Once you reach the point where life is severely degraded you’ve entered the threshold of Ivan Denisovich. The refusal to recognize the devastating nature of American capitalism on its lowest tier employees serves to make the reading of Solzhenitsyn exactly half as valuable. And I say half because there’s two lessons to be learned from Solzhenitsyn: 1) the value of perseverance and 2) the nature of oppression. Not understanding that the kitchen or factory or Walmart has become your gulag is to have completely missed the second point and undercuts the universality of the literature. It’s applicable to what I am witnessing. Our willingness to accept and recognize this horrific truth is to render Solzhenitsyn still relevant.

LOL! Jebus this is blowing UP!

https://www.chicagotribune.com/news/...430-story.html

Calm down! I'm getting my luggage here.

^ That's a real quality post, right there. Can't argue with that, and I really like your analysis of the lessons to be learned from Solzhenitsyn.

Stunning news coming out of England:- Woman Has Baby

The mother and the baby are both well, and the father has announced that he is "absolutely thrilled."
Although it has not been widely reported, some insiders suspect that the birth may be the result of an act of unprotected coitus some nine months earlier.

Thank you.

White House requires Big Pharma to list drug prices on TV ads as soon as this summer

Like trying to put out a housefire by opening a window.

"Holy **** that cancer medication is far too expensive! They'll not get a dollar of my money."

I'm waiting for polio and smallpox to make a comeback so we can see just how committed anti-vaxxers really are.