June 29, 2010
This is a follow up to my previous blog post about the perceptions of Libertarianism, and specifically how Libertarian ideas compare and contrast with Socialism.
The blog generated a couple questions:
What do we do about those who would gain wealth by exploitation?
How does the free market mitigate greed and corruption?
Before I get to those, I want to make a point about the perceptions we sometimes allow ourselves to have of other people. I don't think I have ever met anyone, Socialist or Libertarian, who isn't searching for ways to improve the world. As a Libertarian, I am disappointed when I am called to defend exploitation as my world view. I assure you that it is not.
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June 26, 2010
Melissa is at a CFI training retreat in New York. CFI is Center For Inquiry, which promotes reason and logic in the face of, well, so much of the opposite in the world today. For some reason, the word for the people on the other side of reason in this group has become "Libertarian", as in: .. then there are people who reject science and reason and the accepted truth of global warming, you know,...
April 09, 2010
So far I have sold seven copies of my Kindle collection of short stories for total of $3.43. After 14 more sell, Amazon will be do a transfer (minimum $10) and then I'll have actual passive income. (If you missed the first post, you can go take a look a the Amazon page: {linkout:http://www.amazon.com/Broken-Mirror-stories-around-ebook/dp/B003EEN2UE/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&m=AG56TWVU5XWC2&s=digital-text...
April 10, 2009
I was thinking about funny words today. Pants. David Letterman made the funniness of Pants famous when he formed his production company Wordwide Pants. We carry many precious things in our pants, starting with our sex and bathroom equipment and ending with whatever sticky thing you left in your pocket. Try adding "in your pants" at the end of fortune cookies. That'll make you crack a smile - in...