Why we must not abandon intent.

Featured image by Derek Σωκράτης Finch. Follow the link for more of this artist’s work. Quick aside before I begin my rant. The featured image title is “Their sole intent is to impress.” Not that it matters much, but in the words of Marge Simpson, One of the things that I am noticing with the […]

Power comes from belief…

Institutions such as government, religion, schools, companies, and families depend upon the belief that those institutions impact your life. This power derives from the buy-in that the people engaging in the institution give it. The more people that buy in, the more power that institution has. And people buy in either voluntarily, or involuntarily. Institutions […]

The New Prohibition

Featured image by Eleanor Jaekel. Follow the link for more of this artist’s work. The 2020’s are wild, man. Twain was credited with saying, We’ve experienced a global pandemic (that’s still… ongoing…), several financial crises, and the return of secret parties (speakeasies). The government is becoming both more incompetent, and less concerned with the lives […]

I shouldn’t be surprised

Featured image by Pierre Blaché. Follow the link for more of this artist’s work. Brian Sicknick was reported to have died from injuries during the capital riot by the New York Times. Now, almost a month later, the Times has issued a correction. Twice, they reported that he was struck in the head with a […]

Why Evidence Matters

The problem is that this is the standard they wish to hold for anyone but themselves, and that the principles of due process and presumption of innocence will be destroyed if you aren’t a member of the party.

The next step

Featured image from Joe Burbank of the AP. Follow the link for the original article. I love Disneyland. It has been shuttered for nearly a year now, and I get news about Disney World on my news feeds. This morning I read a blurb from one of the Disney World feeds that piqued my interest. […]

Supreme Court Will Decide Whether Police Can Enter A Home To Seize Guns Without A Warrant

https://www.forbes.com/sites/evangerstmann/2021/02/05/supreme-court-will-decide-whether-police-can-enter-a-home-to-seize-guns-without-a-warrant/ The latest in the blitzkrieg on our rights. The federal government is taking up the notion that police can use the community caretaking exemptions to the 4th Amendment in order to enter homes without search warrants and size guns. The case cited per the WSJ article said that the wife’s consent was “legally negated” […]

So it was a conspiracy after all…

This is the verbatim transcript of the TIME article that’s been floating around on the various posts. I am copying it here for posterity. This article is copied in its entirety, and I will do a subsequent post to encapsulate my thoughts regarding it. The copy was done from the Time.com website, and the link […]

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 […]