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Improbable Dreams of Oppression
Governments are typically built by intelligent people, but always slip into the hands of the merely crafty. Precious great people appear in the history of human government. Modern governments are probably worse than ever in this respect. Sometimes we are … Continue reading
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Tagged culture, government, resistance, survival
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Christian Mysticism and Poverty
I’m poor. It’s popular to say that, but I could show you the numbers indicating my household income is just above the point where I qualify for food stamps. We have been pretty much exempt from state and federal taxes … Continue reading
Gulf Oil Disaster: Does Anybody Really Know?
Obviously, since I’m not an expert on petroleum extraction on any level, there is nothing here which will uncover anything really new. There are some people who know, but we can’t be sure if all those yakking about it really … Continue reading
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Bureaucracy of Death (Updated)
A primary failure of Western Civilization is the removal of the person. We have contracts, not covenants; we don’t even understand the latter. We have laws, not Law. All our wonderfully thought out procedures crash against the rocks of reality … Continue reading
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It’s Not Racism
I won’t bother defining the word “racism.” No matter what I say there are too many who will castigate me from any one of several sides on this issue. What? You didn’t know there could be more than two? The … Continue reading
Outrigger: 13
Krumm hadn’t had much time to mess with it, but he decided it would be a good day to test his ability to connect to his server back in the US. A friend of his who ran the program at … Continue reading
Outrigger: 9
Eventually some of the HTS officers had taken some office space in the building. The women had to wear chadors just to visit the building, so they tended to either avoid the place or stay longer when they came. Krum … Continue reading
Outrigger: 7
Standing before the only truck bay door, the inset necessary to accommodate even the small trucks which could get in to the door sacrificed a good bit of dock floor space. Standing at the far end of warehouse, then, the … Continue reading
Outrigger: 6
Krumm steadied himself and continued digging in one of his bags. He pulled out a pocket-sized electronic device. It had a sliding back which revealed a tiny keyboard. He poked at it a few times, then closed and put it … Continue reading
Outrigger: 4
Rounding a leg of the ridge-line, the switchback revealed a broad valley sweeping down to a much broader one. It was this latter which was their destination. The haze, smoke and dust hanging in the air could not fully obscure … Continue reading