Thursday, March 30, 2017

Consume ... Consumer ... Consumed.

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Capitalism is built on selfishness, but not every whim that pops into your head is in your self-interest. If you do not examine your philoso...
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Sunday, March 26, 2017

Book Review: Timothy Snyder's "On Tyranny"

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This is a thoughtful, thought-provoking set of aphorisms and reflections.  As much as I enjoyed it – and believe that I benefited from read...
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Monday, March 20, 2017

Of Watches and Beaches and Atheists

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I patronize the local atheist boutique to buy bumper stickers, pens, pencils, lapel pins, and badges. This one sat on my desk for a couple ...
Saturday, March 18, 2017

Counter-Insurgency is a Wrong Turn

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While I accept the thesis, I question its underlying assumptions. I take the wider view that war is crime, and therefore crime is war; and ...
Tuesday, March 14, 2017

2017 National Coin Week Club Trivia Challenge

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Better written than last year’s, this one still has some compelling ambiguities. The theme this year is "Conflict & Courage: Money...
Friday, March 10, 2017

Away from the Keyboard Again

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My assignment with the Domestic Operations task force of the Texas Military Department has been extended through the end of the month.  In...
Monday, February 27, 2017

From Pearl Harbor to 9/11

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It might be said that the enemy is different, not a nation state but a dispersed and diffuse array of "lone wolves." It migh...
Friday, February 24, 2017

I Quit Meetup

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I sent this to CivicAction@Meetup.com and to the Austin #Resist when I received a Meetup request from them.   I also sent it to the organiz...
Sunday, February 19, 2017

2017 Austin Energy Regional Science Fair

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For the sixth consecutive year, I judged the middle school and high school exhibits in Behavioral Sciences in the Austin Energy Regional Sci...
Tuesday, February 14, 2017

12 O'Clock High

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One of my captains recommended this. “You ought to get a lot out it, even based on what you know now,” he said. I think that he meant the p...
Monday, February 13, 2017

World War II Sweetheart Dinner and Dance (2017)

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The Texas Military Forces Museum hosted a Valentine's Day party Saturday evening, February 11, 2017.  Period dress was encouraged, thoug...
Sunday, February 5, 2017

Romantic Realism

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Romantic Realism is a school of aesthetics that developed as a consequence of the works of Ayn Rand. Rand saw herself (paraphrasing) as ...
Tuesday, January 31, 2017

Postmodernism

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On The Federalist blog is a recent essay identifying Pres. Donald Trump as an anti-postmodernist. (“Donald Trump is the First President to...