It seems to me that there are 3 kinds of scarcity: 1) natural, 2) monopolistic, and 3) creative. The first and third are conducive to free markets. The second can produce horrors.
Author: Kilgore Forelle
Words Poorly Used #138 — Collusion
Rudy is right, collusion is not a crime. One can collude in planning a surprise birthday party. Such collusion is only a crime if the birthday party is illegal and if it actually takes place. Even then, collusion is only a compounding element.
Collectives
I am a member of the collective of those who love our farm, those who love the land of Kentucky, those who love the land of the US, those who love North America, those who love the Americas, those who love the Western Hemisphere, those who love the World, those who love the Solar System, the Milky Way, the Universe, the Universes.
Pathological Liars
My second least favorite politician, a former mayor of the festering NYC, current attorney for my least favorite politician, POTUS, has been stinking up the newspace, often and potently.
Neither
But somebody did ask, a two-choice poll was posted on Facebook asking for whom would I vote in November — Democrat or Republican. As the Paul Newman character in “Harper” said to the Pamela Tiffin character, “you have a way of starting conversations that ends conversation.”
Words Poorly Used #137 — Argument
In a discussion the other day, a friend asked me to pretend that I was doing a performance review on POTUS. His argument was based on that premise, and the subarguments were 1) POTUS is a CEO, 2) the “economy” is “good,” and 3) there are “jobs.” I refused to take the bait. Ayn Rand would have been proud of me because I considered the premises.
Better Ingredients, Better Pizza
I don’t like Papa John’s pizza. And I don’t like the University of Louisville Cardinals (I’m hoping to drift back inside the pale now that Chris Mack is there). So don’t come here looking for objectivity.
Guns and Triremes
It has always been the same, one person or one institution made-up of oligarchs, has been able to buy the WMD. At the same time, they keep the serfs unable to hoard even a peashooter, much less the peas to fire through it.
International Wrecking Ball
The problems of the USA vis NATO are direct consequences of the size, the gross excessiveness, of the PMIC (Politico-Military Industrial Complex). The whole world is captive to this behemoth.
Webs
I did run into a spiderweb on my porch this morning. My blithe forehead snagged one or more strands of the silky stuff. But I don’t know whether I have activated some god-like black avenger that will eventually see me in my grave. It’s the not knowing that is the point.