RiverCocytus

Ah. The question of 'what is a human'? Every day you develop and think and grow or age or decay you are becoming more human. Younger people are not less human than you or I; but rather, less human than the human they will be. Every cell in your body is human. But a human body is not a human. A human is greater than the sum of his parts, and a partier on the greeting of his sums. The greatest time to part with a human is in the summer. What a human is, is not a human being, but a human becoming. Well, its a human 'being' too. But that sentence was just too good to pass up. Being human ain't easy; but becoming human is being a human bein

I had thought a moment, after observing the result of the elections, that there was something very telling and odd in some people's responses to Michael Steele (whom I voted for, myself.) The most 'telling' thing? The term, (quite offensive) 'Oreo', used to describe what many people -- or some number of people at any rate -- thought or felt about Steele. 'Oreo' in other contexts of course is a delicious chocolate cookie with a cream filling. Or rather, two chocolate wafers with a section of cream. I digress. In this situation, it is a pejorative designed to convey the idea that a person's skin color is black, but they are a white person. W

Let's start here. World Government, like many other 'progressive' ideas, is something of a bogeyman for the right. We know this to be true, but why is it so? As far as imposing what you think is right on someone else, one might think that the right would love the idea of World Government. I mean, all you have to do is make it a theocracy, and the righties will jump right on board, right? Ok, enough patronizing. The fact is, anyone who loves their own liberty, and the liberty of others, should be at the very least leary of a world government. My experience in dealing with what happens when one person takes leadership over one other person te