Live And Let Live
By Jez Turner: First they came for the Fascists … First, they came for the Fascists and I did not speak up because I wasn’t a Fascist. Then they came for the Nazis, the neo-Fascists, the neo-Nazis and I did not speak up because I wasn’t any of those either. What did I say? “Live and let live”, and I got on with living my life. Then they came for the anti-Communists and I did not…
The Root Of All Evil
By Heordreedenn: There is a thought experiment – at least I hope it’s a thought experiment – concerning the best way to boil a frog. Apparently if you just chuck the hapless amphibian into a pan of boiling water it realises immediately that all is not well and jumps out at once. But if you put it in a pan of cold water, and heat it slowly, it never notices what is happening, or at least if…