Tag Archives: Communism

The Unbearable Lightness of Being

Posted on April 14, 2024 by Joel D. Hirst

We love our dogs because they were never expelled from paradise, like we were. They are our only true lasting final link to perfection and to our role as was imagined by the creator (only people who have owned a … Continue reading →

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Banana Communism Sucks

Posted on November 18, 2023 by Joel D. Hirst

I have a long-standing argument with my wife. “What is the worst character flaw?” I ask her. “Rage” she answers. “Because when you lose control, you destroy everything indiscriminately.” “But rage,” I give my time-worn rebuttal, “can be useful. To … Continue reading →

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The Epic Tale of Revolutionary Venezuela

Posted on September 23, 2023 by Joel D. Hirst

Venezuela continues to be in the news daily. The efforts by that beautiful, valiant, sad Caribbean country to find rock bottom continue to be befuddled by the greedy and the criminals, long after the utopians and the communists have wandered … Continue reading →

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Homage to Catalonia by Orwell

Posted on August 21, 2023 by Joel D. Hirst

In many ways the Spanish Civil War defined the fight (violent and non-violent) that has plagued the industrialized world. The left (utopian progressives who see a new order of harmony and equality just over the bloody horizon) wins elections and … Continue reading →

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On Force

Posted on June 14, 2023 by Joel D. Hirst

The Eastern mind has a different understanding of God than the West does. Our God is rational, Aristotelian even. He is a moral philosopher and a physicist. And a humanitarian. We’re comfortable with this God; He fits into our neat … Continue reading →

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“Dialogue With Death” – A Book Review

Posted on June 5, 2023 by Joel D. Hirst

Arthur Koestler was one of the writers that made the 1920s and 1930s and into the 1940s such a remarkable time in Europe. Hemingway, Camus, Ezra Pound, Fitzgerald. The list goes on. Many of them also cut their teeth as … Continue reading →

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Una Épica Sobre La Venezuela Chavista

Posted on May 10, 2023 by Joel D. Hirst

Vivi siete años en Venezuela. Lo conocí en la época ‘buena’; es decir, los tiempos de Carlos Andres Perez “2”. Y después los años de Hugo Chavez. La única manera de contar la historia de la Venezuela Chavista es atraves … Continue reading →

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“The Crossing Place” – A Book Review

Posted on April 23, 2023 by Joel D. Hirst

There’s a principle in chemistry called “Isotopic Abundance” which is basically the relative proportions of a stable isotope in each element. These isotopes come from the ground, the land, the water and even the air in a particular location and … Continue reading →

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Our Fear Society

Posted on February 23, 2023 by Joel D. Hirst

Twenty years ago I marched into Hugo Chavez’s Venezuela, copy of Natan Sharansky’s “The Case for Democracy” under my arm, determined to be part of that epic fight of democracy vs. tyranny. Bush called it the “Freedom Agenda”. Sharansky’s was … Continue reading →

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The Silk Roads and Slavery

Posted on August 29, 2022 by Joel D. Hirst

There was a thread running through “The Silk Roads: A New History of the World” that demands attention: the issue of slavery. Slavery as a constant. The empires of the past all became wealthy on the slave trade; and it … Continue reading →

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