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Take a trip through time. View reasoning or criticisms of centralized power from one epoch and compare and contrast them against those of other epochs. Enjoy integrating them where it's possible to do that without forming a contradiction. Allow history to inform your judgments of the current policies and procedures of current administrations of current governments. Should we do any less than that? (Read the entire blog entry)

A chronological list of highly-relevant quotes (Read the entire blog entry)

LeRoi Moore, the saxophonist for the Dave Matthews Band, died of complications from an ATV accident. My first reaction was, oh well, I guess Dave is the songwriter, so they'll just replace LeRoi. Then I remembered the song Proudest Monkey off the Crash album and I started crying. If you haven't heard it, go buy... (Read the entire blog entry)

A string of videos with Yaron Brook giving a talk about how the government is at fault for our economic woes. It was from April, before Fannie and Freddie went down the tubes. (Read the entire blog entry)

Altruist-collectivist hawks are required to get welfare-warfare statism get off the ground in a nation. They find myriad ways to justify altruism, collectivism, and perpetuated wars. Here's good evidence that William F. Buckley was that kind of a person. (Read the entire blog entry)

Was Palin chosen, at least in part, to stop the voting for a spoiler? And what is the major advantage of placing what might be a spoiler vote? Dr. Lester H. Hunt's blog has a some interesting thoughts... (Read the entire blog entry)

Interesting ways to make a living. (Read the entire blog entry)

Personal blogs are stored thought -- thinking out loud about something you feel is important. Some folks feel that "love" is either fundamentally mysterious, or something that you can't get any better at by thinking about or understanding it better than you did before; they'll react negatively to the following guidelines for becoming a more loving person (though, for some reason, they might not react negatively to these same behaviors if they were personified in the fictional characters of a novel!) (Read the entire blog entry)

More current events out of the Dark Ages. (Read the entire blog entry)

What lessons can I learn from these experiences to calibrate my skill at characterizing quickly the new people I meet?  While I dislike making harsh snap judgments, I dislike squandering my precious time even more.  So in the interest of getting back to basics, let me point to SuperSelf by Charles Givens. (Read the entire blog entry)