By Eric Le Roy
Content 16+ This morning, leaving lazy Poppy in bed, my Rhodesian Ridgeback Casper (Mr. Sipples) and I went down to our woodsy retreat close to our apartment. Wending our way through the brief greenery to our little path (for rainless summer will soon degrade the wild grass into brittle straw) and following it to the end, I sat in one of the plastic chairs somebody put … Read the rest
Content 18+ It's time to dive deeper into the rabbit hole, to uncover the layers of deception that cloak our so-called financial system. You see, in the grand scheme of things, what we perceive as scams are merely cogs in a much larger machine—a machine designed to perpetuate control, to maintain the illusion of choice and freedom.
Take, for instance, the curious case of Collateralized Debt Obligations, or CDOs. Ingenious, … Read the rest
By Eric Le Roy
Content 21+ (To End Their Lives Or Not – Part 1)
I shall try to answer the question in my own way. First, I think that the nature of the crime has to be considered. Should, for example, a serial pedophile murderer be spared the death penalty? Think of what he has done, and further, consider the ramifications. Not only has he destroyed life … Read the rest
By Eric Le Roy
Content 21+ The topic of Capital Punishment (execution of a human being by legal command of the state) has occupied a classroom chair in the school of my mind for many years, probably since before my early teens. (I am now at the blackboard with a piece of chalk in my hands, about to write the number 75). This means I have had roughly 65 … Read the rest
By Eric Le Roy
Content 18+ In reading Artem’s latest essay about genetic engineering “Genetic Engineering: A Moral Quandary or Humanity’s Evolutionary Pathway”, I am immediately struck by the fairness of the article. Thus it reads, mercifully, not like some ham-fisted polemic, but rather as the voice of someone quietly, but almost desperately, seeking answers to an event that is unmistakably (one could say ominously) gathering steam on … Read the rest
