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Letters to the Editor
from Dave Earnest
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The Truth of Our Time
by L. Neil Smith
Permit me to begin this discussion in an unusual way,
since it may turn out to be the most important thing I’ve ever written. I
urge you to copy it and distribute it to your own list of friends and
correspondents before it’s taken down because, given what it proposes, it will be.
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On Not Being a Sheep
by Sarah A. Hoyt
I confess I probably should take no credit in not
following the herd. It is, in fact, more difficult for me to follow it.
Witness my struggles in 2016. It took rational arguments from two very
different perspectives for me to join the majority of the right. And occasionally….
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Us vs. Them
by Paul Bonneau
My son, apparently in disapproval, commented to me about
Trump egging on the people who are starting to protest the lockdown. I
replied, “Good, I like that.”
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About Freestate California
by Wayne Grantham
I went out on a limb, as futurist thinkers often do,
thinking “what if….” We all know that Mexico has been riding on the edge of
insolvency for decades—since its politicians, egged on by a miseducated
populace, decided to opt for a heavily socialist weighted mixed economy.
Mexico has been living on the edge, with its petroleum revenues and a bit
of mining, for decades. During that time, any advantage the country might
have seized has been eaten away by corrupt politicians putting every peso
they can get their hands on into their private bank accounts.
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Interview with Paul Rosenberg
by Jim Davidson
Paul Rosenberg is someone I've known for much of the
past 25 years. He was one of the people involved in the Laissez Faire City
project and with that group he met my friend and mentor Michael van
Notten. Paul is author of many books, including electrical systems and
fibre optic systems installations guides for construction contractors as
well as the crypto-anarchy movement's favourite novel A Lodging of
Wayfaring Men and other excellent novels. Paul is the founder and chief
executive of Cryptohippie.com and writes regularly for The Freeman's
Perspective. In this interview, I ask Paul some important questions
about virtual privacy networks.
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Happy Birthday, William Shakespeare
by Michael Badnarik
William Shakespeare was born on April 26th, 1564. 456
years later his plays are still presented on stage, marking perhaps the
longest, continuous “Top Ten” streak in human history. Truly amazing. This
begs the question, what makes his centuries-old dramatizations so popular
to contemporary audiences? The answer is that Shakespeare writes about the
human condition, which has never changed, and presumably, never will.
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The More Things Change …
by L. Neil Smith
It is absolutely astonishing to me how difficult it can
be to change, sometimes, even when it becomes clear that it is now a dire
necessity. Case in point. the keyboard of the big HP laptop computer I’m
writing this on, for example, has begun to fail me, having survived, quite
literally, an astronomical number of keystrokes (about half a
megaSagan—each of my novels is about a million keystrokes, plus I have
written hundreds of essays like this one on this device, plus assorted
e-mail). Certain of the keys have either ceased to work altogether or have
gotten quite stubborn about it, little things like p, 0, ), ", _, ?, and
colons, and, increasingly, I have had to find awkward and tedious
work-arounds (like stealing those characters from my earlier writings—say,
last month’s) to express what I want to express.
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The Coronavirus Panic: Counting the Cost
by Sean Gabb
Will anyone be outraged if I say how much I have enjoyed
the lockdown? On the one hand, I have the spectacle, as often as I step
outside, of fools shambling about in face masks and rubber gloves—all
ready to start whining about piffling infractions of the distancing rules,
and all doubtless trying to outdo each other in the weekly Two-Minute Love
for the NHS. On the other hand, my own life has not been this pleasant in
years. Deal is quiet. Deal is clean. Excepting the charity shops, all the
establishments my women and I normally frequent remain open. The others
were filled with overpriced tat. We never visited pubs and restaurants,
and have barely noticed their closure—except in the sense that it has
contributed to the present cleanliness and peace.
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What’s Next?
by L. Neil Smith
Here I am, still under house arrest, thinking random
thoughts, sitting here contemplating the whichness of what, and attempting
to unscrew the inscrutable. I am profoundly saddened to learn that Pete
Townshend and Roger Daltrey aren’t going to get any more money from Donald Trump.
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You’ve Got to Tell Them
by Jim Davidson
Bill Watson, Bob Nolan, Sam Smith, Pete Williams, and
Tyrone Johnson stood around the sides of the big table where they had
eaten the previous evening. On the table before them were screens filled
with images and short videos from the slave and torture camps that had
been opened the day before.
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