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The Polemicist by Michael House LONDON England—(Weekly Hubris)—8/8/11—We bloggers who specialize in righteous indignation sometimes suffer from indignation-overload. There are so many horrors to write about that it is difficult to know where to start. Should I go with the US debt crisis and the Tea Party nutters who want to ruin the economy in [...]

The Polemicist by Michael House LONDON, England—(Weekly Hubris)—6/27/11—Dervillie Permal lived on the Chagos Islands, a tropical paradise south of the Maldives in the Indian Ocean. Until the summer of 1971. He was coming back from work on a coconut plantation when he was stopped by armed soldiers. He was told he must leave the island [...]

The Polemicist by Michael House “I mourn the loss of thousands of precious lives, but I will not rejoice in the death of one, not even an enemy. Returning hate for hate multiplies hate, adding deeper darkness to a night already devoid of stars. Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate [...]

The Polemicist by Michael House LONDON England—(Weekly Hubris)—(5/2/11)—By the time you read this, William Saxe-Coburg-Gotha (currently going under the alias Windsor), Heir Presumptive to the throne of Great Britain, will have married Ms. Katherine Middleton. The young woman came to the particular attention of His Royal Highness when she walked half-naked down the catwalk during [...]

The Polemicist by Michael House “No reason to get excited,” the thief he kindly spoke./ “There are many here among us who feel that life is but a joke./ But you and I, we’ve been through that, and this is not our fate./So let us not talk falsely now, the hour is getting late.” —from [...]

The Polemicist by Michael House LONDON England—(Weekly Hubris)—3/21/11—I would call the punishing of a suspected criminal before he has even had a trial, un-American—if that expression still had any meaning today. It is certainly barbaric. So vindictive is the Department of Defense towards Bradley Manning that he is being ritually humiliated daily by his captors. [...]

The Polemicist by Michael House LONDON England—(Weekly Hubris)—3/14/11—The last Labour government in Britain was appalling. The dreadful Blair was followed by the almost-as-bad Brown. The score after 13 years in power was: a catastrophic illegal war that made Britain a legitimate target for every Muslim terrorist; the destruction of civil liberties by an increasingly authoritarian [...]

The Polemicist by Michael House LONDON, England—(Weekly Hubris)—2/21/11—The American Constitution, as amended in, I believe, 1791, gives citizens of the United States the right to bear arms. The Second Amendment reads as follows: “A well regulated militia, being necessary to the security of a free state, the right of the people to keep and bear [...]

The Polemicist by Michael House LONDON, England—(Weekly Hubris)—1/31/11—David Kato was a gay Ugandan man. He was known as the “grandfather of the kuchas,” as gay people in Uganda call themselves. Last Wednesday afternoon, a man entered his house with a hammer and battered him to death. Homosexuality is illegal in Uganda. Recently, an MP tried [...]

The Polemicist by Michael House LONDON, England—(Weekly Hubris)—1/3/11—There is a long history of tyrannical regimes refusing to allow winners of the Nobel Peace Prize to collect their awards. The most recent examples are Andrei Sakharov (Russia) in 1975 and Aung San Suu Chi (Burma) in 1991. In 1936, the German pacifist, Carl von Ossietsky, was [...]