Anti-Immigration Conservatives Get Silly After Boston Bombings

Anti-Immigration Conservatives Get Silly After Boston Bombings

The operational quote is, "The lack of omniscience in human institutions is not a curable flaw." How many 2000 page, unreadable, unread bills need to pass in congress for the groundlings to get that through their heads.

There is no statist remedy for the desperate future of the supremacist dream.

Individualism does not include asking the government to custom fit your personal future to your preferences.

Avery looks at things rightside-up!  Highly and vigorously recommended:

http://www.everything-voluntary.com/2013/05/nobodys-in-control-but-everybodys-in.html


We, as human beings living a life of anarchy (on a daily, practical level), but held back by a gargantuan, yet frail, mirage of insanity called “government,” are in a position to change the world, if we can remember one thing:

Nobody’s in control, but everybody’s in control.

 -- Avery Tolliver

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Another 2000+ Libertarian Quotes

Another 2000+ Libertarian Quotes

Quotes from Thomas Szasz and others concerned with personal freedom and responsibility.

Finding the Challenges -- Language, Collectivism, War

Please go check out my debut as a commentator at Everything-Voluntary.com.

http://www.everything-voluntary.com/2013/03/language-collectivism-and-war.html

Finding the Challenges -- Language, Collectivism, War in which I discuss how the three problems are challenges for humanity, suggesting at least one possible voluntary response to each challenge.

An excerpt:
"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.

Our estimable founder, Skyler Collins, stressed that I should go for positiveness in my debut here at Everything-Voluntary.com. This is quite a challenge for a curmudgeon like me. I have educated myself under the sharpest of tongue, wit, and pen. My heroes are Mark Twain, H. L. Mencken, Kurt Vonnegut, Dorothy Parker, George Carlin, and most currently, Fred Reed, Penn Jillette, and P. J. O'Rourke.

But I have found a little wiggle room in a positive alcove of my psyche. In fact, I believe that the troubadours of scorn, whom I have listed above, are each in his or her individual way actually guides to windows that face the Sun. After all, what is the purpose of a rant if not in hope of seeing things change for the better, of going toward the light. Otherwise, one's grumbling is just a self-service for one's inward entertainment. Just remember that Thomas Paine did not get to his current station in our esteem by telling us what a cool dude George III was.

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The Fear Index by Robert Harris
My rating: 4 of 5 stars

It's easy enough to hypothesize super machine intelligence, then work backward for the details. But there is always a disconnect. An algorithm does not engender something that is essentially different, such as ambition. In fact, one of the attributes of a good algorithm is cohesiveness, the ability to stick with Goal A. And also, wouldn't a super intelligent AI use something a little more sophisticated than bogus e-mail? Lisbeth Salander is way ahead of this rogue computer.


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Schools as Black-Holes by Butler Shaffer

Schools as Black-Holes by Butler Shaffer

It was through the processes of continued inquiry, the refinement of one’s questions, that [one] began to experience the understanding that answers do not provide. Only discovering how to go deeper and deeper into the asking of questions does understanding arise. This is why learning how to think has far greater significance for one’s life than learning what to think.

The U.S. owes an apology to tortured traveler | Detroit Free Press | freep.com

Editorial: Guest commentary: The U.S. owes an apology to tortured traveler | Detroit Free Press | freep.com

Apology, hell!  How about a full and real renunciation of our disastrous foreign policy.  Then, how about jail time for every government agent who participated in this and similar incidents -- regardless of the innocence of the victim.  To pose innocence as a ground for regret is to miss completely the moral bankruptcy that has seized the state.