Election Results

Nobody asked but … Every commentator who has any credibility left for a voluntaryist has said literally the same thing.  To wit — congratulations, a whole 1/3rd of you voted, congratulations, in very, very rare instances did a winning candidate garner even 20% of the American vote, congratulations, you provided cable news with their periodic…

The Argument from Patriotism

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Faith and Force

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Remembering My Dad, Spooner Quote #6, Logic Fallacy #13

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Labored Day

Nobody asked but … What exactly is it that we commemorate on labor day?  The hoodwinking of the American worker into the idea that merit has nothing to do with reward?  The delusion of management in thinking that individual workers are not unique?  The election by both to employ organized crime as an interface, to…

Court Dates

Nobody asked but …  The judge was pleasant, but she ate my lunch, kicked my tail, and showed me the door.  I was there petitioning to be the administrator of my Father’s estate, as was indelibly requested in his will.  This is the third time in my life of seventy plus years that I have…

Killing Fictional Babies, Spooner Quote #5, Logic Fallacy #12

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Fallacy #10, The Suppression of Democracy, Spooner Quote #3

Send him mail. “Finding the Challenges” is an original column appearing every other Wednesday at Everything-Voluntary.com, by Verbal Vol. Verbal is a software engineer, college professor, corporate information officer, life long student, farmer, libertarian, literarian, student of computer science and self-ordering phenomena. Archived columns can be found here. FTC-only RSS feed available here. There seems…