Nobody asked but … Parrish, you are right in that it is sneaking up on us. But the politicians have been running amok with their law and order demagoguery for nearly 50 years. Again, I am reading Radley Balko’s new book, “Rise of the Warrior Cop: The Militarization of America’s Police Forces” and the record…
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Compliance Training
The government is calling it a “federal survey,” but when cars are stopped at a police roadblock, directed into a parking lot, and asked by federal contractors for samples of their breath, saliva, and even blood, I would suggest that there is a lot more than a “survey” going on! American citizens (and indeed, individuals…
Top Winnie, Around Town, The Ring
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. In this…
Dirk Dickenson
Nobody asked but … When I was in college the first time I was kind of a hippy, although I could often be seen in an Air Force ROTC uniform with a haircut (more or less) to match. That was up through the Fall of 1967. In 1972, I was busy making a home for…
The Liberal Mind vs. the Conservative Mind
Send him mail. “Food for Thought” is an original column appearing every other Tuesday at Everything-Voluntary.com, by Norman Imberman. Norman is a retired podiatrist who loves playing piano, writing music, lawn bowling, bridge, reading, classical music, going to movies, plays, concerts and traveling. He is not a member of any social network, nor does he…
Re: Donut Fail
Parrish, this is priceless! And that reminds me to tell our readers that I have started on Radley Balko’s Rise of the Warrior Cop: The Militarization of America’s Police Forces. I expect to be posting a few cop fail observations myself, in the coming days. My cause célèbre is the casual shooting of dogs in…
Iranian Nuclear Inspections
Nobody asked but … Iran is talking about agreeing to undergo international nuclear inspections? Really? When did they stop beating their wives? The problem here is that such an agreement is not worth the paper it is written on, rather it has vast negative costs. Let’s review how the UN supervised inspections of Iraq worked. …
Welcome, Alex!
I want to welcome Alex R. Knight, III to EVC! (As a blogger.) He’s a veteran in the voluntaryist movement, writing and blogging for Strike-The-Root.com (archive, blog), C4SS.org (archive), and DailyAnarchist.com (archive). A student of American terror-fiction author Edgar Allen Poe (among others), he’s published two collected works of short stories titled Tales From Dark…
Re: Social Skills and Authoritarianism
Nobody asked but … Skyler, I very much agree that it takes no brain to to see the faults of grade segregation, but I think it takes a disciplined brain to see the better alternatives. Organized schooling in America, however, is eminently qualified for behavior requiring no brain. Collectivism negates the use of brains. It…
On the Hunger Games V
(Spoiler Alert!) In the end, the toppling of one tyrant meant the the rise of others. Though Katniss killed President Coin, the heretofore leader of District 13 and the rebellion, and aspiring dictator, “representative” rule will govern what’s left of Panem (North America) going forward. Suzanne Collins story seems to reveal her as a student…