Kyle Reese… and Reinhard Heydrich
In the original Terminator movie, Reese - the heroic resistance character sent to our present from a horrific future in which machines tyrannize humanity - displays a bar code embedded on...
Get Ready…
Because here it comes.
The bodies weren't cold before the slaughter perpetrated by a single homicidal maniac became the basis for calls to slaughter the rights of millions of non-maniacs.
That's us, in...
Creative Resistance
About two years ago, I stopped renewing the registration for several of my bikes (I have five). Basically, all the ones that aren't antiques (which have one-time-fee "permanent" tags in my...
Bad Boy!
When I leave my gym, there's a red light at the intersection that literally takes five minutes to change. Often, it will skip the green arrow for people waiting to make...
The Virtue of Pressure
How much would the average new car cost if the least expensive new car you could buy cost around $5,000?
Probably, a lot less than the current average (2012) of just over ...
Breaking Through
Lenin asked, "What is to be done?"
The question facing liberty-minded people almost 100 years later is the same. But our answer should not be Lenin's answer - violent lashing out.
I get...
Boycott Autozone
If they won't respect our rights, maybe they'll pay more attention to our dollars. Or rather, the lack thereof - when we cease doing business with companies that don't respect our...
Their Proper Name
Ask any lawyer about the importance of being precise - or evasive - with language. Alexander Hamilton and his federal supremacists understood. So did railroad lawyer and slave-not-freer Abe Lincoln. (For...
Rights – vs. What Ifs and Mights
"Rights" - like "freedom" - is one of those terms that means different things to different people. Often, mutually contradictory things. Perhaps the simplest way to identify a right is to...
Permission Slips Instead of Rights
Our slavery is ingenious because it's so very subtle. Most people not only don't see (much less feel) their shackles - they get angry when someone calls attention to them. Most...