Detritus of a Restless Mind – Issue the First?
I’m going to try my hand at a regular submission schedule.
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Category: Opinion
Of Havel’s Greengrocer and His Power
In my first installment, I quoted extensively – and unapologetically – from Vaclav Havel’s brilliant essay, “The Power of the Powerless.“
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Of Havel’s Greengrocer and the Necessity for Ubiquitous Statist Lies
For those who haven’t read it, Havel’s essay is a masterpiece, comparable in its effect and significance to Thomas Paine’s “Common Sense.”
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Making Sense: Utopia, or Nah?
What does an idealistic socialist utopia, the belief in the natural state of humans, behavior modification, and differentiating between True Believers, Opportunists, and the People have in common with making sense of the culture war and decline of the American experiment?
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The Fundamental Freedom
An essay on essential liberty.
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The Code Duello
I’m going to expand on some deep thoughts I presented over at my own web site a couple of years ago.
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A New Way to Understand Politics… (without any politics)
One of the most revealing ways to classify people is by the degree and aggressiveness of their conformism.
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Product Review: reMarkable 2
I often suffer from headaches and acute myopia after long days staring into the loving warm colors of the LCD screen, but don’t suffer the same ailments when, say, reading a book. Can an e-ink screen reduce the strain and discomfort?
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The Care and Feeding Of Your New Wood Chipper
Disclaimer: This article is satire.
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What Are We Reading – October 2020
Been reading anything spooky? Or anything at all?
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In Defense of Not Voting
Various get out the vote campaigns are in action.
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What Are We Reading for August 2020
Well, there is nowhere to go and nothing else to do.
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Cancel Culture: the Christakis and French Definitions
After trying to understand if cancel culture were some new, special, and different thing, I remain at the same place . . .
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Corporations – Arm of the State, Inherently Evil, or Just Uniquely Predatory?
In which R C Dean ponders the limited liability corporation.
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Another Election Day 2020 Theory: Call Me Crazy edition
Some thoughts based upon my own lived experience.
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