A trip to a local food market will tell you more about a geographic spot than I could possibly relate in a blog entry. I love supermarkets, new and used book stalls, flea markets, art galleries, sidewalk vendors, newsstands, tradesperson workplaces, restaurants, fairs, craft shows, auctions, theaters (movie, stage, concert, and opera).
Category: Nobody Asked, But
Charlottesville
The Charlottesville demonstrations got out-of-hand; they were non-peaceable. But is anybody surprised? Part of the baggage of a free republic is that it gets out-of-hand sometimes.
Delegation/Relegation
A truth of government is that things are disposed of at the next level down, where the incentive is to lay blame but to preserve the process. This is called relegation.
Intervention
The conditioned citizen, when confronted with a problem, will hasten to ask “how will the government handle this?” The thoughtful individual voluntaryist will ask instead “what is the problem?”
If A Doesn’t Get You, Then B Will
When one argues that of two mutually exclusive cases, one choice is better than the other, it can never be empirically validated. If you can measure one, it is precluding the other, which therefore cannot generate real data.
Is ‘Too Nice’ a Problem?
POTUS recently exhorted a gathering of LEOs to not be “too nice.” Why do cops misperceive that when they please politicians, it is entirely removed from pleasing the public, except for its authoritarians?
Smoking at the Skunk Works
What possible difference could it make that Musk and Zuckerberg don’t see eye to eye on artificial intelligence? Their repartee has plenty of artificiality and no intelligence.
An Aircraft Carrier
What is happening here? Have the merchants of death gathered at the water for one long, last draft at the trough? Is the water without limit? How long can we survive having our financial stability sucked away?
But What About … ?
The purpose of citing past peccadillos is always to take the bloom off of good that someone did. This is a composition fallacy.
A Dynamic Agreement
The motto in the graphic, when two words are changed, makes a good approximation for Voluntaryism — “voluntaryism” is the new subject, and substitute “anyone” for “someone.”