Muttering to Myſelf

“The Internet is the new printing press. Books became available to (nearly) everyone, and 'peer reviewed' constantly, updated constantly. The same process occurs today. Back then, monolithic corporations slowly replaced the journeyman printer and pamphleteer, producing Textbooks of Truth as immutable as medieval parchment. Now, the dam has broken, and everyone again is printing text, correcting themselves and each other, debating in terms from erudite to obscene, and a splendid time is had by all. The downside is that the reader can now be very selective of what information he receives - if he believes it's all the work of flying saucers, he can find plenty of people who agree with him.”

- Me.

Don't discuss yourself, for you are bound to lose; if you belittle yourself, you are believed; if you praise yourself, you are disbelieved.
-- Michel de Montaigne


Do not go gentle into that good night,
Old age should burn and rave at close of day;
Rage, rage against the dying of the light.
-- Dylan Thomas



What an admirable Invention is Writing, by which a Man may communicate his Mind without opening his Mouth, and at 1000 Leagues Distance, and even to future Ages, only by the Help of 22 Letters, which may be joined 5852616738497664000 Ways, and will express all Things in a very narrow Compass. 'Tis a Pity this excellent Art has not preserved the Name and Memory of its Inventor. -- Poor Richard, AD 1750


“You cannot multiply wealth by dividing it. You cannot legislate the poor into freedom by legislating the wealthy out of freedom. What one person receives without working for, another person must work for without receiving. The Government cannot give to anybody anything that the Government does not first take from somebody else.

“When half of the people get the idea that they do not have to work because the other half is going to take care of them, and when the other half gets the idea that it does no good to work because somebody else is going to get what they work for, that is surely the end of any nation’s future.”

Dr Adrian Rogers, 1931


I call myself a “Goldwater Republican.” This is what it means.

We are defined by how we react to things.

I have opinions. They may not be yours. They don't have to be - and that, too, is my opinion.


There are three basic levels of clearance in this journal:

• Bronze This is the basic Friends-lock clearance. Save for what few entries stick up above ground, if you don't have this you're not seeing anything.

• Silver This is the clearance for those whom I consider my genuine friends - alter Kameraden, people with whom I'm on first-name basis. Matters of substance are discussed at this level.

• Gold If you have this clearance level, you know it. Few do.



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