This morning, I heard a BBC report, wherein an American journalist was being interviewed about the weather in New York City. This was a fever pitch affair, for there has never before been snow and cold in NYC — right?
Author: Kilgore Forelle
Spaghetti Code
Spaghetti Code is a computer programming term referring to poor design. In most instances, the making of law resembles a pot of spaghetti on a full boil.
Animal Day
It took me many years to quit using the word, “pet,” with regard to animals who came to live with us. “Pet” now seems to me only a slight elevation from the word “slave.”
Another 2000+ Libertarian Quotes
FYI. Happy New Year! My primary ego, Jim Carigan, administers this group on FB.
Yet Another Set of 2018 Predictions
In the year 2018, these occurrences will prevail: War is still hell; Taxation is still theft; The state still claims collective powers that its individual members do not have…
Another Set of 2018 Predictions
In 2018, we will see: POTUS commits a gaffe; POTUS spends taxpayer funds on golf; POTUS eggs on North Korea…
Herodotus on the United Nations
Both recent and long term developments at the United Nations have been illuminated by newly discovered (by me) passages from Herodotus of Halicarnassus.
Preferences
Preferences are frequently discounted as selfish impulses, but they are probably the second most important class of property that one owns. The first, in my opinion, is your time and space, the outward manifestation of your self.
Town and Country
What is the great attraction of the city? We have gone from a world in which most of us were living on the land to a world where it is nearly impossible to experience the unartificial. Why have we accumulated in these urban enclaves?
The Whole Law
An English translation of The Talmud holds, what is hateful to you, do not unto your fellow; this is the whole law — all the rest is a commentary to this law; go and learn it.