Bangkok is infamously mired in lurid CONTRADICTION, but it's also a city of subtle and distorted MOODS that journalism and FILM have hitherto mostly failed to capture.
Read MoreEven if the CONSTITUTION of the UNITED STATES had intended to recognize slavery, as a constitutional state institution, such intended recognition would have failed of effect, and been legally void, because slavery then had no constitutional existence to be RECOGNIZED.
Read MoreNever underestimate the ability of political LEADERS to misread HISTORY on a MONUMENTAL scale. The invasions of IRAQ and Afghanistan have both served to hasten WESTERN decline: they have both failed to achieve their objectives and in the process demonstrated an underlying western impotence.
Read MoreI almost failed out of high SCHOOL. I nearly gave in to the deep ANGER and RESENTMENT harbored by everyone around me... Whatever TALENTS I have, I almost squandered until a handful of loving people rescued me.
Read MoreIn EARLY CHURCH polemics, Jews are deemed no longer worthy of their own SCRIPTURES because they have failed to accept CHRIST as the Messiah.
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