Two primary categories, Natural Law and How Things Work, are presented on my front page here, running back to 2011. Much of what I have written here involves those two related themes, since almost all human conduct...
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Vassar Bushmills
PoffThe Poignant Bucket List
It’s interesting how seemingly casual, light-hearted conversations can sometimes take on lives of their own and wind up in places that were never intended. I suppose it happens often enough to be no great...
haystackThe Rising Sovereign Individual: Part II-Affirming Free Will
Despite the Federalist Papers having been written over 230 years ago, the arguments they contained with regard to the dangers in store for the governed at the hand of tyrannical governance are every bit as clear now as...
As the End Approacheth?
By watching and listening to the Left for well over 40 years, and paying attention to self-describing conservatives who claim some religious connection to God and His Son, Jesus, I think I have an idea of how all this...
Sunday Musing: Bemoaning The Rise Of The Self-Unaware
Warning, salty language ahead! [Author’s note: This essay was first written in the pre-Covid pandemic era, but it is safe to say that we have gotten worse, as a species, according to my personal observations on...
Part II, How the Organization Man Went Rogue
Part II The Gordon Gekko vision (1987) more or less defined the next iteration of Organization Man, which I learned the hard way after returning to the US, trying to help link up American entrepreneurs with business...
It is said that wisdom is “the quality of having experience, knowledge, and good judgment. “ I am of the opinion that there are far more people in the world that consider themselves "lovers of wisdom" (philosophers) than there are those that actually possess it.
At her founding, the American Nation had already amassed 150 years of " national" wisdom; our first-of-its-kind Nation, built from the bottom up (as opposed to the top-down construction of every previous nation in humankind's history), and the Framers understood that the single-most-important ingredient necessary for her long-term survival was the freedom, liberty, and right to self-determination of the Sovereign Individual of which she would necessarily be comprised.
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