POP QUIZ: How Well Do You Know The US?
By: Charles Rayner Kelly 1) How many US military personnel does the DOD estimate were raped or assaulted in 2010? 0 5 76 113 15,790 2) Democracy supposes who should [...]
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Peter’s Proverbs
After five thousand years of civilization, we are still all sentenced to a life of hard labor. All happy books are fiction. Any government is just a bunch of people [...]
The Lost World of ESL
The world of English as a second language (ESL) has been ruined by all the silly propaganda that students have been fed over the years, and I’m facing that same [...]
The Death of English
Bad English is the surest sign that we have reached the end of civilization. The following are not statements about descriptive versus prescriptive English. They are about the decline in [...]
Human Rights’ Day
A commonly accepted definition calls human rights basic freedoms “to which all humans are entitled, often held to include the right to life and liberty, freedom of thought and expression, [...]
How I Got Scammed
Every day you hear stories about well-meaning people getting ripped off through clever scams and believe it will never happen to them. Well, it happened to me. As I write, [...]
BNW Anniversary — Return to the Wilderness e-Book
Editor’s Note: Brave New World celebrates its first anniversary today. It began as a youngster’s experiment, and today, it stands with a contributor base of over 110, spanning 5 continents [...]
Capitalism & the Spy Market — An Analysis
I. The Merchandise It was certainly appropriate that the Wall Street Journal (WSJ), the mouthpiece of capitalist ideology, should publish an expose on “a new global market for off-the-shelf surveillance [...]
What Did Joe Paterno Know & When Did He Know It? (Part I)
PART ONE: THE MID-1970s THROUGH 1998 As a Penn State alumnus, I have four personal priorities concerning the Jerry Sandusky scandal. First, I want to do my part to assure [...]
An 11/11 Masterpiece Cries Out for Peace
**BNW SPECIAL: 11/11/11** As the numerologists note our arrival at 11/11/11, our attention is better focused on this day as the anniversary of the end of the useless, worthless, horrifying [...]
