Category: Rants & Raves

The unmitigated glory of the Internet has been precisely that *it is* free, uncontrolled, and as far as content goes, unregulated. Up to now, it has been the electronic wild west of the new millennium. And yes, this makes “fake news” from all sides of the political spectrum not only possible, but plentiful. However, it also makes a wide, wonderful web of creative content of *all* stripes available to us, and has opened the door to amazing new opportunities for commerce, creativity, self-education, and personal enlightenment. Unless we want some unaccountable government/corporate entity dictating what is “proper” for us to consume online, we must insist on taking responsibility for filtering our own surf, to think critically about the ideas we discover out there in the wilds, and separate for ourselves wheat from chaff. To do otherwise is to invite Orwellian manipulations of reality by Big Brother and its corporate coconspirators.

So wifey’s boss, who like me is a Star Trek fan, asked her to find out what my favorite series is, and why. I…

Alternative version: People don’t always join a union… but when they do, they get protection from union thugs who will physically attack them if they…

One of my favorite YouTube channels is The Truth Is Stranger Than Fiction. This one is particular powerful. Posting this to share, as well…

A good friend and FB buddy, who often poses interesting questions to his followers, had this (regarding a cashless society) to offer this morning:…

In the wake of the Parkland, Florida school slaying, the country took up the debate on gun control with more insistent vigor. The polarization…

A guitar-slinging friend of mine, Tj Jones, posted a humorous thread on the blue scourge of the internet (Facebook) about discovering he was on…

Had a ambivalent experience at our Cinco de Mayo dinner with wifey and the grandkids at El Ranchero in Ellettsville last evening. The place…

Imagine it’s 1913, and the fledgling Fed just printed its first federal reserve note and gave it to you, saying, “Congratulations, we hereby lend you this first-ever dollar, which you are obliged to repay… plus interest”. In your euphoria to get your seaty mits on this dollar, you stop and think… hmmm, there’s this one dollar, which I am obliged to give back… but where is the money I need to pay the interest? It doesn’t exist!

Recently, in support of central planning and big government, a FB acquaintance of mine (IOW, we are strangers who never met in real life but…

So, according to Occupy Dems, we’ve one of two choices — either get all “terrified” by the upcoming Trump presidency, or shrug it off and be deemed a ‘fool”? … Gee, I can think of several other options without breaking a sweat.

Today I find myself reminded of the old Bible story of King Solomon who, when two women came before him, both claiming to be…

Thanks to my friend John Franz for posting this. To my California friends and fellow Americans: Why We Have The Electoral College We hear…

I ran across a recent meme by Occupy Democrats (the which I will not present here, one can look it up if so inclined) —…

It’s true… I used to be a liberal. And so I have many liberal friends… many of whom apparently feel slighted that I have…

Contemplating, as I often do, the Keynesian machinations of the Federal Reserve and central banksters worldwide, I observe that one thing they all have…

In prep for the Springtime riding season, last week I took the bike to Dixon’s ATV out on Gatesville Road for servicing — changing…

“Dogs lives are too short. Their only fault, really. “ – Agnes Sligh Today was one of those days you just dread when you…

I know I harp on things like this. Perhaps you’ve already learned of the nefarious ways of central banks and the current (and corrupt)…

Friends… I deeply regret not taking the time to post this back there a couple days ago on Thanksgiving Day when I had the…