A New Tammany?
Sharing“We’ve been there and done that and voted not to …
Politicians Bearing GIFs
SharingYesterday, we discovered that the biggest term limits opponent in …
Seventh Time’s the Charm?
Sharing“You have to give the public something,” explained termed-out former …
Meet the Personal Interest
“Poll after poll finds American voters believing the country is …

Force Over Persuasion
SharingToday’s campus radicals assert that free speech is bad because …
The Debate Begins?
SharingThe Green New Deal? So yesterday! “Millionaires and billionaires” paying …
Greener Pastures
SharingThere is climate change going on. And some of it …
Noble Traitors
Today marks a solemn anniversary. Seventy-nine years ago — on Feb. 22, 1943 — three …
Overkill … for Your Health
SharingNews stories about death- and illness-by-vaping keep hitting us. But …