America has the leadership it deserves, and when this country finally finishes its thrashing, shrieking, pitiful death throes, hopefully ignorant, lazy people will know enough to stay the hell out of its government, for their own sake.
Two news items to consider together: Bin Laden’s Goal is to bankrupt the USA, and the USA needs to raise the federal debt ceiling by $1.9 trillion just to function next year To be honest, we didn’t even fight this one like we wanted to win it.
Everyone can see how strong the political currents are flowing today; our president can’t even tell kids to stay in school without a major brouhaha in the media and among the American people. But why this upsurge in political activism and outrage? It’s easy to make ignorant speculations without really knowing anything (RACISM!), but a [...]
“Who can be a failure in so many ways, instead of getting fired we’ll give ourselves a raise… the government can!” Causality is a tricky thing. Understanding why an event happens after the fact can be difficult and even impossible, given the complexity of reality, and given that any small contingency can have a massive [...]
“Do not be too timid and squeamish about your actions. All life is an experiment.” -Emerson I’ll go one step further and say that all lives are experiments. There are endless infinities standing before us, paths leading through life in every possible way; each of us is here to try one of them. There are [...]
Paper currency: for decades the US dollar has been off of the gold standard, in other words it doesn’t have any intrinsic worth. It’s just paper. As long as the dollar has been detached from the gold standard, the US has in effect been betting on its reputation. It has, with characteristic hubris, taken on monumental [...]