Making Goals
“If you don’t know where you’re going, how can you expect to get there?” - Basil S. Walsh
I am in a transitional period of my life. A few years ago I was a carefree junior officer. My primary duty was to drive a two billion dollar submarine like I owned it. I was married to [...]
Freedom Friendly Children’s Entertainment
My daughter is coming into an age in which she is absorbing knowledge and ideas like a sponge. This has made me keenly aware that there are many competing ideologies out there among children’s books and television programs. Most people see cartoonish pictures of animals, cuddly dancing monsters and simple lessons on numbers and the [...]
Why We Are Considering Homeschooling
Homeschooling as a concept was completely foreign to me until I went to college. I met a few kids there that had been homeschooled and my general impression was that their parents must have been hippies or religious zealots. Of course, I made these judgments without any data whatsoever. Then, while I was on my [...]
A Revolution in Thinking or How I Stopped Drinking the Kool-Aid
Isn’t voting a pain in the ass? My vote is just one little ballot in a sea of millions; statistically meaningless, yet it feels so important. The 2008 presidential election has caused me more intellectual grief and ideological heartache than all of my previous voting experiences combined. Finally, just a couple of weeks before the [...]
My Doppelganger
Several years ago, while I was in college and before I had the wisdom to avoid doing so, I was involved in a political “debate” on an online forum. For those of you have never done this please allow me to describe to you why you should continue not doing this. Like most political debates, [...]
