Nobody asked but … Across every linden tree I have ever seen, there are no two leaves alike when the fall color begins to blush. Each leaf is a product of where and when it came into the world, it’s birth, and a product of where and how it spent the growing season, it’s world.…
Author: Kilgore Forelle
Hindsight Or Foresight — Always 20/20
Nobody asked but … I don’t have much patience with either hindsighted speculation or crystal ball gazing. Very few of these time travel accounts bear the mark of Occam’s Razor. I don’t concur that Pearl Harbor was a conspiracy, but the facts are eloquent without overcooking the detail. And there is nothing really surprising there…
Words Poorly Used #13 — Machiavellian (Update)
OK, I stand corrected. Niccolo Machiavelli is not the culprit here. Although I still have a bit of a bone to pick with him as a court hanger-on, a minion of the ruling class. One of my greatest creative heroes, it’s true, also lived as a courtier, but Mozart did not advise on affairs of…
Words Poorly Used #13 — Machiavellian
Could there possibly be a more egregious authoritarian suck-up than this sockhead, Machiavelli? Why do people use the adjective, Machiavellian, with a kind of grudging admiration? Kilgore.
Humpty Dumpty II
Nobody asked but … You may be assured that somewhere behind Humpty Dumpty, among the King’s men, there is an Iago. He has put Humpty Dumpty on that wall. In Kentucky, we talk about a turtle on a fence post — we don’t know how he got there, but we know he did not do…
When Does Humpty Dumpty Begin to Fall?
Nobody asked but … When Humpty Dumpty gets up on the wall. We often theorize that communism falls when it is overwhelmed by its own weight, like a beached whale. See the Berlin Wall. But any thoroughgoing analysis will show that specific instances of communism including socialism begin to fall with the advent of an…
If Libertarianism Is Such a Great System
Nobody asked but … On a podcast, We Are Libertarians, I listened to yesterday, the interviewer asked Tom Woods, “If libertarianism is such a great system, why haven’t any countries adopted it?” Tom did an excellent job of answering, because it was just a softball slow pitch for him. What I was astounded by was…
Life Is Hard
Nobody asked but … Once on Seinfeld, Elaine complained about having to shake a bottle of juice. This is supposed to be light satire, but really life IS hard. It’s full of choices, but way too many of them are prefabricated choices. Why did Elaine’s bottle appear to command a choice with no alternative? What…
Words Poorly Used #12 — Simplicity
After hassling with a beyond-conceivable variety of unforeseen consequences, traveling and trying to be online, I am convinced that the market is trying to choose simplicity but has not yet succeeded. So far, the signal is that if you throw money at your problems they will go away. But since you have to throw the…
Words Poorly Used #11 — Security
Security, as in Transportation Security Administration. TSA agent confiscates sock monkey’s toy gun. Great! And today I am taking my first commercial flight since the TSA went gonzo! Dang bunned sock monkeys! Always stirring things up. I’ll probably get an endoscopy out of this! Kilgore