Episode 095 welcomes Rodger Paxton of The LAVA Flow to the podcast for a chat with Skyler. Topics include: Rodger’s podcast production company Pax Libertas Productions, mid-90s awareness of Ron Paul, Ayn Rand, the New Hampshire Free State Project, the importance of homeschooling to advancing liberty, Rodger’s experience with radical unschooling, the heavy costs of authoritarian parenting, drunk driving as a victimless crime, and more.
Day: November 16, 2017
Bad at Logic or Intellectually Dishonest
A popular dishonest fallacy I’ve seen a lot recently is to point to an example of one individual saying or advocating something stupid or nasty, and saying, “This is what all people who are _________s believe!”
Status Symbol II
To make a long story short, numbers of SUVs dictate numbers of lowslung European racing cars. Porsche is trying to jigger numbers filed with bureaucrats, and unintended consequences arise again.
Copblocked
A week or so back I was trapped in a parking lot; blocked in a space by a cop car while the badge-scum who arrived in it molested some guy parked next to me. How would the tax addict have reacted if I had blocked him in? You don’t even have to answer because we both know.
The News
Objectivity would require looking at the broader environment in which broadcast news competes for public attention. The news isn’t fake; it’s just rarely whole and pure.
Statism is the Ultimate Embodiment of Vice
Pride is the worst kind of vice, power is the worst kind of pride, political power is the worst kind of power, and state power is the worst kind of political power.