Everyone is telling me that I’m too angry lately. Frankly, I think they’re not angry enough. Well, their lack of anger is really the result of a lack of understanding. So, I shouldn’t be angry with them, right? After all, they just don’t understand. Yes, but they should understand. Their
It’s 1979 all over again. Well, in more ways than one. But here in the northeast, after Hurricane Sandy, there is a major shortage of gas. People wait in lines for hours only to find out that the gas ran out before they made it a few feet. Fights break
I recently met a man who told me that the state of Afghanistan was proof that a society would not spontaneously order itself towards capitalism. Now, I don’t know where he got the idea that it would, but it seems likely to me that this is a common misconception. So
You might wonder why I called the previous post Gun-Law A Priori. If you are new to the blog and you’ve never heard of this term before, a priori just means that you can come to a conclusion with logic alone – i.e., no statistics are needed. If you’ve ever taken
Recently, I had a discussion with a friend who told me that Philadelphia was a dangerous city with a high crime rate and he thought this was because it allowed the concealed carry of firearms. At almost the same time, another friend sent me this video. As the old bumper sticker
I find that many people I discuss 9/11 with, if they are not totally like that river in Egypt, will still want to see more evidence. Some, however, have apparently very short attention spans. These little YouTube videos that people make are really wonderful. They are short, to the point,
Note: This video link was edited October 15, 2023 because Anthony Lawson’s channel was, at somepoint during the great censorship purge, removed from YouTube, and I still want you to be able to watch it here. Go vote in the poll before you watch this video. Don’t worry, nobody will
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As I was working developing a website and blog for a friend’s business, something occurred to me. It was just a minor observation, but one that got me thinking and you might find it interesting. It is something that has probably, at least fleetingly, come to the mind of everyone
Yesterday’s post was some railing against greedy artists who imagine that the copyright law gives them some right to force others to pay them undue tribute. I admit, this stuff pisses me off. I do realize, however, that many people are simply ignorant of the principles behind copyright and patent
After yesterday’s internet black out, I realized that more clarification is needed about the “copyright” part of the so-called “intellectual property.” Why the quotes? Well, because the concepts are faulty and I frankly don’t want to give them any respect. I recently explained my views on patents in my open
This is an election year and there are plenty of people who at this point realize that the US President is largely a figurehead, as are pretty much all the others, and who will tell you that it really doesn’t matter who is elected, the outcome, essentially speaking, is largely
As a timely follow up to my recent post Against Patents, I thought it might be appropriate to show an example of how the little sister of patent monopoly, copyright, is abused. One of the worst copyrighting ideas is the idea of licensing where you as an individual pay for
A few years ago I wrote a letter to the editor of Bioscience Hypotheses, a journal in which, shortly before, I had published an article speculating on the cause of Bee Colony Collapse. One of the reasons I chose that forum for my editorial was that it seemed to me
A friend of mine recently sent me an article regarding a possible breakthrough in the cause of Bee Colony Collapse (Zombie Fly Parasite Killing Honeybees, Yahoo News, January 4, 2012). Some of you may remember that back in 2009 a friend and I published a paper called Honey bee colony
