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As a kid my favorite thing Bob would do is take his freshly cleaned brush and say, when he wanted the excess water out of it, “Now we’re going to beat the devil out of it.”

“Congressional clown show”. I second that nice little phrase. My hope is that the vote tallying process will be seriously dealt with as it seems likely at this point that neither party will except outcomes if we cannot bring simplistic clarity into how votes are counted. It seems that an analog process may be the easiest way to bring tra…[Read more]

The idea that we should hold, or better yet, expect private (disputable, I know) tech platforms to maintain a “fair” standard is total delusion at this point, and probably always has been.

State issued currency… or better yet, debt free (state) issued currency… I think I’ve heard a distinguished ole’ curmudgeon talk about that a time or two…

I’m not sure speech has ever been free, that’s why we keep fighting for it.

I don’t call you the Giza Librarian for no reason, Winston!

Very “Ministry of Truth-like”.

Walter is pretty awesome. But dang, what a disheveled looking mess. House keeping!

Well, I’ll stand by my democracy comment: we’re living in it. Though, voting machines seem to throw a wrench in the whole inevitably doomed machine. A “democratic republic” seems more of an oxymoron to me, but anyhow. And yes, we are certainly lacking a few good Ciceros these days, sadly.

I can further hear all those grouchy old school Federalists saying, “See, we told you. Those States are just too dang powerful. First it was that ever ill-defined Assumption of Powers thing, you know, that ole’ Police Powers thing that we never chose to define. And now this, my God.”

But this is a democracy, Billy. This is what a (liberal) democracy is, or it’s what it inevitably leads to. I believe what we’re missing, or maybe, longing for, is what Plato, then Aristotle, then what Cicero describes as the “Res Publica”.

Well, we’ve got differing thoughts on much of this, and differing reads on history. But hey, I enjoyed our chat and it’s great that we can have differing opinions and still keep things civil like adults. Be well, Fiat.

Point taken. The cities are a mess, undoubtedly.

Wow. Ken, you’ve completely lost it. Time for bed, bud.

Sheesh. My comment on the now missing posts had nothing to do with you. I figured it was the algorithm, yet again. I see now that you can’t stand by your own assertions, pretty sad. Maybe you should have left the comments and let people judge for themselves. I must say, you do seem to possess massive insight into the minds of just about e…[Read more]

Half the comments in this feed were wiped… how commonly strange at this point.

Ah, yes. The infallibility of derangement. What possibly could go wrong…

I just don’t see it. I live in the country where the voting demographic is as Red as it comes and country music blares from the plethora of supped up 4x4s waving American flags. People aren’t rising up, they’re simply going about their business. Roughly half the country voted this go around, and further, this half is split down the parti…[Read more]