End of the Golden Age

We are leaving the third and entering the fourth cycle. And I pray that it is a short cycle.

Tools

Watch closely friends, the party is just getting started.

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 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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

Why Intersectionality will fail, and drag everyone down with it.

Featured image by Simon Jowett. Follow the link for more of this artist’s work. Intersectionality is a powerful tool that is being used in today’s politics. By breaking down the immutable characteristics of an individual into the various intersections of race, sex, perceived gender, ethnic origin, sexual preference/orientation, etc., one can completely reshuffle the existing […]

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 […]