PETER AND THE WOLF: Going Where the Bones Tell Them (tags)
Cult musicians with a completely strange take on touring
Adventures in American Theocracy - Part 1 - The Pequot War (tags)
Those wanting to know what a theocratic American foreign policy would look like need only consider 17th Century New England and the Pequots
Publicizing the condom to the four winds is, for the most part, the bravura of a puritan who is trying to prove to the world that he is not a puritan. To concentrate on the mechanical aspects of the sex act to the exclusion of the emotional and psychological aspects (which the condom campaign ignores) is the essence of Puritanism. The only difference between the new and the old is that whereas the traditional puritans were alleged to believe that sex was something to be isolated and repressed, neo-puritans accept sex as something to be isolated and exercised.
Puritanism: Root of American Fascism? (tags)
Since its beginning, the United States has been heavily influenced by its Puritan heritage. There are compelling reasons why this may be a major reason America, in too many ways, has been and increasingly is becoming today, an essentially fascist society.