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Friday, February 10, 2023

Cat emergency

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We have a cat medical emergency and are on our way to the vet. Whiskers seems to have an intestinal blockage. If anyone can donate toward th...
Wednesday, February 08, 2023

Update, updated

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That didn’t go as well as it could have. Still not cancer, but surgery will be necessary. In 6 months or so. Plus, there were some complicat...
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Tuesday, February 07, 2023

Here goes...

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This is it. The next 24 hours are going to be monumentally unpleasant and stressful for me. As this posts, I am taking my first gag-inducing...
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"Rights aren't real"

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In any conversation about rights , someone will always pop in with " Rights aren't real ". And they're correct. When you s...
Monday, February 06, 2023

"Listen, Little Ogg, the Stone Age is ending next week..."

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If the world had advanced from the Stone Age to what we live in today in five years, what advice could you give a Stone Age youth, if you we...
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Saturday, February 04, 2023

Shoot all balloons on sight!... no, don't do that

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Next time I see a weather balloon, which happens once a decade or so, I'm going to assume it's a Chinese spy balloon. That seems a l...
Friday, February 03, 2023

Government and drugs

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There's only one thing government can do about "the drug problem": Turn loose and go away. Release it and leave. Letting gove...
Thursday, February 02, 2023

It's the ideas that matter

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It's interesting to me when I see someone getting attention for saying something I said on this blog earlier. Sometimes a year or two ea...
Wednesday, February 01, 2023

Censorship only drives evil into shadows

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( My Eastern New Mexico News column for December 21, 2022 ) I've realized most people don't understand freedom of speech. Not ...

Comply or die... Oops, I meant "and die"

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Almost everyone will tell you that to reduce your chances of being murdered by a cop, obey cops quickly and completely. (Which is sometimes ...
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Tuesday, January 31, 2023

Business + government = failure

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When you mix business with government, you don't improve either one. Around mid-December, our town's contract with a garbage collect...
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Monday, January 30, 2023

Empathy

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I have loads of empathy for some people-- victims, for example-- and zero empathy for other people-- thieves and aggressors , for example. ...
Saturday, January 28, 2023

"Government should ban..."

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Government should never be allowed to have the power to ban anything . ANYTHING. Nor to control or regulate anything. Yes, there are things...
Friday, January 27, 2023

"Happy, free" social democracies

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In response to someone trying to defend "social democracy " with a chart, and saying how much more "civil liberties" peo...
Thursday, January 26, 2023

If I seem miserable...

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In about 2 weeks, on February 8, I'm going in for the medical procedure I've been dreading for months. It's the follow-up colono...
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Wednesday, January 25, 2023

Taxation is an uncivilized act

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So many people are currently arguing over which way to "tax" people is better than other ways. Some DemoCRAPublicans want a "...
Tuesday, January 24, 2023

Why do highly educated people get so much wrong?

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At a certain level of “formal” education, education is almost entirely replaced with political indoctrination. At least the education is so ...
Monday, January 23, 2023

Self-sabotage

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People sabotage themselves. I know you've seen it. We've probably all  done it. I know someone who is rude to people and then wonde...
Saturday, January 21, 2023

Punishment and Justice

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Yesterday, I had a short discussion with someone who considers punishment an essential part of justice . I don't . I consider it revenge...
Friday, January 20, 2023

Do you believe government should keep secrets?

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I think you could consider "government secrets" to be a test for government supremacism. If you justify government keeping anythin...