Jul
1st
Wed
1st
Thomas Carlyle in Sartor Resartus. Describes my mother perfectly.
Upon which many were tumbled.
Jun
28th
Sun
28th
Jun
9th
Tue
9th
Snow Leopard includes the Oxford American Writer’s Thesaurus second edition. (yay)
May
4th
Mon
4th
It is well known that wealth is shared out unfairly. “People on the whole have normally distributed attributes, talents and motivations, yet we finish up with wealth distributions that are much more unequal than that,” says Robin Marris, emeritus professor of economics at Birkbeck, University of London.
Do the same attributes, talents and motivations mean everyone is equally productive as well? Is it randomness or pure luck?
Apr
23rd
Thu
23rd
President Obama showed his hand this week when The New York Times wrote that he is considering converting the stock the government owns in our country’s banks from preferred stock, which it now holds, to common stock.
This seemingly insignificant change is momentous. It means that the federal government will control all of the major banks and financial institutions in the nation. It means socialism.
Apr
20th
Mon
20th
Certain forms of government are better calculated than others to protect individuals in the free exercise of their natural rights, and are at the same time themselves better guarded against degeneracy, yet experience hath shown that even under the best forms, those entrusted with power have, in time, and by slow operations, perverted it into tyranny.
— Thomas Jefferson
Government, in short, was, as Voltaire said, a mere device for taking money out of one man’s pockets and putting it into another’s.
— Albert J. Nock - Jefferson
Apr
19th
Sun
19th
For socialism is not merely the labour question, it is before all things the atheistic question, the question of the form taken by atheism today, the question of the tower of Babel built without God, not to mount to heaven from earth but to set up heaven on earth.
— Dostoyevsky in The Brothers Karamazov
