All Entries Tagged With: "Democracy"
Putin’s Pussy Problem: From America with Love
On Friday, August 17, three female members of the band, Pussy Riot, were sentenced to two years in prison for staging a piece of political theater. In February, 2012, The Pussy Rioteers had–if you will pardon the expression–the balls to perform a song containing an anti-Vladimir Putin message (see the entire lyric below) at the [...]
Timothy McGettigan | Oct 20, 2012 | Comments 0
Why it is Impossible to be “A Good Person”
Morality – Has it ever occurred to you how difficult it is to be a good person? In fact it seems that even the best people amongst us, cannot be good all the time – how many times have we not heard of priests, ministers, politicians or soccer moms, whom everyone around them, saw as [...]
Anna Brix Thomsen | Jan 16, 2011 | Comments 5
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