Cheers from Bavaria

The following article is NOT from a fascist hate site. It comes from a prominent member of the governing Fidesz party. Apart from being the most arrogant columnist of the "mainstream" right-wing press, he's a regular speaker at pro-government rallies attended by tens of thousands. (Hundreds of thousands according to the government!) I tried to reproduce the author's boorish and tasteless writing style.

Source: http://www.magyarhirlap.hu/ki-ne-legyen

Among these two citations[1] lies the gypsy question of Hungary.
The year 2013 has set off with a new Cozma case[2]. The only difference is that the victims were not internationally recognized top players but "just" in the youth league. Who got stabbed by the cowardly, disgusting and harmful animals.
This phrase above will be the motive for the fake outrage. Which is much simpler, rewarding and turns much more profit in this polcorrect [sic] world than facing the facts.

Atlas shrugging

So Gerard Depardieu is gone. What a sordid moment for the people of France! Because he was so offended by the prime minister calling him pathetic after he's been working since the age of 15, hell yeah! Nothing to do with earthly issues like money, God forbid, nothing at all! And man, he was raised by his father to be a global citizen, now wasn't he? Come on! Ain't that just fucking cool? Vives les self-made citoyens globales!

Sure as hell this all is none but a super evil left-wing conspiracy of those pinkos runnig the French media and trying to destroy him for the crime of supporting Sarkozy. Yeah man, as if that commie French media were not airing his simple position of reactionary individualism every day and every night! Or maybe I'm wrong? Do they leave a few fleeting moments for the wicked communist propaganda that after France made him world famous and insanely rich producing and marketing and buying his movies, it might be a nice and decent thing to shut the fuck up and pay the tax? My goodness, those cheese-eating surrender monkeys are so full of envy!

God bless

Amúgy most éppen megint hánynom kell az Egyesült Államoktól. Mert hát van ugyebár ez a 2nd amendment, ami sokak szerint azt mondja, hogy mindenkinek lehessen fegyvere...

"A well regulated militia being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed."

Ezt a szöveget még akkor írták, amikor az országnak még nem volt saját hadserege, hanem miliciák voltak az egyes államokban, tehát ezt próbálták valahogy kodifikálni. A mondatban elvileg nincs benne, hogy minden egyes polgárnak legyen fegyvere, de ez igazából teljesen lényegtelen. A szesztilalom is bele lett amendálva az alkotmányba, aztán most mégis lehet Utah államon kívül bárhol piát kapni...

Demand

Imagine there's no heaven
You don't even have to try
And hell is not down below us
Ain't nothing new under the sky
Imagine all the people
Finding out today...

Imagine there's no countries
Soon there won't be anyway
Nothing left to kill or die for
And no religion to hold a sway
Imagine all the people
Six feet down in peace...

I may say you're a dreamer
You dream this system can live on
I hope someday you will wake up
Or the world is gone

Imagine no more options
I'm pretty sure you can
The only chance to see tomorrow
A brotherhood of man
Imagine all the people
Having to share the world...

I may say you're a dreamer
Sure you're not the only one
I hope someday you all wake up
Or the world is gone

Green is not the new Red

This just in: the congress of the green party LMP has decided to slam the door on this new anti-Orban alliance called 'Together 2014', which is made up of three practically non-existent organizations and a technocratic millionaire who appears to be charismatic because of our well-known politicians being either assholes or retards or both. As you may already know, these organizations are the liberal outfit of dynamic yuppie go-getters called Million For Press Freedom or just Milla, the more or less official action network and political meme of the more or less affiliated trade unionists called Szolidaritás, and the businessman's own thin-tank which may very well have more than 3 people among its ranks. The name of the guy is Gordon Bajnai, pronounced 'buy-nuy'. He used to be prime minister for one year and he did some austerity which was not cool, but the capitalists seemed to like it.

This decision of LMP was welcomed with a great deal of support by the hard left, and you may be surprised to hear me disapprove it, but that's what I actually do. And I have quite a few good reasons to do so. It's not that I am "gravitating to the right" when the situation develops like some of my late activist friends would suggest, no! I'm not gravitating anywhere! As a matter of fact, I am much more extreme than most of the hippies and ragtag activists who make up the alternative left-wing scene, so this is really not the point here...

The faith factor

Good news: Kyrsten Sinema is the first representative having openly declared herself 'not religious' in the history of the US Congress! Even though one in 535 is more than a hundred times smaller than one in 5, which is the actual proportion of non-believers in the USA, it is sure as hell better than zero. Plus, apart from being smart enough to make this move, she also looks quite good!

Yeah dudes, Atheism is sexy!

I wonder if she's going to stay alone, like Bernie Sanders, representing a huge mass of American people, or will there be more swallows to come?

Oh, and I almost forgot the wonderful trivia: She calls herself... Guess what?

A "Prada Socialist"!!!

Now come on! Ain't that just wonderful?

This is how I'd like to see the new American Woman :)

BMI calculator in Haskell

bodymass :: Float -> Float -> String
bodymass weight_kg height_m
    | bmi < s = show bmi ++ " emo"
    | bmi < m = show bmi ++ " normal"
    | bmi < l = show bmi ++ " fat"
    | otherwise  = show bmi ++ " lard-ass"
    where bmi = weight_kg / height^2
          (s,m,l) = (18.5,25.0,30.0) -- Pattern!
          height = if height_m>100 
                   then height_m/100  
                   else height_m

How to be a xenophobe

Hungary is the land of incredibly selfish and narrow-minded overlords fighting each other with armies of incredibly arrogant and self-deceiving bootlickers for the ownership of an incredibly dispossessed and humiliated folk.

Germany is the land of enlightened moralistic conservatives and their legions of well-treated serfs working diligently and patiently for national grandeur.

France is the land of everlasting Thermidor where both progress and decline are caused by a fathomless amount of snobbish nationalism.

Britain is the land of bitter misanthropic cynicism and cold tendentious brutality.

America is the land of infantile individualism.

Japan is the land of infantile collectivism.

Violence

There's no canonical definition of the word 'violence'. Most people only consider physical force attacking a human or animal being, and its verbal form 'violate' implies that the actor is taking the initiative. On the other hand, violation of some stupid law or privilege is hardly considered violence by anyone.

The Golden Rule says you must treat others like you want others to treat you. If you don't treat them so, you are being violent. (What if I'm a masochist?) However, the old testament says you must do this to your neighbour and not your enemy. This matters: the neighbour is an unknown neutral fellow citizen, not your mother-in-law. The love of your enemy was introduced by Jesus and his contemporaries: they were referring to the more or less average citizens of belligerent nations who really don't have much to do with the whole situation or they really don't know what they're doing. All this is common sense for the enlightened man of today. Back then it was not, but today it is. Today we need new wisdom in order to cope with our new problems, but the people often seem unwilling or unprepared to accept new stuff, so we try to play around with the old stuff instead, which is really quite uncool.

The better of two evils pt 2

Mea Maxima Culpa!

Habár nem hiszem, hogy túl mélyen megbántott a hülyeségem, de ha esetleg mégis, akkor tényleg sorry! Meg természetesen a személyeskedő megjegyzésekért szintén. Tehát ez a gondolat, amit kifejtettem, hogy muszály Gyurcsánnyal összefogni, mert őt sokan szeretik, ez már akkor is nyílvánvaló faszság volt, amikor kifejtettem. Mert egyrészt nem szeretik sokan, másrészt akik szeretik, azok úgyis szavaznának bárki másra is. Habár a gyurcsányista az sajnos olyan, mint maga a gyurcsány, hogy képes nagyon sokat ártani a megsértődéseivel meg az állandó pattogásával, tehát vigyázni kell velük. Némelyikük ráadásul befolyásos ember. Elmebeteg paranoiás köcsög vállalkozók és menedzserek között például elég sok van.

The zebra puzzle

[Note: In my version, there's a fish...]

There are five people of different nationalities living in five houses of different colours, drinking five different things, smoking five different cigars and keeping five different pets.

Nations: Brit, Dane, German, Norwegian, Swede
Houses: Blue, Green, Red, White, Yellow
Drinks: Beer, Coffee, Milk, Tea, Water
Cigars: Blue Master, Dunhill, Pall Mall, Prince, Blend (X)
Pets: Cat, Bird, Dog, Fish, Horse

These things we know:

1. The British person lives in the red house.
2. The Swede keeps dogs as pets.
3. The Dane drinks tea.
4. The green house is on the left of the white house.
5. The green homeowner drinks coffee.
6. The man who smokes Pall Mall keeps birds.
7. The owner of the yellow house smokes Dunhill.
8. The man living in the center house drinks milk.
9. The Norwegian lives in the first house.
10. The man who smokes Blend lives next to the one who keeps cats.
11. The man who keeps the horse lives next to the man who smokes Dunhill.
12. The man who smokes Bluemaster drinks beer.
13. The German smokes Prince.
14. The Norwegian lives next to the blue house.
15. The man who smokes Blend has a neighbor who drinks water.

Question: who owns the fish?

The better of two evils

"Nem érzem magamhoz közelebb Bajnait, mint Orbánt."

Ezt a mondatot nem én írtam, tehát nem tudok szó szerint egyetérteni a kijelentéssel, de mégis megvédem azt, aki igen.

Miért?

Mielőtt belevágnék a sűrűjébe, legalább annyit muszály elismernem Bajnairól, hogy a progresszív adórendszert valószínűleg azonnal visszavezetné, és ez jó lenne! Habár 2010 előtt konkrétan azt akarta, hogy évi 16 millióig tartson a legalsó adósáv, ami azért elég lájtosan progresszív. Ettől függetlenül, tehát ezen kívül még vannak megfontolandó érvek Bajnai mellett: a "demokratikus ellenzék" berkeiben jelenleg ő az egyetlen személy, aki az egyszerre nagyon reakciós és nagyon piacpárti magyar választóközönséget per pillanat meg tudja nyerni, meg emberileg speciel énhozzám is sokkal közelebb áll, mint Orbán...

Na, de most akkor jöjjön a sűrűje! Én ugyanis nagyon nem értem, milyen alapon várja el bárki is egy (leendő) radikális baloldali párttól, vagy akár az LMP-től, hogy belépjen egy ilyen ultra-neoliberális "national salvation" koalícióba? Nem értem, miért nem képesek egyesek fölfogni, hogy a baloldalt sokak (és egyre többek) szemében nem Tony Blair neve fémjelzi? Az egy dolog, hogy összefogunk Orbán leváltása érdekében, de hát mi jöjjön azután?

Na, jó! Igazából a Bajnai-fanokat is meg kell érteni! A helyzet súlyosságára való tekintettel valóban nincs jogunk elzárkózni ettől az embertől, amíg nem ütköztettük vele az álláspontunkat. A baloldalnak tehát konkrét követeléseket kéne megfogalmaznia az összefogásért cserébe. Ezekre aztán a liberálisok természetesen azonnal elkezdenének fröcsögni, hogy mennyire irreálisak és felelőtlenek, meg valószínűleg Bajnai sem fogadná el őket. Nos, ez lenne az a szent pillanat, amikor azt mondhatnánk, hogy részünkről a fáklyásmenet.

Az LMP-ről viszont lehet tudni, hogy kapcsolatban áll Bajnaival, tehát valószínűleg megvitatták vele ezeket a dolgokat, mielőtt nemet mondtak volna az összefogásra. (De lehet, hogy rosszul sejtem.)

Én viszont azt állítom, hogy ezeket a dolgokat nyílvánosan kéne megvitatni...

Lelki terror

Mi történik, ha a gyermek először szembesül a homoszexualitással?
Nézzünk meg egy képzelt párbeszédet erről:

Gyermek: "Józsi és Feri amúgy miért vannak folyton együtt?"

Feslett erkölcsű agymosott liberálbolsevik anyuka:
"Hát azért, mert szeretik egymást! Ugyanúgy, mint apád és én."

Gyermek:
"Tényleg? Férfiak is szerethetik egymást úgy, mint apu és te?"

FEALbA: "Hát persze!"

Gyermek: "Hmm. Érdekes... Kaphatok még egy kis müzlit?"

A fenti párbeszédből nagyon érzékeltesen látszik, micsoda megrázkódtatást okoz a gyermek törékeny kis lelkében a homoszexualitás ilyen jellegű megismerése. Lelki gyötrelmeit pusztán azért titkolja, mert elfajult és elkorcsosult liberális kultúránk erre rákényszeríti! Persze, valóban az imént kérdezett rá, hogy mi is az, aminek eltűrésére tulajdonképpen rá van kényszerítve, de... öö... Na, mindegy! A lényeg az, hogy teljesen össze van omolva! Ez a gyerek soha többé nem lehet boldog!

The plan

• First we come for fascists who imminently threaten to destroy democracy and force us into abject serfdom.
• Next we come for libertarians, the relentless priests of economic dogmatism who brought us the emergence of fascism in the first place.
• Next we come for conservatives and break down the rule of their misanthropic false morality which is rotten to the core.
• Next we come for social democrats before they backstab the revolution and go to bed with the capitalist vampires.
• Next we come for pimps, racketeers and gangsters able to evade the hand of justice in a bourgeois state which was much more preoccupied with oppressing and disposessing us.
• Next we come for bureaucrats and politicians trying to become the new ruling class.
• Next we come for soldiers and policemen who refuse to leave their ranks and start doing productive work.
• Next we come for all the selfish middlemen standing between producers and consumers in a transitional economy.
• Next we come for you... Because you have to work for the welfare of your fellow citizens working for yours, homie! That's the plan. If you don't like it, you can just get the hell out of here...

The ability to listen

It looks like the right wing has two definitions of rape:

one for their anti-abortion agenda and another one for Mr Assange...

What both sides of the debate seem to forget very easily is that the accusations were made by the police and not the supposed victims! This is quite unusual, as you may guess, but actually it's the very same thing which happens to women having their rape allegations denied: Nobody is fuckin' listening to them!

So maybe it's time to figure out that the first thing to do when fighting rape is to

LISTEN TO THE WOMEN INVOLVED!!!

Here's an article written by those bloody feminists...

Bon mot

La guerre des classes existe, que ce vous plaise ou pas. La réproduction de l'ordre social dans le capitalisme est une guerre permanente menée contre le peuple.

Si la gouvernement petite est tellement mieux que la gouvernement grande, pourquoi ne sont pas les meilleurs gouvernements en Afrique?

Les liberaux peuvent tu donner un peu de liberté, les conservateurs peuvent tu donner un peu de gouvernement. Les socialistes, ils peuvent tu donner plus de tous les deux.

La theorie du complot la plus malfaisante* est en fait le résultat d'un complot.

(*celle des sages de sion)

La programmation fonctionnelle

Le paradigme

Dans la programmation impérative, on dit á l'ordinateur toutes les opérations á exécuter pas á pas.

Dans la programmation fonctionnelle, on définit des fonctions mathématiques.

Au lieu d'écrire la recette pas-á-pas, on definit mathématiquement les données que la machine doit retourner pour chaque ensemble d'entrées possibles.

La logique impérative peut être émulée par une pratique qui s'appelle pipelining (canalisation) - c'est á dire donner la sortie d'une fonction comme argument á la fonction suivante.

Le programme, c'est un fonction!

Tout le programme n'est qu'une grande fonction mathématique, composée de fonctions mineures (qui sont composées de fonctions plus mineures, et caetera...)

Not so lazy

In the Haskell programming language, lazy evaluation doesn't seem to be very lazy within list comprehensions. At least on my Ubuntu 12.4 system with its Haskell platform installed, it crashes after the following statement:

Prelude> [x*2 | x<-[0..], x<=5]

It shows the first five elements, but it doesn't return. I mean, it does after pushing Ctrl+C, but you may know that's the interrupt signal on Unix systems. It's not cool!

Electronic Supersonic

def blast(x):
  if x<=0: print "Offblast!"
  else:
    if x!=2: print x
    blast(x-1)

Invincible Children

[This issue is fortunately not relevant anymore, but I didn't finish the article in time...]

For those of you yet to figure out that Kony 2012 is a scam, I have one very important piece of news: Kony 2012 is a scam! Even if such eminent foreign policy experts like Angelina Jolie and Kim Kardashian say otherwise. Alas, they might not always be right!

This certainly is a very exciting moment of history! Our great culture of democracy has developed to the point when not knowing about an issue makes you smarter! Until this day, such a phenomenon was strictly limited to the world of reality television and Fox News. It feels absolutely rejoicing to seeinternational politics finally catching up.

So who the fuck is this guy called Joseph Kony?

Blümchen

#http://thinkpython.com/swampy

from swampy.TurtleWorld import *
import math

world = TurtleWorld()
bob = Turtle()
bob.delay = 0.005

def drawarc(t,r,a):
    for i in range(a):
        fd(t,2*r*math.pi/360)
        lt(t,1)

def drawpetal(t,r,a):
    drawarc(t,r,a)
    lt(t,180-a)
    drawarc(t,r,a)

def drawflower(t,l,n):
    rad = 2*math.pi/n
    r = l/(2*math.sin(rad/2))
   
    for i in range(n):
        drawpetal(t,r,360/n)
        lt(t,180)
    pu(t)
    fd(t,l)
    pd(t)
    lt(t)
    drawarc(t,l,360)
   
def drawflower2(t,l,n):
    n=n/2
    t.delay=0.001
    rad = 2*math.pi/n
    r = l/(2*math.sin(rad/2))
   
    for i in range(2*n):
        drawpetal(t,r,360/n)
        lt(t,180-360/(2*n))
    pu(t)
    fd(t,l)
    pd(t)
    lt(t)
    drawarc(t,l,360)

drawflower2(bob,150,8)

wait_for_user()

Compo1

Il n'y a pas d'alternative. C'est ce que l'establishment ne cesse de nous dire, et ils ont si bien raison! Il n'y a pas d'alternative parce qu'ils ne veulent pas nous donner aucun d'alternative. Ils ont tout le pouvoir et ils veulent que nous le considerions comme l'ordre de la nature, totalement impossible de changer. Ils veulent nous faire croire que tout qui se passent sont notres fautes, que nous meritons tous les malfaisances de leur léviathan. C'est comme ils veulent que nous interpretions la christianisme aussi: nous les peuples sommes totalement malfaisantes, alors nous méritons tout le malfaisance. Leur malfaisance.

Notre liberté signifie que nous sommes libres á condition que nous faisons le bon choix. Si ce n'est pas le cas, le choix mauvais est consideré comme une erreur qui doit être corrigée. On nous présente la même décision de nouveau jusqu'au fois quand nous choisissons qu'il faut choisir. Sinon, si nous nous comportons comme des gens libres, ils mettent en place leurs appareils pour nous punir brutalement et sans pitie. C'est qui se passe dans la Gréce. On nous présente la Gréce comme example pour nous dissuader: l'état en deliquescence.

Nos dirigeantes sont pourris jusqu'á la moelle. Le monde tel que nous le connaissons, il est mort. Tout le mond, tout la systéme, ils sont mortes. L'idéologie du capitalisme - la liberalisme, la conservativisme, l'eglise, et cetera, il n'importe quel - est les cult de la morte le plus obscéne et plus dépravé dans l'histoire de l'humanité.

Il n'y a pas d'alternative que la mort absolute. La seule alternative de cette mort absolute est la négation complet de cette systéme: la lutte des classes. Alors, la vie est la lutte des classes et la lutte des classes est la vie. Touts les autres choses, il ne sont que la mort d'animation. Tout les gens qui ne participe dans cette lutte, ils sont déjá morts. Ils sont des morts vivants.

Data types and Platonism

The handling of data types is a feature of high level programming languages! Each piece of data is handled by the computer according to its type. There are different operations for all the different data types. Operations like addition or multiplication are applied on each different type in a different way.

But the computer itself does not group data into types! It's just a device which manipulates binary signals very fast. It's the software responsible for compiling or interpreting your program which translates a line of code into an appropriate sequence of machine instructions, and this compilation or interpretation is done according to the types of the pieces of data involved.

The miners of Asturias

As you may already know, the coal miners of Asturias are at large. You might have seen them firing their home-made rocket launchers behind their vast barricades and you might have figured out they are very angry...

Why are they so angry? According to the media the strife is going on about some kind of industrial subsidies and other shit. Business as usual, you might say. But before dismissing them as such, let's take a look at history...

Rape analogy

- Biztos úr! Szeretnék feljelentést tenni, mert kiraboltak!

- Igen? Kirabolták, mi? Na, lássuk csak, mikor és hol?

- Hát úgy nagyjából fél órával ezelőtt a Práter utcáról befordultam a Szigony utcába, tudja, a Klinikák felé, és akkor megjelent egy kapucnis figura pisztollyal! Azt mondta, hogy adjam oda az összes pénzemet!

- Na, és maga meg odaadta, mi?

- Hát persze, hogy odaadtam, hiszen pisztoly volt nála!

- Tehát együttműködött ezzel az emberrel. Nem kiáltott segítségért és nem is próbált elmenekülni...

- Mondom, hogy pisztoly volt nála!

- Na, ne kiabáljon, kisapám, mert mindjárt bedobom egy cellába, aszt nézhet!

- Bocsánat! Elnézést kérek, hogy...

- Hát mondhatom, szépen vagyunk! Odaadja az összes pénzét egy idegennek, aztán jön itt nekem óbégatni! Mégis mit képzel magáról, hol van? Talán azt hiszi, ez itt a Máltai Szeretetszolgálat?

- Már bocsánat, de én...

- Már bocsánat, de maga nagyon hülyének néz engem! Na, ide figyeljen! Én úgy tudom, maga nagyon karitatív ember hírében áll. Jól tudom?

- Igen, szoktam adakozni, mert úgy gondolom... Na, de ez most hogy jön ide?

- Hát úgy jön ide, kisapám, hogy maga elegáns ruhában ment a Szigony utcába, ahol pedig mindenki tudja önről, hogy szeret adakozni, úton-útfélen mindenkinek odaadja a pénzét...

- Uram, ezt kikérem...

- NE VÁGJON A SZAVAMBA! Ha még egyszer félbeszakít, én komolyan mondom, lesittelem magát! Na! Szóval megy a Szigony utcában, ahol ugyebár közismert adakozóként odaadja az összes pénzét egy idegennek, mint ahogy azt szokta! Aztán egy fél óra múlva hirtelen meggondolja magát és jön nekem ide hisztizni! Ismerje csak be, hogy ez történt, és ne próbáljon engem itt hülyíteni! Mégis mit képzel magáról?

- Ne haragudjon, uram, de ez már tényleg felháborító!

- Nos, kedves uram, ez itt nem más, mint a nemi erőszak analógiája! Ez történik ugyanis a legtöbb megerőszakolt nővel, amikor megpróbálják az elkövetőket bíróság elé állítani. És ez bizony ám, ahogy mondja, tényleg felháborító!

- Hát akkor valami nagyon nem stimmel ebben a rendszerben...
- Úgy bizony!

Give Greece a chance

Zizek speech in favour of Syriza...

Late in his life, Sigmund Freud asked the famous question "Was will das Weib?" - What does a woman want? - admitting his perplexity when faced with the enigma of feminine sexuality. A similar perplexity arouses today: What does Europe want? This is the question you the Greek people are adressing Europe. Because you know what you want! You want this guy as a prime minister! Europe doesn't know what it wants! The way European states and the media relate to what is going on in Greece is the best indicator of what kind of Europe they want: is it the neoliberal Europe, is it the Europe of isolationist nation states, or maybe something different?

Wickedness of the heavens

I can hear your minds craving for a proper dosage of Zizek. I'm your man to watch out for your libidinal frustrations of this kind, so here we go!

Ladies and gentlemen, Slavoj Zizek!

***

So where is ideology? When we are dealing with a problem which is undoubtedly real, the ideological designation introduces its invisible mystification. For example, tolerance designates a real problem. When I criticize it, I am routinely asked: "But how can you be in favour of intolerance towards foreigners, of misogyny, of homophobia?"

Therein resides the catch! Of course I am not against tolerance per se. What I oppose is the perception of racism as a problem of intolerance. Why are so many problems today perceived as problems of intolerance rather than problems of inequality, exploitation or injustice? Why is the proposed remedy tolerance, rather than emancipation, political struggle or even armed struggle? The source of this culturalization is defeat: the failure of directly political solutions such as social democracy. Tolerance has become the post-political ersatz.

***

How not to hate the rich

I said there are pitfalls in hating the rich, but I didn't talk much about them. Shame on me! I'm not the kind of person anyone cares to debate with, so now I will pretend to be my own ideological opponent...

First of all, Jesus was probably not an evil man. He was not a living God, not born of a virgin mother, didn't have twelve disciples (maybe more or less), didn't rise up from the dead, the pope is not his representative on Earth, et cetera. This stuff was made up by people who knew about the prevailing religious superstitions of neighboring Egypt. That place was full of Jews even after the Exodus (I guess they thought it was mission failed), including a famous classical philosopher called Philo. It is of course disturbing that none of them cared to say "Come on guys, that was Horus!", or maybe it's just that nobody listened to them, but that's quite a different story. It doesn't change the fact that Jesus was cool. He said quite a lot of great things which Horus seemed to forget.

How to hate the rich

Of course there are some pitfalls in hating the rich. First of all, like I already said, hate is not a good thing in itself! Moreover, self-serving and self-generating hate is definitely bad. If you don't have valid reasons to feel anger, you must not hate anything!

But this doesn't mean that you cannot hate the rich. You can. Actually, you have to!

As a matter of fact, even rich people must start hating their peers if they want humanity to survive on the long run. If you find out the true reason why there is frustration and anguish in the hearts of the working class and feel with them in a truly empathic way, you will definitely start hating the rich for good. If you don't start hating them with all your passion, that means you do not really understand the living conditions of the working class. Never mind. Keep trying!

The triumph of Freedom

Yesterday's referendum in Ireland was a triumph of freedom!

Sounds lovely, doesn't it? Well, this is actually the case! In the splendid world of Capitalism, freedom means that you are free to choose as long as you make the right choice. If you don't make the right choice, you can very quickly stop being free. That's a solid fact. I wonder how many Greeks did actually know the name of Lucas Papademos before he became prime minister...

Got the point? All right then, here comes the blissful part: The people of Ireland are not so foolhardy as the stupid Mediterranean bunch of lazy slackers down there at the Balkans! Here we've got some really wise and judicious people who - after being "isolationist" and "anti-european" in the past (Shame on them!!!) - have finally made up their minds and decided to choose the right! Here we've got one more nation we don't have to completely destroy in order to save them! Of course they will be destroyed anyway, but they will suffer with pride and happiness knowing that their freedom was preserved. Isn't that just wonderful?

Oh, come on!