Savages

Human beings are complicated creatures, capable of both great good and great evil.

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 Rebirth of Responsibility

Featured image by m o n c h o o h c n o m. Follow the link for more of this artist’s work. When we outsource our decision making, we also outsource our liberty. When we depend on others to make our decisions for us, we give up our ability to decide what is […]

Why Freedoms must be absolute.

Featured image by the State Library of New South Wales. Follow the link for more images. I was having a discussion with a coworker about sports, and the topic wound its way to the #MillionMAGAMarch in Washington DC. He went on to say that the protesters were out there to support Trump (who lost). I […]

Why the Senate and Electoral College matter.

Featured Image by Cornell University Library. Follow the link to learn more. Prior to the Constitutional Convention, Thomas Jefferson had put a statement condemning slavery in an earlier draft of the Declaration of Independence. This was removed by the Continental Congress, which was dealing with the larger issue of securing liberty first for the country. […]

Take note of what you say…

This election brought out over 148 million votes, a spectacular level of turnout, regardless of how things turn out. Over a 62% participation in our representative republic.

So now we must be vigilant

I see people as a mixture of their choices and experiences, but ever capable of choosing a new path. I see the world not as a place of perpetual persecution and evil, but as an endless place of possibility.

As it stands

Featured image from Freepik. Follow the link for more images. This election has been wild, and continues to be wild. If all things stay the same, then we hit the nightmare scenario, 269 to 269. I would rather that not happen, even if it meant Biden winning. As I have said before, I have no […]

A decision must be made.

Photo credit to Phillip Goldsberry. Follow the link for more of his work. I will start by saying that if Biden wins, I will respect the win. I will accept that for the next two to four years we’ll live with higher taxes and the expansion of cancel culture, the ease at which we label […]

The inherent problem of political violence

The riots, the burning, the looting, the screeching, the assault, the murder. The fires burning around this country are a cause for concern, if not outright fear. What we’re seeing is a normalization of violence against our political opponents alongside the desensitization of very combative terms such as enemy, criminal, German National Socialist. And yet, […]