Category Archives: People

The aim of practical politics

“The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.”

— H. L. Mencken
(1880-1956) American Journalist, Editor, Essayist, Linguist, Lexicographer, and Critic

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Malala

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Now that was fun. Malala Yousafzai was just on Ellen. It seems the young Nobel Prize winner has a fund to further the education of girls in the most vulnerable areas around the globe. Ellen of course donated many, many computer things and money for the Malala Fund . Needless to say this one young woman has done an unbelievable amount of good, simply by having an unfathomable amount of courage.