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Traffic Control, Beyond Control, On FTC
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, pre-TSA world traveler, domestic traveler. Archived columns can be found here. FTC-only RSS…
Human Action, Rothbard on Human Action, Empty Symbols
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, pre-TSA world traveler, domestic traveler. Archived columns can be found here. FTC-only RSS…
Futurism, Rugby, The Winning Fallacy
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Words Poorly Used #73 — Debate and Argument
Somebody wake me up when there is a true debate, not some tricked-up reality show imposter. Of course, presidential debates have never been — either presidential or debate. But I have listened to some more formal debates recently. Tom Woods debated Michael Malice on whether Alexander Hamilton was a hero of liberty. And Anthony Gregory…
Re: Violence — Fight or Flight
Nobody asked but … Skyler’s Blog of today, On Violence, called for feedback (so somebody did ask!) This brought to mind the book I am currently reading, The Brothers: John Foster Dulles, Allen Dulles, and Their Secret World War, by Stephen Kinzer. This book describes violence on a massive scale. The Dulles brothers were assassins of…
Climate Change-up
Nobody asked but … I could be wrong. Amiright? Here it is two days before American Thanksgiving and it’s 57 degrees fahrenheit at 2:30pm in Lexington KY. Maybe it’s warmer than usual but maybe not. It seems we’ve had a nice, long Indian Summer, but I also remember most Thanksgivings to be the occasion of…
The Singularity
Nobody asked but … I have very recently been reading The Information: History, Theory, Flood by James Gleick. After having absorbed twice the section on the Turing Machine, the coin has finally dropped after more than a quarter century. I will not attempt to explain the Turing Machine to you, referring instead to a starting…
Words Poorly Used #69 — Fear
Now I learn today, through Jason Stapleton, that some European politico is playing the Fear Card. I paraphrase, “If this refugee crisis continues it will mean the collapse of the European Union!” My first reaction? Please don’t throw us in that briar patch. There are two basic human tendencies, buried in our genetics, fear leading…
Snowden, Rothbard, Seeing the Future
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. Perhaps at…