Monthly Archives: January 2012

George Carlin on the 10 Commandments

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January 30, 2012
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I have a problem with the Ten Commandments. Here it is: Why are there ten? We don’t need that many. I think the list of commandments was deliberately and artificially inflated to get it up to ten. It’s clearly a padded list. Here’s how it happened: About five thousand years ago, a bunch of reli­gious...
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Customers care more about a new iPhone than working conditions in China

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January 26, 2012
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While Apple CEO Tim Cook takes home more than $350 million in compensation employees of factories in China who provide Apple with its products live in cramped dorms and work in hazardous conditions.
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The old law of an eye for an eye leaves everybody blind

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January 16, 2012
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Violence as a way of achieving racial justice is both impractical and immoral. It is impractical because it is a descending spiral ending in destruction for all. The old law of an eye for an eye leaves everybody blind. It is immoral because it seeks to humiliate the opponent rather than win his understanding; it seeks...
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