Nobody asked but … I don’t think there is any word, phrase, sentence, paragraph, clause, or provision in the U. S. Constitution which asks or allows the government to circumscribe the peaceful movement of peaceful travelers. AmIright? Kilgore
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Words Poorly Used #52 — Minarchism
There are actually at least two kinds of minarchist. The first is the libertarian who sees a small but appropriate role for a little bit of a state. Some people see this as approving of acorns but disliking oaks. I suppose this is through a confusion among the words stasis, meaning an unchanging condition, and…
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…
Bad Ideas
Nobody asked but … Lily Tomlin posed the difficulty, “I worry that the person who thought up Muzak may be thinking up something else.” The same could be said about a jillion bad ideas. United Nations? Allying with Joseph Stalin? The TSA? The NSA? The Iraq War. Don’t you worry that the current incarnation of…
Man’s Law, Architecture, Reason
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. As I…
Words Poorly Used #40 — Commemoration
Looking at the etymology of this word, we can deduce that it means a group recalling something together. Unfortunately, here in the nation, it means remembering mythology together so we can forget individually what has happened in reality. Today, we commemorate the events of war and our fellow nationals who have served and died in…
Cats and Dogs, Dysfunctions of a Collective, YALFE
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. Last week…
The Tardigrade, Time Bandits, Another Fallacy
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. This column…
Like a Highwayman
Nobody asked but … It is true that the theory of our Constitution is, that all taxes are paid voluntarily; that our government is a mutual insurance company, voluntarily entered into by the people with each other; that each man makes a free and purely voluntary contract with all others who are parties to the…
Conservatives Never Tell It Like It Is
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…