The Greatest Generation defeated fascism so that their children, the Boomers, could become the most selfish generation in history, drown their descendents in debt, and plunge their nation into state dependency and … fascism. (Today we use more polite words such as crony capitalism, corporatism, public/private partnerships, et cetera, but they are technically the same.) A nation that [...]
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Not So Occupied
Apparently, protesters escape to their capitalist creature comforts at night. Such decadence. The thermal images that prove 90% of tents in the Occupy camp in London are left EMPTY overnight — Daily Mail
The Importance of Mockery
People who genuinely believe that a controlled society is better than a free society never stop being utterly ridiculous. They are (or at least should be) mocked relentlessly by freedom loving people everywhere. Of course, they dislike this intensely because they honestly believe they are brilliant and you would be a fool not to follow their dictates [...]
Freedom is the Only Radical Position
Socialism is not a radical position, it is the most reactionary. It describes a system of governance that has been in place in the world from the beginning. There were essentially no alternatives to it up to the Enlightenment, only variations on a theme. There may have been some hints of freedom here and there, [...]
Fuck You, You’re Wrong
Penn Jillette used to be “kinda your classic Hollywood hippy liberal” who “hadn’t really thought about anything.” Then, while explaining his “half-assed position on politics,” Tim Jenison told him flat out, “Fuck You, you’re wrong,” and it changed his life. There are essentially two political positions: Freedom or Control. Those who are not for freedom are advocating some kind [...]
Coke or Pepsi? Does It Even Matter?
The two party system died a long time ago and nobody noticed. People love you or hate you based on differences that they could not even perceive in a blind taste test. Politicians love to exaggerate trivial differences to divide and distract people from what’s really going on. The end result of either Left or Right is the [...]
But some energy subsidies are good…right?
Solyndra is the inevitable consequence of so-called “public/private partnerships.” If it needs subsidies, it is always a boondoggle: “Haven’t federal investments in energy technology proven successful in the past? No. While anecdotes abound here as well, systematic evaluations of federal programs find no evidence that 60 years of federal energy tech spending have produced more [...]
What happens to a society that devours its young?
Goya’s Saturn devouring his Son is unfortunately the perfect metaphor of our age. ”The war on the young is led “by cadres of elderly men, content to manage decline” and exacerbated by younger generations, who don’t seem to know what’s going on or understand the gravity of the financial situation that will hit them in the future.”
There’s an ICD-10 code for that!
ICD-10 code V9540XA: Unspecified spacecraft accident injuring occupant, initial encounter. The whole country is mandated to switch from ICD-9 to ICD-10 by 2013. Of course, the real effect of dramatically increasing the extreme complexity of medical codes (aside from being able to accurately code for all kinds of spacecraft based injuries) is to dramatically increase [...]
“No Great Depression until AFTER politicians started intervening in the economy.”
Economist Thomas Sowell argues that “there was no Great Depression until AFTER politicians started intervening in the economy.” Both Hoover and Roosevelt were extreme interventionists whose policies worsened and prolonged the Great Depression, which did not end until AFTER World War Two spending had stopped (contrary to the popular myth that the war ended the depression — [...]
