by Carl Howard | Jun 22, 2012 | Blog Topics, History
In case you missed the recent post that broke the internet, a Mormon blogger comes out as being gay and happily married to a woman who knows he’s gay and they have a great sex life etc etc. Over 6,000 words (apparently) of him and his wife explaining what it’s like....
by Carl Howard | Feb 6, 2012 | Atrocities and Oppression, Biases and Fallacies, Blog Topics, History, Race, Science and Skepticism
An awesome letter has been making the rounds on the internet. It’s a 1865 reply by Jourdan Anderson (a former slave) to his former master Colonel P.H. Anderson. P.H. Anderson wrote asking Jourdan Anderson* to come back to work for him. Jourdan Anderson was living in...
by Carl Howard | Jan 16, 2012 | Atrocities and Oppression, Blog Topics, History, Society
I’ve been reading a lot about the Gulags lately including the monumental Gulag Archipelago by Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn. I’ll post more later but I thought it was especially important to translate a page by Shalamov that I found. Varlam Shalamov is famous for his Kolyma...
by Carl Howard | Jul 5, 2011 | Atrocities and Oppression, Blog Topics, History, Society
This post is the last in a series of 3 posts (first here, second here) about the monstrosities of the Russian prison system. As mentioned, I didn’t find the worst thing to be the terrible living conditions or even the tortures invented by the administration. The worst...
by Carl Howard | Jul 4, 2011 | Atrocities and Oppression, Blog Topics, History, Society
This post continues from last week’s post on a Russian prison system documentary. As I said, the poor living conditions may be the least of your worries. The second issue is kinds of abuses the guards dish out. I’m sure you’ve seen plenty of exposes of stunning abuse...
by Carl Howard | May 19, 2011 | Biases and Fallacies, Blog Topics, History, Language, Society
Luke Muehlhauser has a very interesting page up where he’s run every inaugural speech from every US president through an automatic reading level analyser. Here is the page for the full graph and stats. For the lazy, it basically starts off very high from George...
