About 19 years ago, around half-past dusk, in an average town in a nearby state, I was riding in the passenger seat while my wife-at-the-time drove. Pulling a particularly blatant act of poor driving in the middle of town, she made a left turn and cut off an approaching coproach. She seemed completely oblivious when I mentioned this error. Unsurprisingly, the gangster in question made a turn, followed, and stopped her.
Author: Kent McManigal
Seeds on Fertile Soil
I’ve told a few select people about this already, but because of the personal nature of it I haven’t spread it around too much; I don’t want to violate anyone’s privacy. A couple of months ago, out of the blue, I got a nice private message on one of those Evil Socialist Media Platforms.
Encounters with bureaucRats, Episode 2
My first car was an electric car– yes, I have always been an environmentalist. When I went to the DMV office to register the car, they had their standard questions about the vehicle. But the answers weren’t standard.
The Day Cops Surrounded Me
I used to give a presentation on the mountainmen of the Rocky Mountain fur trade each year for fourth grade at the local elementary school. I went to the classroom in full mountainman gear and talked about the history and the tools. I gave a few demonstrations to the kids, such as showing how to set a steel trap, start a fire without matches (both with flint and steel and with a bow drill; the kids’ favorite), and how to load a muzzleloading rifle.
Encounters with bureaucRats
Every year the State tried new ways to make it too hard to comply with all the rules in an attempt to shut down pet stores. One year the State decided that customers who bought certain critters, like parakeets and iguanas, needed to fill out a State form.
Enough Problems without Government
The threat posed by belief in government is greater in some areas but seems unavoidable everywhere, and that’s insane. Getting away from government is part of the reason the frontier has been historically popular, and without a frontier or other state-free spaces, there’s a ticking time bomb that can’t be defused. Society will eventually pay a price it can’t afford.
Must Be “Opposite Day”
I read a blog post where the act of v*ting was characterized as “prosocial” behavior. Really?
“Happy” Blowback Day
We were told they hated us for our freedoms (instead of for the US government’s crimes). Now those freedoms are all but gone; attacked and shredded by the US government, continually, without a break for the past 17 years.
Upsetting Thieves with Truth
Years ago, long before I had a blog, I had a retail shop. I hated robbing my customers in the name of “sales tax”, but if I didn’t, armed goons would have come and murdered me. Insanity, I know!
If You’re Only Decent When Threatened…
I can get along with others without going to war. Even when I don’t agree with them. In the absence of government, I’ll not change into a monster. And I believe I have a good chance of fending off those rare pathetic losers who do. I’m not that different from others, am I?