Man settles a racial discrimination lawsuit, takes settlement check to a local bank only to be refused service, resulting in a second lawsuit and potential payment. We live in a strange world. Link to the article: https://tinyurl.com/rksapck Or internet archive if you don’t feel like clicking on the news site itself: http://archive.ph/EX4RG
A funny, but sad tale. Hopefully similar situations do not occur from our recent involvement with Iran:
Something from Beaver that’s pretty related to our current society, given the funny statistics we’ve been seeing for the past years on things like unemployment or inflation rates: Sanity is not statistical. George Orwell wrote those words in 1984. Back then, the meaning of this phrase was that it does not matter how many people … More Beaver transcript – On Statistics
The motivation for self improvement can come from the strangest places:
A horrible trap many people fall in. At the coming of a new year, it’s a good time to see if you might be stuck in the same rut:
A most curious misunderstanding:
A simple conversation that explains the popularity of Communism in the modern world:
An anon complains about his mysterious inability to find a girlfriend:
A fairly brief essay by Beaver on the nature and use of propaganda in politics. Comparing his ideals with what one can easily see in main stream media in the west is rather disheartening, however. Propaganda is not merely a useful tool, but a necessity in a functional nation. Propaganda has become a dark word … More Beaver Transcript: On Propaganda
Friendship can be found in the most unusual places and circumstances:
