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Soap Opera World

Few people are more deeply enslaved than those who won’t walk away. These days the thing which angers me most is one person seeking to remove the options God granted to others. This ranges between literal physical force all the … Continue reading

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Advertising Slavery

It’s easy to ignore moral principles when it makes you money. Advertising as we experience it today is nothing more than slavery. It’s designed to enslave the choices and wallets of “consumers.” The very choice of the term “consumer” reduces … Continue reading

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Laboring on Labor Day

Our favorite American communist celebration, Labor Day, is tomorrow. Most folks get the day off to celebrate the rise of labor unions. I’ll be working. Today, I discovered what a “weep hole” is on automotive water pumps. It’s an opening … Continue reading

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Disasters Manmade and Natural

My friends in the Northeast tell me Irene wasn’t so strong as she was just full of rain with some wind. Local flooding and power outages abound, but it sounds like the utilities are coming back pretty well. Meanwhile, we … Continue reading

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Laptop Oracles: Sheeple

There must be sheeple. The selection of folks who have some realistic idea how the Internet works is very small, indeed. Fact: The majority of all Internet connections terminate with a machine running some version of Windows poorly configured. The … Continue reading

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The Internet Fire Burns

I’m angry. I’ve had up to my eyes, and it’s time to set them straight, to slap some hands. Curiosity is a human trait; it’s built in and you can’t simply remove it. It can be disabled at great cost … Continue reading

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Moral Economics

To ignore moral considerations in economics is slapping God in the face. He gets tired of it after a while. The symbolism of Babylon is, “Everything has a price, and that’s all that matters.” It’s the bedrock of materialism, that … Continue reading

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Budget in Blood

I was going to save this for tomorrow, but it feels like an elephant lying on top of me. Congress is slated to come up with a fresh federal budget come end of September. That’s next month. By then, the … Continue reading

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Just Another Idiot Chattering about the London Riots

There are so many things wrong on so many levels, I struggle to get started. I’m watching the senseless blather, looking at random photos and videos, along with reading from writers who live there. Since I don’t live in the … Continue reading

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What Kind of Crash

Because I’m a nobody, I can afford to be blunt and say rash things. For example, I refuse to give any Keynesian economist the dignity of being at all sincere or honest believers, unless they are willing to admit they … Continue reading

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