Nobody asked but … Who knew that Condoleeza Rice would run for the US Senate? Just when you thought you were safe from the Bush years, eh? Just when you found out that Jeb! was suspending his campaign (known around the water cooler as quitting), heh heh. Condi invented such infamous and timeless lines…
Category: Nobody Asked, But
No Edict
Nobody asked but … And what also don’t work are campaign promises, court decisions, plea bargains, academic relativism, or central planning. Kilgore Forelle
But Fear Itself
Nobody asked but … I got into a FB “debate” the other day on whether voting makes a difference — no cliches barred. Today, I’m looking at it another way. Would I knowingly partipate in behavior of the kind that endorsed FDR, Churchill, Stalin, and Hitler? Would I continue a practice that has produced 44…
Ought or Is
Nobody asked but … Hunter S. Thompson Quote: Human beings are the only creatures on earth that claim a God and the only thing that behaves like it hasn’t got one. Kilgore Forelle Human beings are the only creatures on earth that claim a God and the only thing that behaves like it hasn’t got…
re: The 2nd Amendment
Nobody asked but … Kudos to Skyler, for a crystal clear statement of the intent of the Amendment. The mode of our founders’ day was “balanced power” as practiced by the British Empire. A government should have more power than any state or population it wished to subjugate. Look, for example, at the brit interface…
Invincible Summer
Nobody asked but … Kilgore Forelle
Re: Scientific Controversy
Nobody asked but … There is absolutely no standard required for a definition of science. Anyone can claim any scientific thing. Some of the most amazing hoodwinking has over the centuries been offered as science. Remember that snake oil salesmen of the 19th century, exploiting the old west, often professed to be men of science. …
Kings and High Priests
Nobody asked but … Men will never be free until the last king is strangled with the entrails of the last priest. — Denis Diderot I agree with Diderot that kings and priests are part of the problem. But I understand how his words might be misused by collectivists. Most of the French revolutionists and…
Face Time
Nobody asked but … Foolish names and foolish faces always appear in public places — some folk wisdom from my youth. But have you noticed that the state cannot refrain from tooting its own horn. I suppose this is from another piece of folk wisdom, about getting face time. This is the hypocritical art of…
Re: Violence — Fight or Flight
Nobody asked but … Skyler’s Blog of today, On Violence, called for feedback (so somebody did ask!) This brought to mind the book I am currently reading, The Brothers: John Foster Dulles, Allen Dulles, and Their Secret World War, by Stephen Kinzer. This book describes violence on a massive scale. The Dulles brothers were assassins of…