When you try to think about things like thinking and understanding words start to get in the way and spin you off into paths irrelevant. At the bottom of such meta-thinking is the feeling that this is a maze with no finish, a puzzle with no solution. The trap of recursion. A mysterious place of space and time and the collision of atoms.
Recarving Rushmore Tuesday, Apr 7 2009
Everthing weird 3:43 am
Recarving Rushmore: Books: The Independent Institute
Recarving Rushmore
Ranking the Presidents on Peace, Prosperity, and Liberty
By Ivan ElandHighlights | Synopsis | About the Author
Highlights
* U.S. presidents who are regarded highly by historians, journalists, law professors, and the public often fare poorly when we consider the ill effects of their policies or their unfaithfulness to the Constitution. A new ranking of the presidents—one that focuses on how effectively they advanced peace, prosperity, and liberty within the limits of their constitutional powers—virtually turns upside down those rankings that praise a president because he was a charismatic leader, a good manager, or served during a time of national crisis. Figuratively speaking, Ivan Eland’s Peace, Prosperity and Liberty (PP&L) rankings show that recarving Mount Rushmore is long overdue.
NewOrder – computer security and networking portal Thursday, Mar 5 2009
Anarchy 3:29 am
Testing out Flock and its integrated blogging feature.
http://www.cypherpunk.at/onioncat/
Blogged with the Flock Browser
NewOrder – computer security and networking portal Thursday, Mar 5 2009
Everthing weird 3:29 am
Testing out Flock and its integrated blogging feature.
http://www.cypherpunk.at/onioncat/
Blogged with the Flock Browser
Paul Avrich Dead Anarchists Friday, Jun 27 2008
Everthing weird 2:14 am
A Land Beyond Thursday, Apr 3 2008
Art and Poetry and Writing 11:28 pm
Far away , there lies a land
where the sunshine never fades.
A land beyond the chains of time
and the bindings of reality.
Into this land
Here comes a man
exhausted by his long journey,
He is a great figure,
His shoulders are broad
and his strength is indefatigable.
As his destination draws near,
The man sees a great golden gate
Shimmering in the sun.
He enters the gates
Where he sees a figure
in the near distance
A figure in a white robe
who beckons to him
“Come my son”
As Jesus wraps him in a robe of purple
With a beautiful voice he says,
“Well done My good and faithful servant!”
He leads the man to a great golden city,
There he meets all his fallen comrades
Friends and Family that have arrived before him are there.
And They embrace him
and he is filled with great joy.
The man hears a voice like unto a great wind
As he looks up the wind rushes past him
And he sees all his life, from his birth to his untimely death,
played back to him on the backdrop of blue sky.
10000 years then begins
and His reward is great.
Those the man has left behind,
His family and his many friends,
Have tears in their eyes,
But deep in their hearts is a great joy.
For the man has left a legacy
of love and faith, kindness, courage, strength and beauty.
And the knowledge
That the day will come when we
shall meet him again
in the clouds
up in heaven.
interventricular septum Friday, Feb 29 2008
Everthing weird Anatomy, Heart, Medicine 12:11 am
Here’s a good drawing of the inter ventricular septum, which is what ruptured in David’s case
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The Myth of Natural Law Friday, Feb 15 2008
Anarchy and History and Law and Philosophy and Politics and Society 2:53 am
A well argued treatise on the fallacy of libertarians claims of “Natural Law”
If there were human natural rights like the law of gravity, we would have figured that out all ready. A good read.
My legs are frozen Thursday, Feb 7 2008
Uncategorized conservation, enviroment, rescue, video 3:30 am
I thought this was really cute. Good thing for the doe that a helicopter was around! Clever way to save an animal in distress.
War Crimes Saturday, Jan 12 2008
History and Law and Philosophy and Politics and Society ethics, History, Morality, People, Society 9:35 pm
The man who dropped the bomb on Japan recently passed on into that black infinity that he sent so many innocents to. He took full responsibility for the bombing , so would he take the same responsibility if it turns out that it was a war crime? Interesting question. One man has the moral reasoning ability to determine if he performed an unjust act by pulling the triggger. More than 100,000 people perished that day and the weeks and months that followed. If the blast didn’t vaporize you then the radiation poisoning surely did. The bombing was unnecessary ans Japan was about to surrender. So was it a war crime? I think so.The Man Who Bombed Hiroshima.
