Why Free Speech Matters

Featured image by Michelle Grewe. Follow the link for more of this artist’s work. I have said before that we must be responsible with our rights. We have the freedoms to speech, assembly, the press, petition, and religion. These freedoms, enshrined in our Constitution, are… or were… meant to be absolute. Congress could not abridge […]

The Illusion of Economic Freedom

Featured image from Business Insider. Follow the link for more info. I love the concept of laissez-faire market capitalism. An individual creates a product or service that they voluntarily exchange with another producer of a product or service for mutual benefit. This benefit creates both wealth and specialization, which allows for larger community groups to […]

Not so different after all

Featured image from Wikipedia. Follow the link for more info. I’ve been listening to the audio books for Orson Scott Card’s Ender’s Game saga over the last few months as I try and keep what sanity remains from the craziness that was 2020, the elections, pandemic, and all of the general anxiety and discord being […]

The Social Media Black Hole

Featured image by Daniel Steelman. Follow the link for more of this artist’s work. Real life is an amazing thing. Of course, right now with all the COVID restrictions in my state, life is a bit challenging at the moment. And depending on how the vaccine rolls out, it may never really be the same […]

Ripples

H.L. Menken was absolutely right when he said that “Democracy is the theory that the American people know what they want and they deserve to get it good and hard.”

An Opinion of an Opinion.

Link to the original article is here, though you’ll have to pay for it. Featured image by senpatientulo. Follow for more of this artist’s work. Gustavo Arellano wrote a piece published in the LA Times that I found through a friend of mine on Facebook. Having a chance to read the article, I will leave […]

Why integrity matters

Featured image from Prabakaran Thirumalai. Follow the link for more images. What we are seeing is the result of a complete lack of integrity. The politicization of everything Covid related during what is arguably the most contested election in this nation’s history hasn’t helped. A media so focused on driving the narrative, inducing panic, fear, […]

Why a National Lockdown won’t work.

For every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction.

A Cali Libertarian’s Frustration

I try to follow Hanlon’s razor for these things, “Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity.” And I think that there is a lot of stupidity in our discourse today.

The Importance of Incentive

Featured Image by Alan Levine. Follow the link for more of their work. Incentive is a powerful motivator. In the simplest sense, it is a reward for desirable behavior. We see this in how we train our pets, how we work, play, and interact with each other. And this can also be seen in our […]