Monthly Archives: October 2013

Big Brother is watching you

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Paris in the Fall

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Filthy habit

Editorial note: If you have not yet read our mission statement above, please do so in order that you can put our blogs in context.  19 October 2013 A custom loathsome to the eye, hateful to the nose, harmful to the … Continue reading

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Patriotism

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Stop the world – I wanna get off!

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All you need is fame

Editorial note: If you have not yet read our mission statement above, please do so in order that you can put our blogs in context.  16 October 2013 “Religion is seen by the common people as true, by the wise as … Continue reading

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Market theology

Editorial note: If you have not yet read our mission statement above, please do so in order that you can put our blogs in context.  15 October 2013 “Do others, for they would do you” This is the central tenet of … Continue reading

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Epitaph for an American Galba

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Japanese civilization

Editorial note: If you have not yet read our mission statement above, please do so in order that you can put our blogs in context.  13 October 2013 Remark by a Japanese diplomat to Sir Edward Grey (1862 -1933), British Foreign … Continue reading

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Et tu, Brute!

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