Category: Political Freedom
Three Cheers for White Privilege – Part I
We’re barely one month into the new year, and my white privilege has been on fire. Here are three prime examples of what I mean. The Glories of White Privilege CVS Pharmacy Visit On January 2, Mrs. Groovy and I went to our local CVS to pick up a prescription and a couple of electric…
Three Cheers for Our Founding Fathers
For the vast majority of history, man engaged with his fellow man according to one overriding principle: might makes right. The politically strong—whether in terms of brawn, numbers, technology, or bank reserves—had absolutely no compunction when it came to plundering the politically weak. But then these groovy cats got together in Philadelphia in 1776 and…
Second Wednesday of the Month Politics: We Suck
Those familiar with this blog know that I’m not a fan of government. I worked for a municipality on Long Island for twenty-one years. The politicians and department heads I worked for, and the co-workers I worked with, were largely a disgrace. The biggest concern for the politicians was staying in power. For department heads?…
Second Wednesday of Month Politics: Giving Back by Giving Up
The national debt is up to $20 trillion. To pay that off, the federal government would have to run a $500 billion budget surplus every year for the next 40 years. We are in a shitload of trouble. The answer to this fiscal nightmare is rather straight forward. We got to pay a lot more…
Second Wednesday of the Month Politics: How the Little Guy Can Out-Lobby the Rich
In the book How to Fail at Almost Everything and Still Win Big, author Scott Adams makes the case that systems are better than goals. As Adams explains it, a goal ultimately relies on hope—the hope that said goal will be reached before one’s willpower fails. A system on the hand ultimately relies on habits—habits…