So They'd Had Practice At It!

I just stumbled on the Herero Uprising, which revealed to me that the Krauts already had plenty of experience with genocide and concentration camps.  No wonder they were so efficient the second time around.

The big difference was that whereas the Nazis immediately gassed the elderly and women with children, in Africa, the Germans actually put those groups to slave labor.  Survivors resembled the Muselmänner of the Nazi camps.

Leftist Hypocrisy # 675

So Welzer smugly advocates a "drastic cut in consumerism, starting with the underlying mentality," but notice the shirt he's wearing...

Sneaking Religion Into Science

“The rapidly progressing study of the human microbiota is revealing that humans are not individual self-contained beings, but instead hugely complex super-organisms that blur the distinction between where ‘we’ end and ‘they’ begin."  (source)

Um, no, Dr. Sirinathsinghji, your thinly veiled pantheism notwithstanding, we are a WHOLE lot more than the sum total of our cells and microbiota:  we have souls.

They do not.

But you're right that we are indeed "hugely complex super-organisms."  An updated way of saying, "made in God's image."

Just As DeTocqueville Predicted

The sad state of American society today.