PLOR

In 2009 while showering before going to my journaling group (AKA Bible Study) I looked at the back of my shampoo bottle. “Wash. Rinse. Repeat.” I thought, “GAWD, what transparent marketing; if really did that, not only would I run out shampoo each time I washed my hair, I’d wreck my hair as well!” That’s……

The Math And Science Is Clear: Gun Control Doesn’t Work.

(But it’s not really about guns, laws, math or science—it’s all about tyrannical power.) If you don’t have time to read my lengthy essay, just watch this. (You might decide to come back read the whole thing afterward—or even to share it.) Gun control laws not working is a big claim. While I already felt……

Math And Science Are Clear: Gun Control Laws Don’t Work.

(But it’s not really about guns, laws, math or science—it’s all about tyrannical power.) If you don’t have time to read my lengthy essay, just watch this. (You might decide to come back read the whole thing afterward—or even to share it.) Gun control laws not working is a big claim. While I already felt……

Truth Social Issues & Workarounds

This will remain a work in progress. Each paragraph is a major issue I’ve identified. The first sentence is a summary of the problem. The next sentences are possible solutions, analysis and comments regarding the summarized problem. Comment on any of this and I’ll try to integrate it into this post. 1. Lack of private……

Never Talk To Police

Do You Know the Fifth and Sixth Amendments? Why in the world does every parent who is a prosecutor, a judge, or a law enforcement officer not just give their kids the above advice, but practically beat it into their heads? They drill into them: 1) Never, never, NEVER answer any police questions beyond just……

Free Or Cheap, No Bar-To-Entry Law School

While I’ve worked in education, I’ve never been formally employed at a university. I received free ministerial ordination through an organization unaffiliated with any faith tradition. After following Josh Kaufman’s Personal MBA blog for years and later reading his book of the same name, it occurred to me that there isn’t much reason not to……

Seeds of Destruction

Using pathogens like anthrax, tuleremia, ebola, smallpox or coronaviruses as weapons is all most people think when they hear about biological warfare. But historically, one of the most effective forms of it has been to go after crops, livestock or the environment. Did you know there are dozens of plants that can kill from mere……

Media Bias 101

Do you have a hard time explaining media bias to your left-leaning family and friends? Did a pollster just ask whether you A) hate Trump or B) love Biden? Do you know the history of the conflict between William Randolph Hearst and Joseph Pulitzer and how it relates to yellow journalism? Do you know how……

Faithful Are The Wounds Of A Friend

Vérité 5/17/2022 Today I am going to try to blow your mind. What if being verbally offensive is a vital and necessary component of free speech? Could our right to make people angry be the most important aspect of this freedom? Why does the Bible teach us that hard words from a friend are desirable……

DOWNTIME

Vérité 5/16/2022 My late wife lived outdoors and off the land as much as possible—year round—that’s tough here in Montana. She preferred her cowhide-bound Bible (and all her other books to be hard copies)—it was very few Kindle ebooks for her. She stubbornly stuck with her paper and pens for the important stuff long after……

Surrendering Sovereignty Is Unconstitutional

DO NOT COMPLY! Founding father and physician Benjamin Rush foresaw the dangers of a secret medical dictatorship. That’s right, any attempt to yield or usurp the sovereignty of the citizens, We The People, is inherently unconstitutional, unlawful, illegal and invalid—probably even in the context of a constitutional convention. Although governed, we are not subjects of……

POST-CHRISTIAN AMERICA

America, the industrialized culmination of the Renaissance, the Reformation and the Enlightenment,   is on a birth control drug-induced high like a heretofore Catholic nun who has thrown off her habit, bummed a toke and headed for a nude beach.  The contraceptive Pill blurred the primary difference in male/female behavior and the girls forgot Judeo-Christian restraint……

“GUNS” IS NOW A FOUR- ETTER WORD

Swollen and technologically boosted governments are more controlling; that may explain the current politicization of so much of human behavior generally and of gun ownership in particular.. America’s founders were trying to confound history with their Second Amendment to the U.S. Constitution; governments have normally disarmed citizens as they could for obvious reasons. When the……

THE WAR ON CASH

The War on Cash (yours) is waged by government (also yours). That is bad enough, but unfortunately my government and for that matter, everyone else’s too are in it together. The first stage is proceeding in Sweden, where cash is now “more trouble than it is worth” if one believes the press. It is also……

DEMOCRATIC SOCIALISM IS AN OXYMORON

Socialism is hardly a new idea; its principles interested Plato and Aristotle. Socialism, regardless of anything proponents proclaim, cannot exist with democracy. The dictionary definition of socialism:  “Political and economic theory of social organization which advocates that the means of production, distribution, and exchange should be owned or regulated by the community as a whole.”……

THE SUICIDE OF THE WEST?

The earth’s preeminent civilization is a suicide by self-administered politicization. It is but the latest in a long line of predecessors.  Civilizations rise upon the shoulders of their citizens, they are enlarged by their governments and when they are no longer energized by their citizens, they collapse. Reflecting their progenitors, they have finite lifetimes. Western……

THE PASSING OF PRIVACY

Privacy: The state or condition of being free from being observed or disturbed by other people. Computers, cameras, microphones, drones and satellites are surrounding us with observers these days, much to the indignation and even outrage of many. Never mind that, for the average person, current ideas of privacy are a luxury provided primarily to……

A TALE of TWO COUNTRIES

Communist China abandoned socialism overnight to head off the economic collapse then overtaking its Communist sibling, the Soviet Union. The traditional one party government and its police state remained in charge by handing much of the economy into private hands, inviting them to become rich. The government also bought, borrowed or stole everything useful available……

IMMIGRATION INTO NORTH AMERICA

  Some scholars assure us that no one lived in North America much before some 15,000 years ago and that the Clovis culture from shortly after that time represents the continent’s first inhabitants. We don’t know whether 97% of scientists agree that is settled science but we do know that some recent discoveries seem to……

FLINCHING FROM THE FUTURE

Our children’s and grandchildren’s lives will be lived in the society we are making; should we look forward to their gratitude? America’s Founders earned gratitude; however imperfect their bequest, it  draw aspiring multitudes from everywhere on on earth. But now we are rejecting their vision; it is time to consider how our descendants may feel……