Philosophy
Today, Fidel Castro announced his retirement. After fifty years leading Cuba, he says that he no longer has the mobility and drive needed to continue the revolution and while this is not his farewell, he has decided to retire.
So, the obvious question is what do you do if you are a retired communist autocrat? Stepping down doesn't mean slowing down. I think we ought to give the man a few suggestions to help him enjoy and enrich his golden years, or, whatever more proletarian metal would be more appropriate to use there:
Bourgeois bingo using little markers with Karl Marx's face to try to be the first to cover a big dollar sign.
Take up cooking. Bay of Pigs pork chops with a Lenin-lime glaze.
How about hosting a tv game show, "Name that Assassination Attempt"?
Fronting a public health initiative design to help men avoid prostate cancer using the tagline, "Help stop the Cuban Pissile Crisis."
Other suggestions?
- Happy National Pig Day
Today is the day set aside to honor our porcine pals. We have a curiously mixed relationship with the pig. On the one hand, the pig is an incredibly intelligent and strong animal, yet to be compared to it is almost always a sign of condemnation. You will...
- Imperfect Evidence And Information For The Public
Dr. Richard Ablin, the medical researcher who discovered the prostate specific antigen in 1970, wrote an op/ed in The New York Times a couple weeks ago in which he argues that we are wating a tremendous amount of money on PSA tests for men. There is a...
- Does A Painter Paint?
Guest-post from C.Ewing today: Assuming that we use the simple "a painter is one who paints" definition, which seems passably insufficient, we have to also understand (in order to both comprehend and utilize the term properly) what it means to be "one...
- Merv Griffin And Prostate Cancer
Sad news today. Merv Griffin died yesterday of prostate cancer. Originally diagnosed in 1996 and treated, the cancer came back and claimed the life of the famed talk show host and brain behind Jeopardy among many other great game shows. Prostate cancer...
- Hugo Chavez...as Many Do, Misconstrues "uberman"
"Coping with cancer, Chavez contemplates Nietzsche" by Ian James July 23rd, 2011 Associated Press While he undergoes cancer treatment, Hugo Chavez has been finding inspiration rereading a 19th century philosophy book by Friedrich Nietzsche about a...
Philosophy
Castro Retires
Today, Fidel Castro announced his retirement. After fifty years leading Cuba, he says that he no longer has the mobility and drive needed to continue the revolution and while this is not his farewell, he has decided to retire.
So, the obvious question is what do you do if you are a retired communist autocrat? Stepping down doesn't mean slowing down. I think we ought to give the man a few suggestions to help him enjoy and enrich his golden years, or, whatever more proletarian metal would be more appropriate to use there:
Bourgeois bingo using little markers with Karl Marx's face to try to be the first to cover a big dollar sign.
Take up cooking. Bay of Pigs pork chops with a Lenin-lime glaze.
How about hosting a tv game show, "Name that Assassination Attempt"?
Fronting a public health initiative design to help men avoid prostate cancer using the tagline, "Help stop the Cuban Pissile Crisis."
Other suggestions?
- Happy National Pig Day
Today is the day set aside to honor our porcine pals. We have a curiously mixed relationship with the pig. On the one hand, the pig is an incredibly intelligent and strong animal, yet to be compared to it is almost always a sign of condemnation. You will...
- Imperfect Evidence And Information For The Public
Dr. Richard Ablin, the medical researcher who discovered the prostate specific antigen in 1970, wrote an op/ed in The New York Times a couple weeks ago in which he argues that we are wating a tremendous amount of money on PSA tests for men. There is a...
- Does A Painter Paint?
Guest-post from C.Ewing today: Assuming that we use the simple "a painter is one who paints" definition, which seems passably insufficient, we have to also understand (in order to both comprehend and utilize the term properly) what it means to be "one...
- Merv Griffin And Prostate Cancer
Sad news today. Merv Griffin died yesterday of prostate cancer. Originally diagnosed in 1996 and treated, the cancer came back and claimed the life of the famed talk show host and brain behind Jeopardy among many other great game shows. Prostate cancer...
- Hugo Chavez...as Many Do, Misconstrues "uberman"
"Coping with cancer, Chavez contemplates Nietzsche" by Ian James July 23rd, 2011 Associated Press While he undergoes cancer treatment, Hugo Chavez has been finding inspiration rereading a 19th century philosophy book by Friedrich Nietzsche about a...