Nobody asked but … There is a critical importance in knowing who you are dealing with, but I want to be clear on my application of the NAP. If you identify a statist, that is not an automatic “open fire” situation in and of itself. If you encounter a rattlesnake, and it is 10 yards…
Author: Kilgore Forelle
Bitching
Nobody asked but … If your only tool is bitching, then every problem looks like a frustration, every frustration looks like a person, every person looks like a victim, every victim looks like a slave. In fact, you seek feedback only to confirm your attitude that others are not on board your slaveship. If you…
Re: Condemnation
Nobody asked but … I am not ready to condemn Donald Sterling myself. I have severe reservations about depriving a man of the use of his property without due process. Although I have no personal curiosity about the situation of why the taping of his remarks happened, I do have questions about the use of…
Logic Fallacy
Nobody asked but … My alter ego, Verbal Vol, is in the midst of penning a series on logic fallacy in his bi-weekly columns, Finding the Challenges. But today I ran across an excellent article by Max Borders, Effectively Irrational: 30 common fallacies used against libertarians. These will give you excellent examples of how logic…
Words Poorly Used #37 — Logic
A lie can travel halfway around the world while the truth is still putting on its shoes. — Mark Twain And a logic fallacy, unencumbered by facts, can jet around the Earth three times while logic is still gathering facts. A politician can create a meme while it takes at least one legislative cycle to…
Words Poorly Used #36 — Earth Day
I’ll get the obligatory linguistic complaint out of the way first. Every day since the Earth coalesced from space dust has been Earth day. There is not a special day. The fact that so many think there is a special day shows that humans are egocentric to the point of disability. The history of human…
Billboards
Nobody asked but … I passed two billboards on the way to work this morning. I have been passing one of them for maybe a year now, and it asks “Heaven or Hell?” Today there was another one, a recruiting billboard for the US Marine Corps. The new one (USMC) headlines the bold word “COMMITTMENT,”…
Driver’s License
Nobody asked but … I have been stalked by the state for every day of my life. I had to refer to my driver’s license this morning to fill out some medical paperwork. And I began to study it (I have had this one for almost 4 years, but I have had some driver’s license…
Words Poorly Used #35 — Federal Safety Record
There is no Federal Safety Record. There is a history of political acts by politicians claiming to act in the public interest. Then there are flows of consequences coming from those acts. Many of the consequences are unforeseen, because after all politicians are no more foresighted than anyone else. From time to time these consequences…
The Informant
Nobody asked but … Please see this movie — The Informant. If for nothing else, see it to be amazed by Matt Damon. See it to be spellbound by Scott Bakula. Watch this movie, and revel in the fact that individualism so rules the world that all the governments in history cannot change it. Understand…