I’m totally digging the contretemps in Wisconsin. My take is that a lot of formerly-innocent Americans are seeing the naked grasping of Rotarian Socialism in a new way. Even without 2008, I think most people got it that business and government lived hand-in-pocket with each other. But the holy aura of the union hid a […]
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A Ramblin’ Gamblin’ Willie story “It’s important to remember. That public service. Is a great sacrifice.” “Good… Good…” Manny Kant said that. “Most of the government employees I know. Are at their desks. As early as ten every morning. And few of them ever make it home. Before three in the afternoon.” “Yeah… That’s not […]
That’s Ayn Rand, from Atlas Shrugged. I love that quotation and I love this holiday, second only to Independence Day. I’m working today, because that’s what I do, but I’m celebrating, too, because I have worked so hard and so well. Here’s to the dogs — to the people who write, comment and read here. […]
I could argue that much of what goes on in the social sciences consists of pseudo-scientific “proofs” that the human mind is nothing special. Sure, volitional-conceptuality — the ability to engage in mental self-reference by means of abstraction and the ability to act upon those abstractions as a free moral agent — is unprecedented in […]
We’re back, after some travails. Yesterday, I showed with two different clients, wrote five contracts, opened one escrow and moved 39 domains. I finished the day in South Phoenix, just as the mother of all storms was rolling across the Valley of the (cloud enshrouded) Sun. Y’all think you have weather where you are, but […]
That, literally, is a snapshot of my goal-pursuits for September 2010. W is for walking every day for 30 minutes, a little over a mile, with Cathleen, Shyly, Odysseus and Ophelia. I sneered at walking before we started doing it, thinking it nothing compared to a hard half-hour on my mountain bike. But wrestling with […]
I got a speeding ticket today. Oops. The other week, I had what could have been a nice real estate transaction fall apart because I skipped a fundamental step, thinking it unnecessary, only to trip on it later. Worst of all, a new software project I’ve been working on is failing, taking the SplendorQuest server […]
The Unexpected Hanging Paradox: A judge tells a condemned prisoner that he will be hanged at noon on one weekday in the following week but that the execution will be a surprise to the prisoner. He will not know the day of the hanging until the executioner knocks on his cell door at noon that […]
How quickly our lives can change in just a short time. May you live in Splendor every minute. 9/2/2001 H/T our own Ira Serkes 9/11/2001
Greg often talks about self determination and splendor. There is a raw courage that comes with saying that a bandit can put a gun in your face and demand what they want, but ultimately that bandit cannot take from you what you will not give him. But what about stupidity? Here’s an interesting read from […]
Radical chic is a term coined by journalist Tom Wolfe[citation needed] to describe the pretentious and fashionable adoption of radical political causes by celebrities, socialites, and high society. The concept has been described as “an exercise in double-tracking one’s public image: on the one hand, defining oneself through committed allegiance to a radical cause, but […]
Dear David Gibbons: Around here we dance on bridges. I rejoice that you are seeking splendor! Someday, please teach us all to Diski Dance on a bridge!
That’s a lot to take in, so indulge me as we summarize what we’ve talked about so far: You are a sovereign soul. Your purposive behavior is exclusively controlled by your self. You cannot be governed. Other people cannot control your behavior, nor you theirs. To the extent that other people — your religion, the […]
You’ve been told your whole life that all the troubles of the world owe to selfishness, and that the only true path to happiness is to renounce the self and to damn the only life you have ever known. Who told you this? Amazingly enough, it was thugs, priests and politicians — and their many, […]
My friend Jim Klein has been hanging out with us here at BloodhoundBlog for the past few months, gently tossing rhetorical hand-grenades into our discussions where he thinks they might do the most good. I met Jim fifteen years ago on Usenet, and we’ve been philosophical allies ever since. I love having him around here, […]