I got a cheery Independence Day hello from Gabi Klaf. Never mind that Gabi, Kobi, and the kids are Israelis; never mind that they’re currently in Cambodia. They’re celebrating an all-American Fourth of July for fabulous reasons. You remember the Klafs. Last we heard from them, in October, the adventurous family was in Panama. Or was it Columbia? Ecuador? Hard to keep track. They’ve been in five or six places since then, spending a long time in each one and immersing themselves deeply in every experience. Since this is a week for celebrating lots of forms of freedom, for celebrating…
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Happy Independence Day, one and all. Yeah, I know. “Independent of what?” you might ask. King George was a pussycat compared with today’s rulers. But we can still celebrate the ideal if not a national reality. And for sure, for always, we can celebrate our own inner independence. —– This is going to be short. I have just one thing to say. And while I’d like to put it in rhyme and make it an anthem, time and lack of talent demand prose: Don’t fall with the empire. People tell us that declaring (or going off and living) individual freedom…
14 CommentsI like what Tam calls her miscellany posts: tab clearing. Sometimes I have so many “Oh! I must write about this!” articles open that there’s nothing to do but just sigh and toss them all out at you in their naked form.* So here goes: Speaking of naked, in the first of today’s Heroic Protectors in Blue items, well, read for yourself. I’d rather not put it in a family publication. If a cop did that to my daughter I’d serve his gonads to the dogs. Second Heroic Protectors item: DHS trains Border Patrol agents to run and hide if…
5 CommentsAfter John Roberts’ Obamanable decision on Obamacare, Joel guessed that I would be holed up somewhere, fondling serious weaponry. Not unless you consider a hammer to be weaponry. I’ve spent the days since my last blog banging on the back of the house. Not in destruct-o-mode. But putting up trim and cedar singles. I love cedar shingles. Not only are they the most beautiful of all house sidings. But they smell sublime. And shingling is something I can do entirely by my lonesome. Great sense of personal power in that. So I’ve had three days of pure satisfaction broken by…
18 CommentsSo how did you react when you heard the woefully misnamed Supreme Court had upheld Obamacare? I first felt a flat, cool anger — without passion because it was so without surprise. I had expected the court would shoot down the individual mandate while leaving the rest — a recipe for economic disaster, of course, since the individual mandate pays for the whole — but a snarkily satisfying slap in the face and at least a small nod in the direction of the Constitution. But nothing those government supremacists do could surprise anybody who’s observing carefully. Their actual decision is…
27 Comments… and what Granderson’s embarrassingly horrible “don’t be nosy” rant says about the state of establishment journalism. Thanks to real journalist (though he probably wouldn’t call himself that), Jim Bovard for the link to the always-wonderful Glenn Greenwald. BTW, for those of you who might lose lunch if you have endure Granderson’s spewings again, be aware that Greenwald quotes nearly the whole “Don’t Be Nosy about Fast & Furious” monstrosity.
5 CommentsShow this to the innocents in your circle the next time one of them says if you obey the law you have nothing to fear. Whole family loses everything and goes to jail for … failure to speak Spanish when the feds use a Spanish speaker to frame them. Should we ban the word “trillion”? Naw. Good think piece, though. “Pry the Big Gulp from My Cold, Dead Fingers.” (H/T MJR) Sheldon Richman gives another good whack to David Brooks. “Why My Child Will Be Your Child’s Boss.” (Hint: because my child isn’t being turned into a risk-averse ninny.) (Tip…
2 CommentsEarlier this month, the Tubz were rattling over David Brooks’ plea for us all to know our places and respect our betters. And I was surely glad to see Radley Balko give Brooks and his Olde Establishment snobbery a good fisking. But me, I laughed. Brooks’ demand for obedience to Authoritah (any old Authoritah) was so pathetic, so obviously a dying cry from the Ancien Regime, that it delighted me. Yay! We’re out of control! Hooray! We point and snicker at the undersized dangly bits and bloated bellies of our naked emperors! That’s just how things ought to be. Today…
13 CommentsThe simple fact is, I’m very, very grateful. Last night I was talking with somebody who has a lot of the same problems in his life that I do. They grind him down and I think he’s becoming (or more likely long ago became) very bitter. I was bitter when I was young. I’d be lying if I said things don’t get me down, even now. I’ve bled all over these blog pages often enough that you surely know I get depressed, frustrated, head-banging, angry, sad, and all the other dreary etceteras of life. More than once — heck, more…
26 CommentsYour contribution can help a starving writer/crafter (no, not me) write his next novel and develop a novel new idea involving handmade papers and seeds. I’m talking about Carl-Bear Bussjaeger, long-time freedomista, who explains it all at that link. Once he reaches his goal, 50% of all further contributions will go to three named charities — one for animals, one for guns, one for kids. Even if you can’t contribute, please spread the word via your blog, your Facebook page, or any appropriate forums and listservs.
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