Need, Want, and Love
Spanaway elementary school was small and all the same kids were in the same classroom every day. I spent every year with the same group of friends. Upon reaching middle school, those kids all dispersed to different schools and I was completely lost. I had no idea how to make friends and was desperately lonely [...]
Suffocating Existentialism
Amazon had good ratings on a book, “The Stranger” by Albert Camus so I bought it. Reading it took only about two hours tonight and I found it to be a fascinating book about a man who kills another man and goes on trial and is condemned. Throughout the whole ordeal, the man just does [...]
Fremont Solstice Parade: Naked Bicyclists
I attended the Fremont Summer Solstice Fair yesterday and had a blast… lots of sun, hippies, drinks, and fun. I actually sadly missed the nude bicyclists, but I did see about a thousand of them in Portland last weekend.
I do have a question though: As much as I like naked bicyclists, isn’t it against the [...]
Automakers Collapsing as Bankers Steal Billions
America’s core industrial base is being gutted by thieves on Wall Street. Detroit is turning into a ghost town while big bankers on Wall Street who paid themselves billions of dollars in bonuses receive trillions more in government bailouts. Unemployment is skyrocketing and blue collar Americans are getting shafted by the fat cats. No one [...]
NYTimes Business Page = Government Page
Today is a sad day for freedom. The front page of the business section for the New York Times is just a list of what the government is doing to redistribute capital. Entrepreneurs, creatives, founders, innovators and freedom-lovers everywhere should cry.
Stock Market Reporting Completely Garbage
I have developed an intense loathing of reading or watching journalists cover the stock market. Invariably, whether the stock market goes up, down or stays the same, journalists feel the need to attribute it to some obvious factor. For instance, today the NYTimes.com (usually a good newspaper) had a front page article that said, “On [...]
Longsuffering People
People are willing to put up with a staggering amount of shit, if it’s fed to them correctly. There are a very few people who have an absolute limit to what they will take, rather their limits are relative and if you increase it at a rate under their “exponential suffering curve”, they will tolerate [...]
The Horror of Human History
History was my favorite subject in elementary and high school and I especially enjoyed learning about the major wars and medieval times. I spent a lot of time reading on my own time about many subjects: laws and customs, weaponry, government structure, major events and economic systems. In all of my reading and studying though, [...]
Profound Questions To Consider
People who know Joel understand that he is a deep intellectual with a wealth of ideas for sharing. Right? Occasionally though, even the great Joel runs into issues that he cannot resolve on his own. For such instances he turns to the audience of his blog for solutions (because they are brilliant enough to read [...]
Snoqualmie Casino Scandal: Snoqualmie WA Casino Hurts Washington
The Snoqualmie Tribe recently received recognition by the federal government with the sole goal of building a casino near Seattle. In 1996, greedy investors approached the few Snoqualmie tribe members living in the area and set up a deal with them to get them recognition as a tribe (done in 1999), get them a reservation [...]
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