The Chinese and Soviet Communist Parties say hello. As do the Manchu and Taiping. (View Post)

Loyalty, kindness, and decency in life also count for a very great deal, which rules out any of those three. Essentially, they've no intention of remaining faithful, and will happily trade in th… (View Post)

"Let me tell you something. There's no nobility in poverty. I have been a rich man and I have been a poor man. And I choose rich every f*ckin' time. Because, at least as a rich man, wh… (View Post)

I think Stoicism has always been the most attractive of all the ancient pagan belief systems. They never quite got to the point of condemning slavery as an institution, but they did see slaves as hum… (View Post)

The kind of alpha male who's dining with his much younger girlfriend, in an exclusive waterfront restaurant, and then finds himself worrying about the size of his ... yacht, when another alpha m… (View Post)