I’m listening to the audiobook by Matt Kibbe, Don’t Hurt People and Don’t Take Their Stuff. It is an excellent book, but my feathers ruffled just a bit when I heard the phrase, “duly elected.” Due in what sense? In the real world, natural phenomena are due to natural events. What goes up, must come…
Tag: scotus
Elite
Even if you can find the one elite who sets a million mites to work on a billion fleas who will infest a trillion dog’s tails, there is another elite starting a similar chain of chains of chains, a nanosecond before and a nanosecond after.
Scalia and the Constitution, Rothbard #14, Arguing Labels
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An Open Letter to the LGBT Community
This was written by a friend, Aaron Batten, on his Facebook wall: Dear LGBT Community, I have been quite surprised at the overall support I’ve seen for the SCOTUS decision on same-sex marriage. Even five years ago, I don’t think the support would have been there. It’s a cultural change I believe is refreshing. Even…
On SCOTUS II
The recent SCOTUS ruling on gay marriage has the very real effect of forcing States, Counties, Cities, Townships, and other political bodies to license and recognize same-sex marriages within the United States. Is it not conceivable that this ruling will also force non-political bodies to recognize same-sex marriages? Bodies like businesses and churches. Should it?…
On SCOTUS
Those that feel anything toward the SCOTUS ruling on so-called “gay marriage” feel quite strongly one way or the other. Many are lamenting the decision, while many others are celebrating it. Frankly, I’m disgusted by both sides. Why shouldn’t gays be allowed to marry? Mind your own business, I say. Just as importantly, why should…
Complexity, Stasis, and Duality
Send him mail. “Finding the Challenges” is an original bi-weekly 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…