Summer Invasion

Nobody asked but … I had thought that news of this cataclysm was generally known, but I found out in a recent Facebook squabble that it is not yet so.  My wife and I and our neighbors must endure a home invasion in our little farming corner, annually.  Hordes of uninvited guests cover our hillsides.…

Futurism, Rugby, The Winning Fallacy

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Imagination, Rothbard on Rulers, False Imagination

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NVC, Unschooling Dads, The Fallacy of Violent Communication

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A is not B, Another Rothbard Quote, Unknown Processes

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My Seasonal List

“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, pre-TSA world traveler, domestic traveler. Archived columns can be found here. FTC-only RSS feed available here.…

Hardwired Grammar

Nobody asked but … A good friend and spontaneous order guru shared an article on why humans have grammar — it seems to be hardwired.  I think this is implicit also in theories of natural order. We understand ideas by connecting their components serially. If the first order is position, then the second is direction.…

Jazz, Intensification, Prisoner’s Dilemma

Send him mail. “Finding the Challenges” is an original column appearing every other Thursday 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, pre-TSA world traveler, domestic traveler. Archived columns can be found here. FTC-only RSS…