Boring trash in the inbox
Somebody must be buying penis enhancers or they wouldn’t be sending me 8-10 messages about it every day. And this isn’t counting the messages about Viagra and Cialis. Do they know something I don’t?
Archive of entries posted by Robert Hanrott
Unions
The Multinational Monitor reported earlier in the year that nationwide union membership rates are dropping drastically, and laid part of the blame on company intimidation. One in five union officers were illegally fired in 2005, according to the Center for Economic and Policy Research. Companies can get away with it because the National Labor Relations …
Would they hadn’t discovered this!
Scientists have discovered that mammals without the gene IRS-1, which is involved in regulating the function of insulin, live 20-30% longer and have healthier more active lives than those with the gene. Those Epicureans who by definition seek a calm and peaceful life should be concerned. Next the scientists will be removing IRS-1 from hordes …
Morality and religion
We should rescue morality from Christian and Moslem ownership. Most of morality is common sense and pre-dates the Jews in Israel, not to mention Jesus. Human beings ten centuries or more ago were quite able to work out that murder was a bad idea, that stealing other people’s wives, slaves and sheep was anti-social and …
Disbelief
Disbelief now rivals the great faiths in numbers and influence. Never before has religion faced such enormous levels of disbelief, or faced a hazard as powerful as that posed by modernity. How is organized religion going to regain the true, choice-based initiative when only one of them is growing, and it is doing so with …