Awful Truth #1: Without freedom of speech, you shall lose all your other rights. [This was my first blog post and includes some minor edits from earlier versions. It may…
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“What poses the greatest threat to our liberty is insult fundamentalism. It presupposes that feeling insulted is accompanied by a special right to react with violence, and it runs all…
I. “Am I dead?” You mean because of the light? “Well…yeah. Why are you smiling?” I’m sorry. No disrespect is intended. Most of you ask that same question. You know: Don’t walk toward the…
Awful truth #26: At some point a tragedy must be tragic. “Oh, how many mothers brandish their fists against the heavens and weep for the drowned sons they hold on…
Awful truth #25: Honest, hardworking adults deserve a decent life. An economic system that fails at this is doomed. “And the companies, the banks worked at their doom and they…
Awful truth #24: Just because technology can do something doesn’t mean it should. “Everyone believes in virtue, but who practices it?” —Balzac, Old Goriot “Scandals used to lend charm,…
[This is from an unpublished work, Bonfire of the Inanities, which was written in response to the BLM craziness that erupted after the death of George Floyd.] I offer what I…
“All gone as if it never was.” Log 12-345-FGV Additional artifacts were found on a frozen landmass near the planet’s equator. These indicate a high degree of technological advancement compared to…
“The rat has an excuse. As far as we know, it does not appear to have developed a soul, or that intangible quality of justice, mercy, and reason.” —Hans Zinsser,…