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...
Life After Death? Hmmmm..

Life After Death? Hmmmm..

“Life’s Short. Heaven is Forever” – I saw these words on the back of a Hyundai as I drove back from lunch at Lobbys Burgers, (2 stars for food, 2 stars for atmosphere, 4 stars for the website). I rhetorically asked the driver, “How do you...
Life After Death? Hmmmm..

Buy High Sell Low

Buy High Sell Low Lessons and Warnings for Beginning Traders You will lose money when you first start trading; it is unavoidable. But will you lose just a little or a lot? The lessons I share in this book cost me about $50,000, but they’ll cost you only the price of a...
Supernova

Supernova

From my journal: March 2, 2012 I think a lot about the difference between the way the world is and the way we humans think it should be. We all – mostly – agree about how it should be: people should treat others the way they want to be treated. But the...
Random Thoughts on Atheism

Random Thoughts on Atheism

Last week I wrote about my complaints against Faith. Now I take the other side. I have a few complaints against Athiesmm which is kinda “the Thing” in the crowds I run with. My frustration with religion in general and Xianity in particular has its locus in...
Random Thoughts on Faith

Random Thoughts on Faith

I was taught in Bible class that faith was a gift from God. That means, “if you have faith, it is because God gave it to you, not because you did something to create it in yourself.” Ergo, people of faith have faith because it was given to them; nor is it...