Grab Bag Posting

The inevitable yet "surprising" end of Panera's socialist restaurant experiment [http://thesilicongraybeard.blogspot.com/2019/02/panera-breads-socialist-restaurants.html] . Who'd have thought that asking freeloader types who want other people's money to pay their fair share out of the good ness of their heart to get a meal would leave you going broke? I know, sarcasm. While on the topic of inevitable yet surprising, who'd have thought that inviting in the third world would bring about third wo…

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Some Collected Thoughts

Some Collected Thoughts

No, not THOT’s – that’s what Friday’s are for. And other occasional holidays [https://thelastredoubt.com/2018/07/a-late-girl-friday.html]. First, the inimitable Didact on how the left is eating itself [http://didactsreach.blogspot.com/2018/07/the-left-is-eating-itself.html] (again). > And once you understand – truly, at the deepest level – that freedom is the substitution of self-responsibility, and therefore self-control, for responsibility and control imposed by others, you will understand…

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Slow Burns and Explosions

Slow Burns and Explosions

The difference between a fast fire and an explosive device can sometimes simply be that of whether or not the fire is contained. Thus the use of pressure cookers and pipes in explosives – to contain the explosion until it’s sufficiently powerful, instead of burning out over time, or scattering itself uselessly. As the infogalactic article [https://infogalactic.com/info/Pressure_cooker_bomb] states: > The containment provided by the pressure cooker means that the energy from the explosion is con…

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A Bubble of Frozen Culture

A Bubble of Frozen Culture

I was catching up on Stefan Molyneux’s call in show via podcast, and question 6 of the April 5 podcast (available here [http://www.fdrpodcasts.com/#/3647/the-nice-virus-call-in-show-april-5th-2017]) was from a man who’d been dragged to the US as a child and illegal alien, and had moved back to Mexico, discussing his alienation. All in all it’s a damned interesting conversation, but Stefan dug out a metaphor that really hit home for me personally. He pointed out that even in the “good” cases, yo…

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Why Would Non White Non Americans Prefer A White-led West and America?

Why Would Non White Non Americans Prefer A White-led West and America?

The Didact was asked why, not being white, nor American, he so was so strongly pro a white, or at minimum, a white-led and dominant America and west. The whole article is worth a read [http://didactsreach.blogspot.com/2017/03/querying-domain-so-white-people-arent.html] . So is the one he refers to [https://didactsreach.blogspot.co.uk/2017/02/confronting-uncomfortable-truth.html] . > I particularly like and appreciate the white folk of America’s heartlands. Whether I am visiting towns and villag…

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