Libertarian Satire Smashing the National Security State

This video encapsulates into 3 minutes just about all that many of us find enraging about the current culture and state of affairs in the country using criticism of the TSA's violation of the 4th amendment as a starting point. Got news for ya....we aren't just a bunch of legalize Marijuana people (although that would be nice :) We read.....and we think.....and we argue back now.....and we increasingly VOTE.....this is social satire no doubt but there are serious arguments and thoughts behind it....just calling people names is not an argument and won't cut it anymore....fight our ideas, if they are so easy to refute you will eventually win.

Straight Political Thought From Real Voters

I like this because its not some focus group where people tell the puffed up bloated millionaire moderator what they think they are supposed to say or some BS about what "feeling" they get when they look into Willard Romney's eyes or whatever bullshit. This is straight from the people.

Update on the Russian View of the Situation in Syria and Iran

The beginning of the war is not being televised.

Words or Phrases "U" Wish "U" Could Ban

Language, like any other technology, is shaped by its use. Used mindlessly and thoughtlessly it will cease to enhance thought but will truncate, limit, and inhibit it.....so baby let the words flow from your mouth and pen and keyboard!!! :) and if you run out of words then rip the Face off of FaceBook and expand your vocabulary including my own :)

Decline Theory in History?

A short informal talk on the Decline Theory of History and its relevance to the world today. The quote I mention at the end is from Herodotus in his "Histories" not from Thucydides in "The Pelopennesian War" (Thucydides was more practical :) but the point is the same.

The Sources of Modern Angst

A rambling examination of mine of the current pessimism.

The Credit Anstalt Crisis of 1932

Here is a short snippet of a brilliant historian describing the demise of a central bank. And this professor of history, a man of perhaps less genius but greater passion, speaks for himself with great force and energy.