The Debate
The discussion was lively and circular, indeed around a round table. What could I say? The wasp in the tie was there, quoting, “relationship not religion, etc., scripture was insipired by God…” the usual. The hippies were trying to see if we couldn’t all get along. When I taught that […]
Back to Basics
I was in Asheville tonight with my wife celebrating our anniversary, when we met a bunch of Jesus-hippies and other interesting Ashevillians. It was a typical religious debate, with several god-is-alls and buddists and whatever. I met a great woman there who contested the idea that Socrates was executed, tangent to whether Jesus […]
What’s Wrong With the World?
It is not the responsibility of foreign nations to ears suffering. But neither is it the responsiblity of domestic governments, read “Not Yours To Give” by Davy Crockett.Whose responsiblity is it to care about the suffering?I believe it was Bertrand Russell who wrote an essay asking “What’s Wrong With the World?” to which G.K. Chesterton […]
Show this at your school!
Excellent video.http://www.free-market.net/resources/introduction.swfGo see it!
Profits overstated
Reading Hazlitt’s “Economics In One Lesson” today. Realized that corporations always have incentives to overstate their profits rather than understate. If they really were greedy, they’d try to hide thier profits, but the more imediate incentive is to please their shareholders, so they overstate profits regularly. The Enron scandal wasn’t about greedt […]
Two events
I got on Neil Bortz show Monday, after sitting on hold for 70 minutes. (Cell phone, peak minutes.) He had two points: Who sent the mexicans an engraved invitation to come to America, and We should build a fence along the whole border. I had two retorts: The invitation IS engraved […]
School’s Out… Almost, And not for long.
Finals are this week and one next week. Then I’m off for a while for a little R&R with Mrs. and then back to class on May 23. Ugh.
I write an awful lot on my friend Chris’ blog, some of which I copy over to here. He’s at http://thebrokenwindow.blogspot.comSome very interesting and […]