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
A simple conversation that explains the popularity of Communism in the modern world:
An interesting evolution of a certain media company’s view on paid family leave:
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
When you go overboard with inclusiveness:
Friendship can be found in the most unusual places and circumstances:
I don’t know about the other countries, but the one for America is absolutely spot on:
An interesting essay by Beaver on the subject of revolutions. Given the increasing rhetoric from both the far left and right on revolutions or the overthrowing of this and that, this proves to be a decent read. If one sit back and consider it, the election of Donald Trump, for better or for worse, was … More Beaver Transcript: On Revolution
