The Shielding Approach

Featured image by Gary Todd. Follow the link for more of this artist’s work. I generally am skeptical of conspiracy theories. When someone tells me about this thing being connected to some larger group of people that are given near god-like powers, I tend to disbelieve. Real-life tends to be much more boring than the […]

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 […]

Prelude to an inquisition

Featured image from Britannica.com. Follow the link for more information. Historians are going to look back at the early 2020’s with profound amazement, wondering how and why the people living in that time didn’t recognize the rise of new authoritarian, and if things are left unchecked, totalitarian rules and systems. There is historical precedent for […]

A house divided…

Featured image by Alan Levine. Follow the link for more of this artist’s work. It feels like we’ve watched a car wreck, a fire, or an explosion over the last week. Attached is the text of the House Divided Speech from the National Park Service, follow the link for the original source material. I am […]

How Dystopia Begins

Featured image by Colton Vond. Follow for more of this artist’s work. For all the flash and flare that a dystopian cyberpunk world seems to get, the reality is that the descent into dystopia is both sudden and subtle. The banning of a president while still in office, the purging of social media accounts for […]

An American Reichstag Fire

Many people believe that these types of things could never happen to this country, that somehow our existence and history transcends the patterns and desires of human nature.

So it begins.

If the American People wish to have any semblance of a country left, they must tell the people who think that it is acceptable to storm the capital loudly and collectively “NO.”

And we’re supposed to be grateful.

Featured image by Alabama Extension. Follow the link for more… We’re getting another payment… yippee… I hope you can recognize the sarcasm in my writing. After months of back and forth “negotiations,” Congress has finally passed a second economic stimulus, promising payments of $600 for each adult making up to $75,000 (or $150,000 for married […]

Why standards matter

Featured image from Know Your Meme. Follow the link for more info. I was poking around on social media as I do seemingly more and more as an observer rather than a poster. Many more of my posts either deal with other, innocuous things, or they link to my blog here. I’ve grown more and […]