Monday, February 07, 2005

Depopulation Crisis?

The old bleeding the young dry…

Stanley Kurtz has a piece up at Policy Review titled “Demographics and the Culture War.”  Kurtz’s piece considers the negative effects of aging populations and declining birthrates, both of which seem to be occuring globally, in regards to maintaining the welfare state.  Kurtz’s review of this issue, spurred by the reading of four fairly recent books on the subject, is mostly centered on how the welfare state can continue under the onslaught of the two aforementioned effects, without actually casting a disapproving eye on the fact that the State has played a very major role in our alleged arrival at this juncture.

Though a bit of a long read, it’s worth looking at.

Via Arts & Letters Daily.

Posted by John Venlet on 02/07 at 07:55 PM
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Everything’s A Scandal, Now

Slinging mud from the ring…

When working under stressful conditions, like those serving in the military in Iraq or Afghanistan, there are times when you have to blow off a bit of steam.  How one goes about this is up to the individual.  It may be done by downing six (6) to twelve (12) beers, it may be done by vigorous exercise, or it may be done by reading or any other various individually chosen activity, as long as it isn’t mud wrestling, I guess.

“A female member of a National Guard military police unit was demoted for indecent exposure after a mud-wrestling party at the Army-run Camp Bucca detention center in Iraq, a military spokesman said Sunday.”

Judas priest, it’s not like the mud wrestlers were hurting anyone.

“Guard Member Demoted for Mud Wrestling”

And check out this sentence from the linked article.

“The party was isolated, Johnson said. “Detainees were nowhere in the vicinity,” he said. “They had no possible way of seeing what occurred.”

Can’t have detainees seeing things they shouldn’t.  Fricking worry warting over nothing.

Posted by John Venlet on 02/07 at 06:57 AM
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