Wednesday, May 16, 2012

Day Off

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Exhausted and disoriented. Can't think, much less write. See you tomorrow.
Tuesday, May 15, 2012

The Tongues Of Men And Angels Part 2: Inevitabilities

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My rhetoric, here and elsewhere, is on the libertarian side of conservative. But when we get down to principles -- when we start discuss...
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Monday, May 14, 2012

The Tongues Of Men And Angels

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"If I speak in the tongues of men and angels, but have not love, I have become sounding brass or a tinkling cymbal." -- Saint Pa...
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Sunday, May 13, 2012

A Terrible Chance

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First and foremost, Happy Mothers' Day to all mothers everywhere. Second but no less important, reflect upon the courage required by th...
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Saturday, May 12, 2012

Moves

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In a fictional setting, I wrote:     "Strength is an advantage, but not the only advantage. Speed trumps strength, and so does mental...
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Friday, May 11, 2012

Racism...Or Islamic Supremacy?

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What possible application could the concept of race -- any concept of race -- have to this obscenity? Nine British Muslim men were jailed...
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Thursday, May 10, 2012

Downshifting: Some Predictions

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One of the mechanisms that characterize a society with a free-market economy is the irregular advance of prosperity through that society v...
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Wednesday, May 9, 2012

Channeling

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Back in the late Sixties, Thomas Reed and Karl Hess produced a book titled "The End of the Draft," which was less about conscrip...
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Tuesday, May 8, 2012

Overheard In The Corridor

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Some of the funniest exchanges heard anywhere occur in the halls of the grayest of gray-suited office buildings: He: But what do you wa...
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Monday, May 7, 2012

The Hardest Master

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The Hardest Master I once wrote, as an introduction to a short story, that "Principles can be a hard master." I must admit to...
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To ask is to answer.

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We’re sitting on $15.4 trillion in debt. How is it going to get paid? And by whom? Back before 1970, foreigners held a 5 percent slice of ...
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Sunday, May 6, 2012

A Confluence of Idiocy

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What do you get when you cross Milton Friedman's 'negative income tax' welfare streamlining scheme, 'compassionate' co...
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Saturday, May 5, 2012

The Julia Story

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I'd say the masks are all the way off, now. Barack Hussein Obama's campaign website features an interactive presentation about a fi...
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Friday, May 4, 2012

WBTYM: The Video Devolution

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Words are the instruments of thought. Words are the tags we apply to categories and specific entities, that we might speak of them, their ch...
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Thursday, May 3, 2012

WBTYM: "Charity" And Its Pecksniffs

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(I'll award a Guest Post, max. 500 words, to the first person who identifies the common phrase acronymized in the title of this piece....
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Wednesday, May 2, 2012

Tension And Habitat Part 6: Summation

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The previous five pieces in this little series have emphasized habitat as an envelope-concept: a framework for comprehending the development...
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Tuesday, May 1, 2012

Tension And Habitat Part 5: Safety And Adaptation

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Once a species becomes dominant in a habitat, it starts to alter that habitat. Granted, various species possess different degrees of power ...
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