You are what you eat

Psychopaths are more likely to eat bitter food.

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Martial Law

The good-guy government in Star Wars is a republic with princesses, in other words, “an undemocratic, ineffective government maintained by a combination of religious awe and martial force.”

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Prison Earth

K.S. Robinson, who has a nasty case of Stockholm Syndrome about the gravity well we are all trapped in, has written a novel and an essay trying to kill the interstellar dream once and for all. The son of a bitch is probably right.

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tRump

Can’t we extend Godwin’s Law so that suggesting we act like the Nazis also ends the discussion? Donald Trump, who thinks that a racist database is a great advance over armbands, has now taken a fake statistic from a source that says we “should have listened to the Austrian chap with the little moustache.”

Kleptocracy

In 2014, for the first time ever, law enforcement officers took more property from American citizens than burglars did.