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End Another Pointless War: On Drugs
The Polemicist by Michael House, FRGS Prohibition didn’t work with alcohol and it’s not working with drugs.” KINGS SUTTON England—(Weekly Hubris)—3/19/12—A brave and wise senior police officer has called for the decriminalization of…
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A Town like Addis, Xmas Without Xmas & Other Ethiopian Adventures, Part 3
The Polemicist by Michael House, FRGS KINGS SUTTON England—(Weekly Hubris)—2/19/12— Day 8, 25th December, continued. In the evening, after a 360 kilometre drive, we arrived at the Mountain View Hotel, Lalibela. At 8,745…
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A Town like Addis, Xmas Without Xmas & Other Ethiopian Adventures, Part 2
The Polemicist by Michael House. “Etiope . . . hathe a riche contrey. In it be many trees aromatikes and many mynes of fyne gold, and the people of this contrey be so…
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A Town Like Addis, Xmas Without Xmas & Other Ethiopian Adventures, Part I
The Polemicist by Michael House “That amazing unknown country, Prester John’s fabled land of inaccessible mountain barriers and bottomless chasms, and wild, war-loving beautiful folk.”—George MacDonald Fraser BACK IN LONDON England—(Weekly Hubris)—1/23/12—Fraser was…
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Happy Winter Solstice! What I Shall Not Miss This Christmas
The Polemicist by Michael House KING’S SUTTON England—(Weekly Hubris)—12/12/11—In a week’s time, I am going away for my first holiday of the year. I’m going trekking in Ethiopia. There will be no newspapers…
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Tibetans Make Ultimate Sacrifice & Under Islamic Law, Rape Victims Jailed
The Polemicist by Michael House KING’S SUTTON England—(Weekly Hubris)—11/21/11—The Dalai Lama has long ruled out armed struggle. So Tibetans under the jackboot of the Chinese army of occupation have few ways of resisting…
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Jimmy Carter: American Hero
The Polemicist by Michael House LONDON England—(Weekly Hubris)—10/17/11—Jimmy Carter isn’t everyone’s cup of tea. His religiosity is cloying, his smile is so cheesy you feel it must be insincere, and his all-round saintliness…
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Let Children be Children
The Polemicist by Michael House KING’S SUTTON England—(Weekly Hubris)—10/3/11—My brother, Doctor Richard House, who is senior lecturer in psychology at the University of Roehampton, South London, is as energetic as I am lazy.…
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The War Against Women Continues
The Polemicist by Michael House KING’S SUTTON England—(Weekly Hubris)—9/12/11—Demented Christians, whose interpretation of “thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself” is “thou shalt force thy female neighbor to be an incubator against her…
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America: A Failed State?
The Polemicist by Michael House “Americans can always be relied upon to do the right thing—after they have exhausted all other remedies.” —Winston Churchill KING’S SUTTON England—(Weekly Hubris)—8/22/10—Extreme Republicans habitually wrap themselves in…