Often people will say that an illustration is anecdotal, meaning that the example shown does not in itself constitute definitive evidence of the apparent result.
Author: Kilgore Forelle
Bad Behavior
Voluntaryists often site the condition that minions can get away with murder by wearing a uniform and/or a badge. I think this cognitive dissonance comes about because of the spade work of higher officials.
Feeding Frenzy
There is always a carcass or an invalid left after a feeding frenzy. POTUS’ self-inflicted beast feast is no exception. But to say it was self-inflicted understates the case — “bigly.”
Every Time I Go to Town …
Someone kicks my dog around. In this case, my dog is a symbol for something that used to be simple but now is spoiled by too many legislative and bureaucratic cooks.
Words Poorly Used #85 — Agreement
For purposes of this discussion there are two disjunct forms of agreement. When a seller and a buyer reach a meeting point on a transaction, it is a meeting point of agreement.
Wiggle Room
How many times will politicos exploit the wiggliness of words to create fictional compartments in the minds of their followers? As the Jason Robards character said in the 1989 movie, Parenthood, “It’s like your Aunt Edna’s ass. It goes on forever and it’s just as frightening.”
A Voluntaryist Completes the Proust Questionnaire
Remember the premise, to wit: This would be a good architecture for an interview with a very objective voluntaryist. So I have put myself into the personification of a scholarly, principled, individualist voluntaryist to imagine how honest answers to these questions might look.
Two Peas in a Pod
How are FDR and DJT alike? Let me list the ways: — POTUS’s ego is the highest entry on the agenda — Nothing is stable. The ground trembles beneath our feet. — Daily chats. — Sucks up to the military. — Puts the judicial branch on its back foot.
Words Poorly Used #84 — Scientist
Once again we’ve see this too-broad-by-multiples word, scientist, asked to carry far more straw than would break a camel’s back. If we look at its etymology, we can see the truth that it was not meant to tote all the baggage attached to it today.
Science March III
Why wouldn’t economists march for science? Why do science supporters believe they must insist that economics is a pseudoscience to validate that the so-called hard sciences are precise or predictive. Neither of these are the objectives of science.