tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-54847992012-01-28T15:46:20.909-06:00There is no law-maker but nature. And YOU are her prophet.Alhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12200768634540999752noreply@blogger.comBlogger26271100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5484799.post-29679027693986485812012-01-20T15:11:00.000-06:002012-01-20T15:11:03.956-06:00

If you know what I mean. Fun stuff from the Mises Institute FAQ: Are you conservative, libertarian, anarchist, socialist, or what? We are Misesians! The media will typically describe all non-socialists as conservatives, so we are usually lumped in among them, though the actual orientation of the Institute is libertarian. This designation can encompass a wide range of thought from Jeffersonian

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I had a thought: if everybody listened to the anarcho-capitalist message, nobody would volunteer to die for powermongers' BS arguments. That pretty much is the message: don't cooperate in your own (or anyone else's) murder.

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I've talked about it before, actually. I'll track that down later. Here's a definition of shibboleth. I have to say that I don't like definitions 2 and 3; they seem more like ignorant misuses than I care to see. Notice that the examples are all of those 2. There must be better words for what they're trying to say. Amusingly, I'm using the word in a fashion similar to the Gileadites. (Well.

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The Friendly Polymath.

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The Great Metaphor for the collective actions of humanity in the absence of aggression. That's the though I had when I read this passage of The Hero with a Thousand Faces, by Joseph Campbell (p. 241, hardcover): In mythology, whenever the Unmoved Mover, the Mighty Living One, holds the center of attention, there is a miraculous spontaneity about the shaping of the universe. The elements

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Very nice article here. Are your robes clean?

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Libertarianism is the philosophy that all bullying is wrong. A thought I had while listening to Porc Therapy. It works better on Facebook. I wanted the link in there, though.

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It's called "A Toast to Lysander Spooner". There's other good stuff on that page that explain 'our' perspective as well. Well, crud. I tried to post the audio directly, but it doesn't seem to work.

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in years anyway. Havel beat him in value produced for humanity as well. I was thinking about why they ousted Havel. I think I'll have something to say, later. Lynx schminx.

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football analogies is that there's no clock in this game. And no boundaries to the field - the stands, the locker room, the parking lot and the road from your house to the field are all in bounds. But it would certainly be unwise to completely ignore your point, Mr. Callahan - you've earned your bona fides [link to a pdf of his book there]. The theory has to explain the anomalies.

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Highest Law of the Land, ya'll! [No, not rap. Actually the radio's playing the sappiest collection of holiday songs (not Christmas Carols) you ever heard. Probably why my inner Gangsta Rappa has taken over my keyboard.]

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Standing Up for Children

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Diogenes of Aonoanda (say that five times fast): Having already reached the sunset of my life (being almost on the verge of departure from the world on account of old age), I wanted, before being overtaken by death, to compose a fine anthem to celebrate the fullness of pleasure and so to help now those who are well-constituted. Now, if only one person or two or three or four or five or six or any

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This guy. Though I agree with the core of his argument that the compromise between the right and left ain't gonna get you anything you want and(/or) that half the centrists just aren't paying attention and shouldn't even vote. He didn't say that, I did. Do. The anti-partisan story is a seductive myth, and a dangerous one. Those who represent themselves as standing in the center have their own

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(if that's proper English). The kids are getting bigger and taking longer turns on the computer is probably the biggest thing. So I get on at 10:00 after dealing with more mundane matters for several hours (or watching TV or reading a book), and by the time I've worked up an opinion on something I'm too tired to think of anything worth saying. I bought all the Heroes DVDs and watched three

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in my memory. I thought I was looking downstream, but what did I know? I wasn't even three. That would have been the Winter of '65. We lived right near the mouth of the river in a small cabin. There was a rotting rope bridge across the river. Unbelievably (perhaps), I crossed that thing once. My tiny feet were enough to break some of the boards. I tried several times. Once, I walked out

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Gracefully, or (as in my case) otherwise. These guys love what they're doing.

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From Syndical Syndrome in Mises Daily: Tuesday, October 18, 2011 Of the three major proposals for running an advanced industrial society — socialism, syndicalism, and free-market capitalism — syndicalism is the most blatantly unworkable and most rapidly disastrous. For in such a society, there must be some rational mechanism for allocating resources efficiently, for seeing to it that the proper

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about 8 minutes after I started this blog. I wasn't ready to accept their anti-war, pro-immigrant positions - at least, not to the extremes they take them. I repent of my pusillanimity. Here's some Hornberger: Additional message to statists: Even if you succeeded in building a solid wall along the Southern border — one that was better fortified than the Berlin Wall ever was — and even if it

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to watch the Packers. I caught 10 minutes of the game two weeks ago (when I got home from the marathon), but otherwise I haven't been thinking about football. Now that it actually feels and looks like Fall outside - not to mention the fact that they've got a 5-0 record and the best quarterback I've had the pleasure of watching in my life (sorry Brett) - I'm starting to feel like it's time for

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As Obama Goes Abroad Searching for Monsters to Destroy, Ron Paul Rightly Rejects Assassinating Americans “I don’t think that’s a good way to deal with our problems,” Paul said in New Hampshire. “Al-Awlaki was born here; he is an American citizen. He was never tried or charged for any crimes. Nobody knows if he killed anybody. We know he might have been associated with the underwear bomber. But if

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My results are here. And in case you don't feel like clicking over there, here: My feet were killing me after the race, but they're fine now. Now I just have tire legs - nothing unusual. Analysing the splits, I see that I was speeding up through the Half, then I slowed down quite a bit. The second half took me 2:43:14. The splits are goofy after that, though the last 10K (20M to the end)

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The Gold Report, Sept. 27: TGR: If panic erupts on the U.S. dollar, would products manufactured in the U.S. become super-cheap or super-expensive? DC: They would become super-cheap. Everybody says that devaluing the dollar will stimulate U.S. industry because the products will become cheaper and foreigners will buy them. This is a huge canard everybody repeats and nobody thinks about. Yes, it is

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I wasn't feeling much like celebrating. I was kinda feeling like H.L. Mencken must have been feeling when he wrote this.

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A new translation, by the Mises Institute. You might enjoy seeing page one: I took a screenshot of the pdf. It looks like I chopped off the bottom, but that's all the info on the page, except for the page number.

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I'll just print his front page blurb: Be a part of the solution. Lives in the Balance is the non-profit organization founded by child psychologist Dr. Ross Greene, author of The Explosive Child and Lost at School, and originator of the Collaborative Problem Solving (CPS) approach. This website contains a ton of information – streaming video, an extensive Listening Library, and a boatload of

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Right here! Or, maybe it'd behoove me [you've never seen me in hooves] to do this:

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Sanford Ikeda explains the proper uses of micro- and macroeconomics. The first commenters said something that roused a thought: But in the overall “Macro” economic world, the drag of the Welfare State and the Warfare State has led to the economic problems we have today. There are just too many non-producers. Too many wars,too many Welfare Recipients,too many Social Security recipients,too many

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Sounds like somebody worth studying.

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Woman who recorded cops acquitted of felony eavesdropping charges

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http://www.demos.co.uk/press_releases/parentingbingedrinking I got that from Stef who got it from the Daily Mail who got it from Demos. The Demos article is the best. It actually defines the parenting styles discussed. Stef just gave the link and the Daily Mail's summary of the summary isn't informative enough. It might even be a little misleading. I think it is, without this:

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August 2, 2011 Mises Daily Why Capitalism Is Worth Defending by Anthony Gregory on August 2, 2011 [LewRockwell.com, July 29, 2011] As Obama demonizes the wealthy and pitches a dozen plans to restructure the economy, opponents of this program need a reminder of what exactly we're fighting for. We are resisting bureaucracy, central planning, and encroachments on our freedom and communities.

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Had another interesting dream - probably about a month and a half ago, actually. I walked up to this big house - kind of my "dream house" (as opposed to merely a house in this dream): fachwerk, stucco - and went in the door. My father and elder relatives were in the basement, gutting it, presumably in preparation for renovation. I could see most of the basement from the landing inside the door

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The Europeans are all on vacation... I'm thinkin', "Hey! Me too!" No, not really. I kinda wanted to leave that post about Dan on top for a while. I was on vacation last week, but I used the time catching up on my reading - two Jung books and a fantasy novel - and yard work. Started to clean the house, but then we went up to the Lake. I towed the girls across the bay and back. They were on

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Dan Leroy died this morning. I don't have all the facts yet. I'll find out more after work. He was the best story-teller I've known.

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I do. Link. Running stuff. Edit (much later - time for bed, in fact): I watched it, favorited it on Youtube and posted the link on Facebook. [Wait. Will that embed it here? Oh, no it won't. Good. You know, on the old preview page, you could click the links to see if they worked.] For two and a half minutes of this video, you get to watch all these young, good-lookin' people. Then

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OMG, that was a b****! Road running is inadequate preparation for trail running. I may say more later about it, but I'm still effin' shot from it. They've got the preliminary results here. I'm at the bottom of the second page. I prefer to think that I was 98th out of the 169 who entered, rather than the 99 who finished. Oh, actually I was 96th out of 97 finishers. Awesome description of

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What would a real libertarian tell those who've counted on Social Security and Medicare being there when they get old? What I've always told them: it's a hard, cruel world, but when you've allowed yourself to be conned out of your life's savings, your more intelligent, less gullible neighbors—not to mention your own grandchildren—have no obligation of any kind to make you whole again. Not out of

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Link Wikileaks may help some people shake off the shrouds of indoctrination, which is great for them… but real change does not start there. Real change starts when you make changes to your actions in your personal life. Going to therapy, getting good relationships, working to know yourself, acting with courage, being honest with yourself, acting in ways that evoke self-pride… these are the

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by Nina Paley. Watch it here. It's the story of Rama's wife Sita and the difficulties of their marriage. Nina Paley, if you weren't aware of her, is otherwise famous for Copying is not Theft. There are four levels of animation in the movie, which are used as themes for different story lines ...and such. The levels run from crude to incredibly stunning.

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Some hellacious tornadoes hit the midwest Sunday. Joplin was just destroyed. I like that town. We go through there at least once a year on the way to Mom's. My co-worker's in-laws live real close to there, too. I hate to say it, but it was hard to take it seriously until tonight when I jogged through some of the damage from the one that went through North Minneapolis. A lot of big trees

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And I missed it! I meant to ask my brother-in-law about that, but I forgot. It's for the best, I suppose. It'd be pretty hard to bring that up without coming off as gratuitously insulting.

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It took me four hours and forty-nine minutes, but I got it done. I consider that not too bad for a training run. Keep in mind that I'm training for a 50K. It kinda sucks that I'll have to throw away Grandma's Marathon as a training run, but it looks like I may be able to do that in around five hours, so it's not a complete loss. Who knows? Maybe there's something about that course that'll

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Legs had no problem, but my lungs didn't want to go any faster. I'm not at all sure now why I didn't kick harder at the end. Once again, I left some juice on the table. [Mixed metaphor, really, but it kinda works.]

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I have proof! Notice the feet!

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is available as a free audio book! It's a great story about a guy building a grain elevator back in the 1890s. LibriVox recording of Calumet "K", by Samuel Merwin and Henry Kitchell Webster. Read by Betsie Bush. "A novel, with several elements of rather unusual interest. As a tale, it is swift, simple, and absorbing, and one does not willingly put it down until it is finished. It has to do

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The Austrian School of Economics I'm just looking it over. Here's a nice quote from the preface: Based on the assumption that the individual was the decisive economic agent, and thus centering its research on individual preferences and on the intersubjective balancing of these preferences in the context of markets, the Austrian school has consistently pointed to the fact that institutions such

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You may have to hang out in some odd corners to get this guy's bit, but I think anyone can understand this one. Hey! Atlas Shrugged opens Friday!

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is an important contribution to the development of interpersonal and world peace. The Wikipedia article on him looks like a good place to start studying him and his works. And here's the article on Nonviolent Communication.

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I thought I'd quote a bit from the intro to Raising Our Children, Raising Ourselves: When you have the courage to stop defending the way you are, or the way your parents raised you, you can open up to the possibility that you are much greater and more magnificent and capable than you thought you were.

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has a helpful page - they call it a toolbox.  Here's one that I use a lot myself: Fear — use it if you get it. Don’t live in fear, but use it. The same goes for horror, shame, regret or any other negative thoughts or feelings that may come when you think about your drinking days. Don’t stifle or deny these states of mind. Use them as tools to reinforce yourself, not stumbling blocks.Maybe I

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I'll link her own webpage - the articles page - but her videos on YouTube are great stuff too. Progressive Parenting: get with it.  (Don't confuse true progress with that proto-Nazi crap Presidents Wilson and both Roosevelts were pushing.)

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Mourn. If that's the case, you're probably raising (or already did raise) your kids wrong. Apologize and make amends. Here's how.  To do the latter, not the former.

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Back in the early '80s and I came across some pics of myself that kind of blew me away. I guess I always thought I always had the gut I have now.  I mean, yeah, it was bigger a couple times - and pretty huge when I was guzzling gallons of beer daily - but I saw it as pretty big even back before I graduated high school. I find these pics rather inspirational!  I believe I'll go exercise more.

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Seems pretty cool.  It's nice to be able to speed up Youtube videos. It's free.  Here's their website: http://gofree.com/download/Video/Media-Players/vlcmediaplayer.php?gclid=CI_o_r3QzKcCFZFoKgodU27dFQ

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But I'm not ready!!

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The nest fits him not for eternity. -Rhyme R Us. It's likely that this couplet has been written before, but I claim to have come up with it independently. I like the double meanings in the archaic form. I said this to my daughter this morning. She took her gloved hand off the doorknob and, rather flatly, asked, "What does that mean?" "What do you think it means?" "Uh...Leaving the

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from Reimarus, "Contradiction is a devil and father of lies, who refuses to be driven out either by fasting and prayer, or by miracles." Pg. 76. It's a quick read. I've gotten this far since 9:00. About half the book. You might want to look to the WikiPedia article to find out who Reimarus was. Guess I'd better go to bed now.

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To Build a Fire. It was 1°F and snowing lightly when I headed out at 11:15 AM. Not windy at all. It was supposed to warm up into the teens sometime, so I expected to benefit from that before I was done, so I didn't bother with the balaclava or the strip of polar fleece I tie around my face to protect my nose and cheeks. And I didn't wear the safety vest, because it was daylight. Everything

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He won't be at the reunion, though. He's different now, though. I guess being reincarnated as an orange has mellowed him out and made him funnier.

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The guys organizing it sent out a list of everybody so they can update their info. Looking at all the names of all the girls I had crushes on, but was too shy to do anything about... Going down that list, I had the hots for darn near all them at one point or other. One of them lives quite close here, it appears. Actually too close to make her place a destination for a long run. Wait,

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A little song can change the world. Though, I can't think of one of yours that would have. Look at what Sara Bareilles did. I want everyone armed with King of Anything. How long has it been out, and what's been going on in the world during that time?

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No, just one simple meaning.

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Grandma's Marathon in Duluth on June 18th and the Afton 50K Trail Run on July 2nd. Grandma's will actually function as a training run for the latter. Just so you know, a Marathon is about 42K; a 50K is an ultramarathon. I mean, sure, the big boys in ultramarathoning consider it a weenie race, but I kind of think it's a big deal. You should see the altitude profile of this thing: up, down,

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Yes, in the middle of the godawful cold of the coldest weeks of a godawfully cold winter. Ya bundle up. And don't try to set any records. I've been running about every other day, averaging about four miles per run, since the 14th. Actually the every other day thing bounced me over the 24-below day, so I didn't have to decide whether to skip a run or not that day. The two 'abouts' a couple

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From her book Banished Knowledge. This comes from chapter 2, "Innocence of the Parents," page 34 of the paperback, after a quote from a book by Phil Donahue, in which he is his usual, "even-handed," "moderate" self: Although Donahue's discussion ostensibly proceeds from the question of which parental behavior might exert a traumatizing and lasting effect on the child, and although it would appear

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I gotta know! If so, I gotta get me some!

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And make sure you see his video on grief. Edit: I'm going to give a quick summary of IFS, for those who can't or won't watch the video: don't just accept every notion that pops into your head as the be-all and end-all of wisdom. Question them carefully to see if they coincide with what you really want to do (or say or think). That inner critic is often the internalized voice of some

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Test blog 1: Top 5 Political Videos 2010

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I'm putting it here because it's important enough that it needs to be available even to my readers who can't download Adobe Acrobat or don't want to take the time to read through back issues of FEE's magazine, The Freeman. Oh, actually, here it is in plain text. Well, I'm still going to take the chance that somebody won't like me having the full text here. Full Context Peripatetics BY SHELDON

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Went to Mom's for Christmas. Actually, we mostly stayed at my sister's new house. Quite a lovely place. Forgot the camera, so no pictures. All happy, cozy stuff. Didn't fight about anything, though I did have a medium-length conversation with my mother about my acceptance of the lack of evidence for gods. I don't know which of us was responsible for redirecting the conversation onto how the

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I didn't, but I'm sick.

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I used this one in a conversation with my daughter the other day, she asked me what it meant and I realized that I don't remember ever having looked it up: co·gent   /ˈkoʊdʒənt/ Show Spelled [koh-juhnt] Show IPA –adjective 1. convincing or believable by virtue of forcible, clear, or incisive presentation; telling. 2. to the point; relevant; pertinent. Use cogent in a Sentence See images of

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at this point. That cone of snow on the left is taller than I am. I was standing in the bed of my stepson's truck to take the picture. It's FWD, so the camera was up about 9 feet. Here's the snow depth. I'd say that's pretty respectable for down here. This pic is a companion to my weather report over here. But that was settled snow a week after the storm. Here we've added five inches of

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And an eclipse as well!  A lunar eclipse, though it will begin well after midnight.  But that's when our snowstorm is supposed to end, so maybe some night owls will be able to see it.  Since my soul was apparently born somewhere off the west coast, it's quite possible that I'll be up. I'm not sure who these people are - the article appears to have been translated from Chinese - but they say: The

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I don't know what the high was, but it's frickin' 9 right now. At least we won't be shocked by anything we see in January, eh? I was readin' Germanic Myths and Legends the other day. I'm not now, because I have no idea where I set it down. Oh, here it is! Right behind me. German Myths and Legends, rather, by Donald A MacKenzie.  German mythology is the same as Norse mythology because the only

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Prob'ly shoulda said somethin' this mornin'.  (That's closer to how I really talk.  You could take out the 'th's too, actually, but I didn't 'cause I figured the words needed to be somewhat recognizable.) I did some thinking about the First Amendment today.  It pretty much says that you can think anything you want about anything and say whatever you want by any means you want and the government

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Actually, I think it's the biggest one of the century, so far. Chopping from the comments on the previous post: I've been shoveling the driveway since 9:30. Oh, I stopped for half an hour to drive the truck around and let the wind blow the giant drift off it. Can't park in the garage right now; there's a sauna in it...in pieces. I still have about a third of the driveway to clear. I just came

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I stuck my camera out the front door and snapped a couple pictures.  Wanna look?

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It would undoubtedly be helpful to read the examples he describes at the beginning of the article, but this is very clear even without them: Now despite countless instances like these that we all regularly encounter in our market activities, most people still take for granted the view that costs of production basically determine prices. Furthermore, they believe that if prices greatly exceed

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Time for another swipe at the old mythology. Here's a bit of Ebenezer Scrooge and Economic Freedom by Russell D. Longcore Look at the headlines coming out of Washington today. The DC criminals wish to punish the wealthy for accumulating wealth, while it works to lighten the tax burden on the poor and middle class. Belle must have been a closet Socialist, since she had no respect for Scrooge's

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Not to mention, evil. Apparently they don't really believe in Jesus. What does Jesus say about how to behave in battle? People join the military (and police forces) to defend their family and friends from enemies, foreign and domestic. That's a very noble motive, no question about it. But that's not really what our military is up to. Our soldiers (and policemen) are the cutting edge of our

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From Bryan Caplan's Anarchist Theory FAQ: If everyone drives on the right side of the road, isolated attempts to switch to the left side will be dangerous and probably unsuccessful. But if everyone drives on the left side of the road, the same danger exists for those who believe that the right side is superior and plan to act on their believe. Similarly, it is quite possible that given that a

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My daughter found this in the yard. It's dated July, but that's no guarantee that that's when the picture was taken.  She took the picture and that's her hand.

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All the adjectives in the trailer here are dead on. Foremost, it's a hilarious movie. I'd go see it if I were you.

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Mom, Jeremy Won't Let Me Create An Atmosphere Of Sustained Menace By Daniel Gellman. Read it all the way to the bottom.

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Kenneth E. Hartman, "The Trouble With Prison": Most prisoners are uneducated, riddled with unresolved traumas and ill-treated mental health problems, drug and alcohol addictions, and self-esteem issues that are beyond profound, bordering on the pathological far too often. The vast majority has never received competent health care, mental health care, drug treatment, education or even an

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from AntiWar.com: The TSA can conduct a full-body search, prison-style, on everyone who gets near an airport: we can lock down the country, and treat everyone like a potential criminal, conducting random searches on the streets like they’re already doing in New York City. We can turn the country into one big prison yard, and still the terrorists will get through, eventually. They’ll get through

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Our dog.

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I found this thanks to Arther Silber's article, "All You Know Are Lies": The US rate of unemployment, if measured according to the methodology used in 1980, is 22.5%. Even the government’s broader measure of unemployment stands at 17%. The 9.6% reported rate is a concocted measure that does not include discouraged workers who have been unable to find a job after 6 months and workers who want full

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is available as a free download here. Get it and read it. There is nothing more important that I could say right now. Acrobat Reader will even read it to you if you prefer.

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here that I need to deal with later. Nope. I was mistaken. I figured some Homer Price fan must have a more singable version of "42 pounds of edible fungus" than I do. I get the impression that they do, but they're not singing it on YouTube. This gal's got the lyrics.

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Against somebody who's too smart for it, check out the discussion to this post.

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From Stef's new book, Against the Gods: Historically, the word “God” has never meant, “things that may exist in other dimensions of the multiverse, as described by modern physics.” “God” has never referred to some unknowable X factor, Schrödinger's cat, the unified field theory, the cosmic craps player so derided by Einstein, or any of the other trappings of modern science. No, let's not empty

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[That's my blog, spammer.  There's no committee or team here.  Although, for a while, invadesoda was posting here.]  for what I've said about the Bill of Rights.  You should too.  Here's a link to the full listing.

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I ran a 4 mile race today. I've never raced that distance before, so whatever my time was was a PR [personal record]. I did it in 34:53. I think, let's see if I can double check that. Not yet, at least. It was the PACER 1st Annual Run/Walk/Roll Against Bullying. I was looking for a 5K, but the cause and the location - supremely beautiful Normandale Lake in Bloomington (MN, for those wandering by

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Well, I'm quoting him again here, anyway. He hasn't really gone away. His last couple of articles have really kicked butt. Oh, I guess I've only read two of the last four - the second and the fourth of these: If You’re Not an Extremist, You’re Not Paying Attention Posted by Kevin Carson in Commentary • No comments Kevin Carson says America’s real owners need a population just smart enough to

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