Irreverently Relevant

2021 is barely 3 months in and already there has been an attempted armed insurrection in the US capitol, a polar vortex that crippled Texas, and a US covid death rate of 519K. For the state of Texas, this has happened before, most recently in 1989 and, in 2011 when natural gas plants reported failures that resulted in rolling blackouts. The state of Texas has a GDP of $1.9 trillion with a capital "T," and still could ill-afford to deal with Winter. According to IMF info, Texas has a larger economy than Brazil (which comes in at 10th at $1.84 trillion), South Korea, and Canada.  While Gross Domestic Product is not an accurate measure of development (unlike HDI, GINI, and per capita income), Texas has always been a state on the move, with some of the world's largest corporations setting up shop in the state, most notably Oracle and Hewlett Packard. Tesla's CEO, Elon Musk, also set up in Austin TX.  This is the state with the second largest GDP (after California) in the ...

Once upon a time, long ago in 2018 in the land of Uganda, the president, Yoweri Kaguta Museveni, actually attempted to ²ban oral sex. His premise was that the mouth was "only for eating." Well, that's actually true. You can eat out, eat well, and eat every day. In a pretty roundabout way, one could infer that this clueless tyrant was actually right! The same country was in the process of directing ISPs to block pornographic websites, notwithstanding the onerous and draconian nature of the enforcement of that law. Virtual private network services coupled with other "anti-snoop" software like the tor browser would make such policing untenable, unless one were to install monitoring software on each and every end-user's device (which actually failed in China after such an attempt was made).  These laws, if they can thus be christened, are driven by the narrow moral scope of religious leaders. Religion, mainly Christianity and Islam, plays an intrusive role even ...

"It's our turn to eat!" "Which community gets the largest share of the national cake?" "Our leaders are chosen by god! We must pray for their well-being and not belittle them!" "This is Kenya!" Of course it is; does one expect to be in some planet of the apes in the anus of the solar system? Or, oh dear, might it be that the country is a sewer inhabited by giant flies? Such is life in a country which prides itself to be independent while continually bleeding itself dry to take on ever more massive infrastructural white elephants. Of course, only an independent nation would submit to the yoke of endless foreign debt. Some independence that is! Freedom, clustered on roads that are a colonial relic, in a country where dirt roads and potholes are as common as ants in sugar. Such is beautiful freedom. Traveling? Forget that - nut to butt outside some western embassy queueing for visas to escape this...freedom?  You could be white and have maggots ...