Nobody asked but … The only thing, which family farms have grown successfully in the past 80 years, has been government. And why are we still stuck in the paradigm that FDR and Henry Wallace initiated in 1933? No government has so badly used individual farmers since the Roman Empire decided that only farmers could…
Author: Kilgore Forelle
Words Poorly Used #26 — Character
No people who ever lost their character kept their liberty. — Lawrence W. Reed Nowadays we speak of character as a byproduct of negatives — we refer to a loss as character building, we refer to duress as character building. Authority figures, who are in fact bullies, often refer to the sadism that they inflict…
Science and Faith
Nobody asked but … I could not wait to share this link with you, 22 Messages of Hope (and Science) for Creationists, written by Ethan Siegel. This is where evidence and faith come together. This article shows to me the value of an examined life, from either side. And I will share here with you…
Farm Subsidy
Nobody asked but … I call to your attention an analysis from the Mercatus Institute, at George Mason University. And the worst part of it is that many of these cronies are not cronies of the current regime — some go all the way back to FDR and Henry Wallace. They are in embedded special…
Words Poorly Used #25 — Sacrifice
People often talk about making a sacrifice for others, or subsuming their individuality to an external cause, as a positive. But what they are doing is choosing to behave in a certain way. Others will refer to sacrifice as something positive expected of others — commanders will say that they had to sacrifice so many…
Re: Sacrifice
Nobody asked but … When you think sacrifice, think goat kids and virgin female humans on altars covered with blood, think innocent tribe members on a Mayan edifice saturated with gore, think about burnings at the stake. … We are not created to be subordinate to the benefit of another. We are created without regard…
Snow Removal
Nobody asked but … In the last two weeks, we have all become more acquainted with snow removal than we may have hoped. I just got off my tractor after hauling a huge pallet up and down my thousand foot drive and the 300 foot drive of my neighbor. Nature will come along in a…
House Arrest
Nobody asked but … I know this will look like I have too much time on my hands, but really I was taking a break between two strenuous tasks. Anyhow, as I sipped a cup of joe, I idly began to read the court docket for the past week here in my local burg. This…
Flim Flam at the Church School
Nobody asked but … My little town was the town in which the movie, The Flim Flam Man, was made, more than 45 years ago. A flim flam is a down-home phrase for a confidence game or snake oil proposition. Now the phenomenon is back in real life this time. A local church school, on…
National Defense
Nobody asked but … National Defense — Is an abstraction, and perversion, of the self-defense exception in the Non-aggression Principle. The process boils down to a process which single-mindedly defends the process itself, along with its armaments, tools, fortifications, espionage, and human resources. Armies defend forts, and supply routes, and its conscripted minions — in…