Libertarian Category
Neither ruthful nor …
Posted on January 30, 2014 14 Comments
… veracious. After we listened to Obama’s SOTU, I forced myself to sit through one of the multifarious opposing “responses”. Geoffrey walked the dog, unable to stomach what followed. It was no response at all, of course. Clearly they write this flummery without acknowledging what the President actually said, even though I am fairly sure […]
Fear and loathing
Posted on September 17, 2013 2 Comments
Not of Las Vegas (Hunter S. Thompson), not of Christianity (Friedrich Nietzsche) but of life itself. I have been reading the book The Envoy about Raoul Wallenberg, the Swedish aristocrat and humanitarian who made it his personal mission to save thousands of Hungarian Jews in the waning years of WWII. In one memorable scene, Wallenberg […]
Aw, SNAP
Posted on September 13, 2013 13 Comments
I want to tell you about one of my aunts. Aunt Bea worked for almost 50 years as a psychiatric nurse and then a supervisor in her department. She was forced to retire at 70 even though she was fit and motivated to keep doing the job she invested her career in. Other people wanted […]
Libertarianism = anachronism
Posted on August 8, 2013 7 Comments
As any respected social psychologist or anthropologist could tell you, libertarianism is a false and naive construct for contemporary society. In fact, it is antithetical to society in the first place. It espouses what is none other than social Darwinism masquerading as freedom. Since man gathered in groups, some 3 to 5 million years ago, […]
Beth Byrnes 
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