Another 2000+ Libertarian Quotes
Quotes from Thomas Szasz and others concerned with personal freedom and responsibility.
Wednesday, March 20, 2013
Another 2000+ Libertarian Quotes
Another 2000+ Libertarian Quotes
Quotes from Thomas Szasz and others concerned with personal freedom and responsibility.
Thursday, March 14, 2013
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.
Use the link above to read more ...
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.
Use the link above to read more ...
Saturday, February 2, 2013
The Fear Index by Robert HarrisMy 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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Tuesday, January 29, 2013
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.
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.
Thursday, June 7, 2012
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.
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.
Where Is The Outrage? by Judge Andrew P. Napolitano on Creators.com - A Syndicate Of Talent
Where Is The Outrage? by Judge Andrew P. Napolitano on Creators.com - A Syndicate Of Talent
The Judeo-Christian and constitutionally mandated relationship between government power and individual liberty is not balance. It is bias — a bias in favor of liberty. All presumptions should favor the natural rights of individuals, not the delegated and seized powers of the government. Individual liberty, not government power, is the default position because persons are immortal and created in God's image, and governments are temporary and based on force. -- Judge Andrew P. Napolitano
The Judeo-Christian and constitutionally mandated relationship between government power and individual liberty is not balance. It is bias — a bias in favor of liberty. All presumptions should favor the natural rights of individuals, not the delegated and seized powers of the government. Individual liberty, not government power, is the default position because persons are immortal and created in God's image, and governments are temporary and based on force. -- Judge Andrew P. Napolitano
Monday, April 16, 2012
Hitler's Coming!
Hitler's Coming!
"After the war, it was demonstrated that Germany had no plans, desires, or capability to attack the United States. This was obvious even before the war to those who looked at the situation with a critical eye. Just as Churchill’s actions cannot be explained as reasonable when looked at from the viewpoint of the average Brit, Roosevelt’s actions cannot stand better to scrutiny. He, too, seemed to be working for a different master – not the American people. Again, your guess is as good as mine as to who." -- bionic mosquito
"After the war, it was demonstrated that Germany had no plans, desires, or capability to attack the United States. This was obvious even before the war to those who looked at the situation with a critical eye. Just as Churchill’s actions cannot be explained as reasonable when looked at from the viewpoint of the average Brit, Roosevelt’s actions cannot stand better to scrutiny. He, too, seemed to be working for a different master – not the American people. Again, your guess is as good as mine as to who." -- bionic mosquito
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