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…
Category: Nobody Asked, But
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…
Re: The Reefer Bowl
Nobody asked but … It is only chance that has paired up Washington (state) and Colorado twice, as the two states that have legalized pot, and as the two states whose resident teams will be in the Super Bowl. And although I have often inveighed on conflation, this conflation seems to be a happy use! …
What We Should Do
Nobody asked but … In his speech on the NSA, Obama said this, “But America’s capabilities are unique. And the power of new technologies means that there are fewer and fewer technical constraints on what we can do. That places a special obligation on us to ask tough questions about what we should do.” (emphasis from original speech). And what…
An Inconvenient Man
Nobody asked but … The next time you have the idea that POTUS is the most powerful person on Earth, just think of these two contemporaries: Martin Luther King, Jr. and Lyndon Baines Johnson. Kilgore
Logic Fallacies
Nobody asked but … I have a few candidates for inclusion in any standard list of logical fallacies: The Time Bandits’ Fallacy — in this logic misstep, things are taken out of chronological sequence and set up to be causality observations. Examples are closing the barn door when the horse is gone, pre-crime where actions…
Impertinent Obstructions
Nobody asked but … There are times when I run across a phrase so wonderful that I must share it with you. The natural effort of every individual to better his own condition is so powerful that it is alone, and without any assistance, capable not only of carrying on the society to wealth and…