Two Minutes' Hate

A brilliant idea, why has no society adopted it for real? Is Julian Assange Emmanuel Goldstein, or does he just wish?

My Superbowl Pick

The Chamber of Deputies in Brasília.

Don't Be A Hater

Blacks have a very enlightened, Zen saying: "don't hate the player, hate the game." And yet they tend to apply it simply to the romantic realm.

World history is a game. Europeans have been successful players, but they didn't invent the rules.

Don't be a hater. Instead see the game for what it is, and the players as the pawns they are.

After all, Ozymandias too was a winner.