The 6th Amendment guarantees the rights of criminal defendants, including the right to a public trial without unnecessary delay, the right to a lawyer, the right to an impartial jury, and the right to know who your accusers are and the nature of the...
Nobody in the public conversation about #BLM police brutality seems to have understood it's the court system that's set up to brutalize the black, brown and working class and it's the unaccountable patrician judiciary that's been driving the corruption engine for decades. The prison Industrial...
The whole pandemic response feels like a succession of profit-chasing backroom deals with the devil, trying to extract the most money for the longest possible time from the taxpayer with the least public scrutiny. Accountability at every level is nil. Public funded gain of function research...
It used to be that credentials like phD or QC or MD or Rt.Hon were credentials of trust worth trusting. The democratisation of access to the humans behind the credentials - if one cares to look - has broken the trust paradigm by exposing the...
Becoming "infected" with a respiratory virus is not the same thing as being exposed to it. Nearly everyone's immune system is capable of fighting off low-level assaults by any kind of pathogenic virus, but by the same token, there is a threshold beyond which nearly...
Why is there no distinction – especially in testing – between SARS-Cov2 and Covid-19? The former is the virus, susceptible to antivirals and prevention measures. The latter is the immunological consequence and requires hypoxia and biochemical and immunological indicators (CRP, D-Dimer etc). Why are these...
Far Right Parties Gaining Ground All Across Europe! AfD in Germany, Marine Le Pen's FN in France, governing parties in Italy, Greece and Spain: far-right ideology taking root throughout the continent. This might be good clickbait and it is certainly a trend to watch closely. But that...
Whether you're Left or Right or Center, Progressive, Republican or Democrat, you'll already have a vague idea there's 'cheating' in the vast, complex electoral systems of American democracy. Depending how close you look into it and probably which party you support (if you're on one...
Ginsberg died old and lauded. Kerouac took the other road: no middle age behind a beard, bumbling about with mates and macaroni in tow, stoned and adored and pilfering pennies from mid western culture vultures. Instead death, hypothermia or cirrhosis, fallen face down on the...
The metaphor is based on the idea of lateralization of brain function although each half of a normal human brain is constantly communicating with the other through the corpus callosum. The metaphor is not meant to imply that the two halves of the bicameral brain...
Boris Johnson and his Brexiteer organ grinders have two goals: Exit Day and a Parliamentary majority. They go hand in hand. Winning a majority in the House of Commons will hand the new government absolute control over when and how Exit Day happens. It is...
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