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Pearl Harbor, Truth, And Government

by | Sep 16, 2018 |

Did FDR "do" Pearl Harbor?  Is Global Warming "fake"? Big complicated ideas can be easily framed to one side or another through sophistry.  But what is "truth"? I have been a "obviously the Roosevelt administration sought a policy of provoking Japan into war, but Bob Stinnett's conspiracy theory that FDR specifically knew about Pearl Harbor ahead of time is full of holes" guy for the past couple of years.  I've dipped my head down into this rabbit hole again recently, and have realized something. Evidence - as such - is garbage. Here's what I mean - if you can control evidence, you control...

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Cryptocurrency Has The Same Old Problems

by | Sep 12, 2018 |

I've been thinking of cryptos a lot lately.  It's better than thinking about all this war crap, which is exhausting (you know the kid who does something that makes mommy and daddy laugh, so they do it like 5 more times in a row even though it has long ceased to provoke the original reaction?  that's these Syrian insurgents and the staged chemical attacks). Overall, I find that cryptos suffer from many flaws that money has always had.  By the way, these flaws are what led the world to adopt the current fiat system. In the past, kings have had to use their authority to demand that taxes be...

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Greenwald and Trump’s ‘Saboteur’

by | Sep 6, 2018 |

Glenn Greenwald's commentary on this senior Trump "traitor" is that the people in the White House represent an "unelected cabal". Hey, Trump is a great example of why libertarians don't like democracy.  But you know what libertarians hate more democratically elected tyrants?  Unaccountable tyrants. What a world.

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The Onion Calls It: John McCain Edition

by | Aug 27, 2018 |

So, I think they published this in the "John McCain will die soon but hasn't died yet" phase of the news cycle a couple of days ago.  Still, The Onion killed it. "John McCain Requests His Ashes Be Launched Into Iraq" You know, one last hurrah.  Apropos, when Bush or Cheney kick it, let's send Hans Blix to open their caskets every year to check for WMD.  You know, just to be sure.

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NeoCons Not Ideologues; They’re Just Corrupt

by | Aug 26, 2018 |

Thanks LRC.com for this gem reported at zero hedge.  Russia warns of "chemical provocation" as John Bolton cites intel warning of imminent use of chemical weapons by Assad (or whatever). You know the worst thing about Neo Cons?  It's one thing for American Power to be an evil empire, but these guys have made the USA into a big f-ing joke.  I bet you CNN will take the next chemical attack (if it happens) unironically.  And yet, Russia is already rolling their eyes at it.  And people still think there was no coup in Ukraine, and that Obama's problem was not intervening enough in Syria! The...

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Why Lawyers Are Bad

by | Aug 23, 2018 |

You know the old idea about the difference between the spirit of the law and the letter of the law?  Sure, the letter of the law can help prevent conflict, since the spirit of the law is inherently subjective.  However, something about the spirit of the law connect the idea of the human soul, and the meaning of life.  Justice, fairness, righteousness: these are ideas that come out of the soul, and they are why we care about law. I feel like there's a certain kind of sociopath who lacks that natural human connection to feelings of justice and right-ness.  Thus, this kind of person would be...

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Money Activism! A Big Idea! You Can Help!

Money Activism! A Big Idea! You Can Help!

by | Aug 22, 2018 |

Why isn't America a free market?  Because there's no price mechanism for money. Grand, civilization affecting investment decisions have no coordinating signal to help us know how to coordinate our economic activity.  You libertarians know all about this, and all about the corruption and turf-protecting "Progressivism" that is to blame for this. This is why we don't have a cure for cancer, why there's still poverty, and why we don't live on the Moon. Most libertarians know the solution intuitively: free money.  Right, not free to have, but money free of market distorting constraints.  This is...

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