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In addition, the medications for "treating" Alzheimer's dementia, merely slow down the progression, something I consider the very height of cruelty.

You're a millennial, right? For you, the dividing line on ancient history is Y2K?

Well, I have I got the cure for you (for a whole $2):

Hardcore History: Prophets of Doom — April 2013

Murderous millennial preachers and prophets take over the German city of Munster after Martin Luther unleashes a Pandoraâ(TM)s Box of religious anarchy with the Protestant Reformation.

And if that doesn't cure you, scaphism certainly will.

I am a big fan of audio drama, which means that the podcasting format is great for my kind of entertainment.

Here are my audio drama podcasts:

• Ars Paradoxica
• Edict Zero: FIS
• Hadron Gospel Hour
• Our Fair City
• The Centauri Express (the podcast of the Atlanta Radio Theatre Company)
• The Bright Sessions
• Radio Drama Revival

I also listen to Dan Carlin's podcasts (Common Sense and Hardcore History) for a pretty balanced view on history and politics.

Also, as I'm studying and training to do voice work, I also subscribe to a number of voice-over feeds.

• Voice Acting Mastery
• Voice Over Cafe
• Voice Over Marketing Podcast
• Voice Over Weekly Podcast

In addition to the general voice-over stuff, I find that podcasts about podcasting (meta, anyone?) are also useful sources of knowledge.

• The Cliff Ravenscraft Show (originally called "The Podcast Answer Man)
• The School of Podcasting
• The Podcasters Studio
• The Audacity to Podcast

I know there's a lot here, so I hope you find something of interest.

I am a big fan of audio drama, which means that the podcasting format is great for my kind of entertainment.

Here are my audio drama podcasts:

• Ars Paradoxica
• Edict Zero: FIS
• Hadron Gospel Hour
• Our Fair City
• The Centauri Express (the podcast of the Atlanta Radio Theatre Company)
• The Bright Sessions
• Radio Drama Revival

I also listen to Dan Carlin's podcasts (Common Sense and Hardcore History) for a pretty balanced view on history and politics.

Also, as I'm studying and training to do voice work, I also subscribe to a number of voice-over feeds.

• Voice Acting Mastery
• Voice Over Cafe
• Voice Over Marketing Podcast
• Voice Over Weekly Podcast

In addition to the general voice-over stuff, I find that podcasts about podcasting (meta, anyone?) are also useful sources of knowledge.

• The Cliff Ravenscraft Show (originally called "The Podcast Answer Man)
• The School of Podcasting
• The Podcasters Studio
• The Audacity to Podcast

I know there's a lot here, so I hope you find something of interest.

Was going to suggest him, so I'll second the above and add the url.

http://www.dancarlin.com/

Any legislator who accepts such money deserves 20 years in federal prison...and not a "gentleman's club", either.

You do know where deterrence porn goes, don't you? Missing hands. Honour killing of single mothers ... by their own families. And the political transparency index just zooms right up.

This from one of the greatest civilizations the world has ever known, where once upon a the Western Europeans weren't worthy to lick their curly shoes (on the web are more associated with Pakistan, but that could have something to do with Arab culture raising "shoe fetish" almost to the top of the state's checklist of people to watch closely).

Lost Enlightenment: Central Asia's Golden Age from the Arab Conquest to Tamerlane

The Europeans were no slouch in the deterrence department, either. Here's a hot, glowing pinnacle of deterrence that settled accounts a long year after the horse had already left the barn.

Münster Rebellion

And yet, it's not the last crime ever recorded. What does it take, a nuclear bomb?

I'm presently reading Tyler Cowen's Average is Over. This is about how the machines are presently driving a wedge through the middle class. It's a sobering—rather than alarmist—perspective on what comes next (sorry, no Armageddon porn for the tin hats).

One current is that the machines are poised to begin gnawing away at the tedious underbelly of routine law. The downsides are easier to enumerate, not having been there. The upside—which is hard to envision in precise terms—is that old bastion of the workings of law as privileged knowledge will finally experience a scary, erosive Borg-like incursion.

This I think will have more long term effect that throwing a bunch of lawyers into a stone box, where they become subject to psychopathic depredations of their person while justice-loving members of greater society snuggle into their beds to dream happy dreams.

That said, if there's so much as a pebble of deterrence we've left unturned, the executives of Network Solutions should be high on the list. Their behaviour leaves you wanting to believe in deterrence soooo badly.

Hmm,
I think a few things are or will be changing. Now as an amateur democracy activist I think more things would change if U.S. citizens had more political power. Or at least were aware of how little political power they have compared to most other democracies.

By the way - Missing the former certainty of the filibuster "comrade." The fact that the filibuster could be eliminated with a majority vote was leaked!

Jack (I_Voter)

Some relatively unknown and hopefully interesting things about the U.S. political system.
http://www.dancarlin.com/phpbb3/viewtopic.php?f=13&t=31156:

Jury Nullification In New Hampshire Becomes Reality
http://www.policymic.com/articles/10603/jury-nullification-in-new-hampshire-becomes-reality:

Dan Carlin does a great podcast on this subject http://dancarlin.com/disp.php/csarchive episode 232

I recently listened to the excellent History of Rome podcast

Was it Hard Core History by chance? If not, you'd probably like his work:
http://www.dancarlin.com/disp.php/hharchive

There's a 6 part series about Rome still up free and the 5 part series on Genghis Khan is great.

Also if it was not HCH, please provide a link. I'm always in the market for excellent history podcasts.

did a great job covering the same topic earlier this month on his Common Sense podcast, including the Daniel Ellsberg angle. His Hardcore History podcast is also amazing for any history fans out there.

did a great job covering the same topic earlier this month on his Common Sense podcast, including the Daniel Ellsberg angle. His Hardcore History podcast is also amazing for any history fans out there.

Sorry, but soldiers need to understand that if government told them to shoot a child in the back of the head, they're supposed to do that.

No. They're supposed to disobey an unlawful order.

You think the guy that dropped the bomb on Hiroshima didn't know they were targeting kids? And yet he was completely fine with it.

Much can be said (and has been said) about the motives and morality of that particular event. Nonetheless, the guy who dropped the bomb knew that there was some moral difference between an intended target (the city) and collateral damage (kids).

This has nothing to do with recent development. Remember that a few decades ago, it was perfectly fine to hit children with wooden rulers, sticks, belts, whatever was at hand. Not punishing children was but a temporary fad.
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Just like any animal the old have to ensure their dominance lest they become obsolete.

You know, it's an interesting point you raise. Historically, parents have been far harsher with their children than they do today. In some ways, our treatment of children as precious is far in contrast to the days when children were passed off to hired help or put to work as laborers. Children were in many ways treated as the enemy.

Dan Carlin's podcast "Hardcore History" took a review of this in its December 9th episode. I highly recommend it.

Because people have beat their children and practiced infanticide since the beginning of humanity that means we should accept it as human nature and not interfere?

If you like history this guy has an interesting take on it.

But why would you build a backhoe when you already have a gang of 40 slaves that you can work to the death and replace quickly and cheaply? Why would you build a steam engine to move goods around long distances when slaves would do the same! There is a good deal of ancient literature that refers to slaves as tools and gangs of slaves as machines. dan carlin does a good job of distilling this down in his hardcore history episode addicted to bondage. Maybe give it a listen?

You might find this podcast interesting. Seems the intent of the 2nd amendment was to discourage america from having a large standing army that sapped resources and wagged the dog. If everyone has guns and there is an effective nationwide draft in the form of a militia, then the population of the US would be far more resistant to going to war. The founding fathers apparently recognised the downfall of every large civilisation was imperialism and wanted to build in a resistance to it. The world wars seem to have destroyed that mechanism though.