Nobody asked but … One of the negative consequences of collective action is that the desire for free lunch must collide with T.A.N.S.T.A.A.F.L. – There Ain’t No Such Thing as a Free Lunch. The Hamiltonian solution is taxes, which must be taken, even if violence is necessary, even if killing is necessary. The modern American…
Author: Kilgore Forelle
Summer Invasion
Nobody asked but … I had thought that news of this cataclysm was generally known, but I found out in a recent Facebook squabble that it is not yet so. My wife and I and our neighbors must endure a home invasion in our little farming corner, annually. Hordes of uninvited guests cover our hillsides.…
Words Poorly Used #74 — Duty
When a person tells you it is your duty to [fill in the blank], that person is really trying to coerce you into relinquishing your future, for his or her own perceived benefit. Let’s say, for example, that someone says it is your duty to vote, that means you are being guilted into a collective…
Preserving the Unkeepable
Nobody asked but … Statists, those who would preserve the unkeepable, cannot account for things which are not directly accountable. They deceive themselves and others by choosing to account for that which confirms their bias. That which they wish to obfuscate they make complex. They deal in acronyms, like GNP and CPI. They generate mystery. …
Same As It Ever Was
Nobody asked but … I don’t know about where you live, readers, but here is how we do it in Kentucky. No matter how many early candidates for high office, the big law firms, which run the state, split up their rainmakers among all the candidates. Every big law firm buys part of every candidate.…
Who Knew?
Nobody asked but … Who knew that Condoleeza Rice would run for the US Senate? Just when you thought you were safe from the Bush years, eh? Just when you found out that Jeb! was suspending his campaign (known around the water cooler as quitting), heh heh. Condi invented such infamous and timeless lines…
No Edict
Nobody asked but … And what also don’t work are campaign promises, court decisions, plea bargains, academic relativism, or central planning. Kilgore Forelle
Words Poorly Used #73 — Debate and Argument
Somebody wake me up when there is a true debate, not some tricked-up reality show imposter. Of course, presidential debates have never been — either presidential or debate. But I have listened to some more formal debates recently. Tom Woods debated Michael Malice on whether Alexander Hamilton was a hero of liberty. And Anthony Gregory…
But Fear Itself
Nobody asked but … I got into a FB “debate” the other day on whether voting makes a difference — no cliches barred. Today, I’m looking at it another way. Would I knowingly partipate in behavior of the kind that endorsed FDR, Churchill, Stalin, and Hitler? Would I continue a practice that has produced 44…
Ought or Is
Nobody asked but … Hunter S. Thompson Quote: Human beings are the only creatures on earth that claim a God and the only thing that behaves like it hasn’t got one. Kilgore Forelle Human beings are the only creatures on earth that claim a God and the only thing that behaves like it hasn’t got…