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Who Should Pay for Waging War?
War is a zero sum game, in which nations battle over territory and natural resources. It therefore follows that those who get the most territory for the least expenditure of resources are the most successful. For this reason, war should be financed at the expense of the enemy, and not at the expense of one’s own people. In lieu of taxation, issuing letters of marque and reprisal is a better choice. Continue reading
Posted in Books and Authors, Opinion Pieces and Editorials, Politics and Philosophy
Tagged Aaron Burr, Alexander Hamilton, dane geld, Danegeld, defense budget, filibusters, financing war, John Jay, pacifism, privateers, spoils of war, Thomas Jefferson, war, war finance, war profits, who profits from war, who should finance war, who should pay for war, zero sum game
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Didactic Fiction: Propaganda or Art?
Today I came across this quote in a Facebook posting: ”Some major writers have a huge impact, like Ayn Rand, who to my mind is a lousy fiction writer because her writing has no compassion and virtually no humor. She … Continue reading
Posted in Books and Authors, Opinion Pieces and Editorials
Tagged Ayn Rand, bias in writing, biography, Cherry tree, compassion, didactic fiction, false history, George Washington, historical fiction, imaginative writing, inaccurate history, Les Miserables, non-fiction, Oliver Twist, perpective shifting, the feel of a piece of writing, The Man Without a Country, Theodore Sturgeon, Uncle Tom's Cabin
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The Harvest Moon, the Autumnal Equinox and the Holidays of Autumn
In a perfect world, the lunar calendar and the solar calendar would be in synch. The cycles of the moon and the revolution of the earth around the sun would work together to create a single unified calendar by which … Continue reading
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Tagged Autumnal Equinox, Chinese calendar, Feast of Tabernacles, Gregorian Calendar, Harvest Moon, Hou Yi, Jewish calendar, lunar calendar, Mid-Autumn Festival, Moon Cake Day, Our Lady of Kaifeng, Sukkoth, Super Harvest Moon, סֻכּוֹת, 中秋節
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Finding a Soulmate: The Spinster and the Beggar
The Spinster and the Beggar A lonely spinster walked daily down a narrow street to her place of employment as a librarian. She wanted for nothing, for she had a well paying job, and she was always … Continue reading
Bedtime Stories: Of Dust and Strings and Everything
[Note: This article was first published on Hubpages in 2008. It has been deemed idle and de-indexed, so I am republishing it here.] My daughter received a copy of The Golden Compass for Christmas from old family friends. I would … Continue reading
Posted in Apes and Language, Books and Authors, Opinion Pieces and Editorials
Tagged apes and books, book review, can a chimp understand string theory, can a dog understand string theory, dust, reading the Golden Compass to your child, string theory, The Golden Compass, the golden compass and string theory, what is dust, what is dust in The Golden Compass
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Sometimes The Best Response Is No Response At All
For years people always impressed upon me that sometimes the best response is no response at all. Sometimes I fall for responding to certain comments that are made to just get a rise about of me, but I am learning … Continue reading
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Tagged interactions, minding your own business, not responding, responses
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Article Directories: No Rules, Many Rules or Few Rules?
[This article was originally published on Excerptz on July 29, 2011, but I have been notified that the site is closing down, so I am republishing here.] On February 24, 2011 quite a few article directories were subjected to a … Continue reading
Posted in Current Events, Opinion Pieces and Editorials
Tagged article directories, automatically generated, content farms, Dani Horowitz, Excerptz, Google Panda Update, internet, optimization, optimizing after Panda, Panda update, Pubwages, robot.txt, rules in article directories, search engine, seo, tag clouds, tips on how to beat panda, user generated content, websites and SEO
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Forced Choices
My daughter and her cousin were playing a game. The name of the game was “Would You Rather.” “Would you rather be eaten by sharks or burned in a fire?” A moment of hesitation. “Eaten by sharks.” “Okay. Would you … Continue reading
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Tagged better or best, camparative, comparative, false dichotomy, forced choice, grammatical usage of superlative, lesser of two evild, lesser of two evils, libertarian, Obama, Ron Paul. Romney, superlative versus comparative, Vacuum County, vote for Ron Paul, why vote for Obama, why vote for Romney, would you rather, you didn't build that
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