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Dick Led Me to Yeats
Or perhaps it would make more sense to say that VALIS led me to The Second Coming, and who knows where I will go from there? (Yeah, that headline might possibly be designed to troll for hits.) I discovered this poem - The Second Coming - by W.B. Yeats whilst reading Philip K....
Church, State and Net Neutrality
When the US Constitution was written and approved in 1789, the Christian churches exercised a power over the culture that was at least equal - if not superior to - the power of the central government. For that reason, the culture in which the Constitution was created must be...
Something Beautiful
Awesome video to make Monday beautiful.
The Brilliance of Bastiat on Government
This morning came across this gem from Bastiat on Government. Here, he mocks those who believe in the power of government because they expect it to be ...a beneficent and inexhaustible being, ...which has bread for all mouths, work for all hands, capital for all enterprises,...
Bear-Stearns Plus 6 Years
We're coming up on the six year anniversary of the Bear-Stearns sale to JPMorgan. That was the event that motivated me to dig into the realities of the financial world. I'm preparing a bigger anniversary post for March 16th, (the anniversary of the actual event),but in the...
Libertarian Paternalism: A Response to P. Pilkington
Phillip Pilkington is a research assistant at Kingston University in London and recently penned an article on "Libertarian Paternalism". It provoked me. This is my response. Phillip, In your article, you said: Look, the libertarian paradigm is ridiculous... And then went on to...