FREELOADER, n. A man or woman unable to find work, eking out a miserable existence on food stamps and, if exceptionally fortunate, unemployment insurance and friends with couches. Not to be confused with those who earned their idleness through wise choice of parents. * * * –from the revised and expanded edition of The American Heretic’s Dictionary, the […]
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Definition of the Day — Freeloader
Posted: January 24, 2015 in Capitalism, Humor, Livin' in the USATags: Ambrose Bierce, American Heretic's Dictionary, Devil's Dictionary, Food stamps, SNAP, unemployment
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The Four Thousand, The Eight Hundred, by Greg Egan
Posted: November 20, 2016 in Book Reviews, Politics, Science FictionTags: Australia, Bigotry, Dehumanization, Demagoguery, Emigration, Ethnic cleansing, Greg Egan, Immigration, Scapegoating, United States
The Four Thousand, The Eight Hundred, by Greg Egan (Subterranean Press, 2016, 88 pp., $40 library edition, $2.99 e-book) reviewed by Zeke Teflon Australian sci-fi author Greg Egan has produced a novella that seems eerily relevant to the present-day political situation in the United States, with the rise of Donald Trump and the racist right, […]
Best Blog posts 2015 (Humor)
Posted: March 18, 2016 in Humor, ReligionTags: Baseball, Eric Wong, Homeopathy, Lee Elia, Mick Berry, Pascal's Wager, Solipsism, Stand-up comics, Yogi Berra
We started this blog in July 2013. Since then, we’ve been posting almost daily. When considering the popularity of the posts, one thing stands out: in all but a few cases, popularity declines over time. As well, the readership of this blog has expanded gradually over time, so most readers have never seen what we consider […]
Religion and Taxes: Freeloading at Its Finest
Posted: February 6, 2015 in Livin' in the USA, ReligionTags: Property Taxes, Tax Breaks, Taxation
(Excerpted from Chapter 7 of Culture Wars: The Threat to Your Family and Your Freedom, by Marie Alena Castle) “When a religion is good, I conceive it will support itself; and when it does not support itself, and God does not care to support it—so that its professors are obliged to call for help of […]
