Time flies when you’re having fun, but some things seem never to change. Wars lead to wars. Government leads to more government. Taxes lead to greater taxes. Modes of taxation lead to more and novel modes of taxation. Organized crime leads to organization, crime, and more organized crime.
Author: Kilgore Forelle
Endings
All things must come to an end, but it seems the frequency has been on an uptick this past week. Members of POTUS’s cabinet have seen the end of their service (Tillerson), or at least the beginning of the end (McMaster, DeVos).
Space Farce
The pugnacious thug, aged 4 in boy years, that is currently posing as POTUS, has come up with another idea — weaponize space and make its purveyors a branch of the Military Industrial Complex.
Implosion
Yesterday, I was an eyewitness, along with tens of thousands others, to the controlled implosion of the 48 year old Capital Plaza Tower, in Frankfort KY, a 24-story state office building, the former home of many government agencies, including the Department of Education.
Riddle
How are a military parade and a factory school alike? They both require the concentration of valuable assets in a relatively small space — as in a shooting gallery.
Information That Matters
Paul Saffo remarked that Samuel Johnson identified two types of information, that which you knew and that which you knew how to get. Saffo continues that in light of the Internet, Worldwide Web, and technology, we are now cursed with a glut of information, so we need a third type of information — that which matters.
Don’t You Know What Socialism Is? II
Earlier today I posted the above graphic in the Facebook group, Another 2000+ Libertarian Quotes.* On reflection, I could have taken the word, “legislative,” out.
Consolidation
I went to a “consolidated” high school. Franklin County Consolidated High School still bore that label when I transferred to it, in its second year. The process adjective was soon dropped as the little previous schools were forgotten. Names like Elkhorn, Bald Knob, Thornhill, Peaks Mill, and Bridgeport preceded that ugly, stark consolidated moniker. Economies of scale were sought. Franklin County beefed up its bus fleet, too. Many students now spent more than an hour a day riding on buses.
The Idea of Trust
“To be a good human being is to have a kind of openness to the world, an ability to trust uncertain things beyond your own control.” — Martha Nussbaum
Factory Schools
One sometimes wonders what planet these school admins came from. They are so focused on growing the system that they don’t realize there are other, independent trends unrelated to their process-bound goals.