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Author Archives: Georg Gadow
KISS (Keep It Simple Stupid)
Nothing spreads faster and more effectively than stupidity, the simple, uncomplicated. Simple viruses and bacteria can devastate the complex human organism and whole communities, as can bullets and knives. No wonder that simplistic slogans wedded to simple destructive objects can … Continue reading
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Of Mystical Surrogates and Prejudiced Communication
The sex-psychologist Christoph Joseph Ahlers, in a recent interview with “Zeit,” repeated the idea that sexual interaction is the most intimate form of communication and that communication is the most important function of sex. Sounds lovely, but if we took … Continue reading
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Minor Scale
To be finely tuned and ever so predictably on time? Let us all! Is time only a tune clicking along too slowly to sing a song with us? Does in-tune so chain us into time that it only mirrors the … Continue reading
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Innocent Bystander
On December 3rd, the Military Times reported that the “International Security Assistance Force” in Kabul announced that it may have “accidentally killed three innocent Afghan civilians,” for the sake of international security, of course. The three “individuals” hit were 12, … Continue reading
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Access
A German high court just ruled that the 1.4 million servants of the Lord in Germany may indeed go on strike, if the spirit moves them. How many legions are doing God’s work in America we can only guess, given … Continue reading
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“Killing me softly, with your words…”
An average of 40 pages of lusty words the General is supposed to have written to his one (and only?) non-mistress, amounting to a solid body of work of 30,000 pages. Such love for lust! And that when he should … Continue reading
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Pleasure: The Target of All Organized Evil
The apple was good. What the god did was evil. And therein lies the difference of good and evil. Try to think of an organized religion that does not gain its strength by sucking on the blood of human pleasure … Continue reading
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Quaint
Schiller, in his famous Ode to Joy, declared that joy is the divine spark in all of us. Beethoven centered his last great work, the 9th Symphony, on this theme. Yet there is, at present, not a single entrance in … Continue reading
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Zero Interest
According to a report by Spiegel magazine, strip bar owners in Tampa expect lucrative business during the Republican convention, this coming week. One wily stripper even held a press conference because her act consists in stripping as a Sara Palin … Continue reading
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Posh Ethics
One strives to be bettah… Surely, rising to the cream of the riding crop also entails, at least at the level of the horse’s arse, that one has acquired an expensive taste in ethics, paid for with the sweat of … Continue reading
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Houses of Gossip
“And do you know what He said then…?” I have heard it said that people on Wall Street are ten times more likely to tell ruthless lies than the general population. According to these reports, 11% percent of them are … Continue reading
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Against
There is a rumor that some members of our political system are against everything, therefore they must also be against America. When any sense of justice, weighing what is fair and sustainable, on one hand, and what is blind greed, … Continue reading
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