Nobody asked but … What exactly is it that we commemorate on labor day? The hoodwinking of the American worker into the idea that merit has nothing to do with reward? The delusion of management in thinking that individual workers are not unique? The election by both to employ organized crime as an interface, to…
Author: Kilgore Forelle
Court Dates
Nobody asked but … The judge was pleasant, but she ate my lunch, kicked my tail, and showed me the door. I was there petitioning to be the administrator of my Father’s estate, as was indelibly requested in his will. This is the third time in my life of seventy plus years that I have…
Regarding Stefan
Nobody asked but … In an earlier post, I may have come across as a bit peevish about Stefan Molyneux. Let me hasten to put that into context. I am in disagreement, specifically, with Stefan’s treatment of the events in Ferguson, Missouri. If time permits in the future, I may tell you why. But here’s…
Words Poorly Used #48 — Rationale
In software engineering, we use a term, overloaded, to describe keywords that have different uses in different contexts. And we really should try to avoid overloading whenever possible — it has a synonym, ambiguous. It seems in a logical world there should be connections among words that seem to point in a similar direction. This…
Words Poorly Used #47 — History
We don’t scramble facts on purpose, we just do. Then we socialize the scramble and call it “history.” The other day, I heard this interesting story from Stefan Molyneux on his Free Domain podcast — his first history professor in college interrupted his question in mid-sentence by throwing her eyeglasses at him, and he caught…
Organized Lying
Nobody asked but … As long as government functionaries have complete discretion over secrecy, why would even a babe in arms or uneducated wretch be so foolish as to give them trust? I was graciously informed by my freshman composition professor that any occurrence of journalism which might coincide with truth and/or fact was the…
Principles Cannot Fail
Nobody asked but … From Facebook today, this self-serving, self-congratulation from the “liberty wing” of the GOP: A lot of libertarians are coming face to face with the failure of the Non Aggression Principal. Some are pretty traumatized. Some realize that maybe they need to reevaluate their definition of self. — Dave Nalle Here’s my…
Nagasaki as a Fact of Life Casualty
Nobody asked but … It’s an unfortunate fact of life that “evil” ideologies can’t just be beaten back, they have to be stamped out. So wrote a respondent to Robert Higgs’ retrospective on the nuclear bombing of Nagasaki, written six years ago. How many cognitive dissonances can you find in that quote? Checking the premise,…
Words Poorly Used #46 — Freedom
Wouldn’t William Wallace, aka Braveheart, be rolling over in his grave now? Contrary to popular misconception, Scotland’s people will not be voting on either freedom or independence. They will be voting on (and in the minds of some, submitting to) which government they will have — a.) British rule or b.) another state modeled on…
The Wages of the State
Nobody asked but … Somebody posted a meme on the Web stating that Senators make in the neighborhood of 170 dollars an hour but many of them voted against a minimum wage around $10 per hour. Firstly, they shouldn’t be setting either wage level because, secondly, they have demonstrated that they don’t know much about…