Attribute to L. Neil Smith’s The Libertarian Enterprise

And here I am in shunny Northern California, being taken care of very well by my daughter and son-in-law. Gaining weight I’m sure, eating like a hog. Sleeping like a log. Going back to Arizona Real Soon Now. Flying on them aeroplanes, such fun! When I get back home, going to strap-on my pistol, you betcha. Damn foolish California frowns on wearing pistols. Of course, given the apparent average level of Californians’ intelligence and common-sense, maybe most of ’em shouldn’t wear pistols.

Most of ’em shouldn’t be allowed out-of-doors without an caretaker.

Or am I being harsh? “Think of it as evolution in action.”

Let us get down to fundamentals:

“I ask the fundamental question of rationality: Why do you believe what you believe? What do you think you know and how do you think you know it?”
—Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality, by Eliezer Yudkowsky [GoTo Website]

And this on the Free Speech Unless I Disagree With You front, we find:

YouTube Attempts to Silence the Mises Institute
by Jeff Deist

YouTube, the dominant video platform owned by Google, decided yesterday to remove a Mises Institute video. This decision apparently lasts for all eternity, cannot be appealed to an actual human, and comes with this friendly admonition: "Because it’s the first time, this is just a warning. If it happens again, your channel will get a strike and you won’t be able to do things like upload, post, or live stream for 1 week."

The video, a talk by Tom Woods titled "The Covid Cult" with more than 1.5 million views, was recorded at our live event in Texas two weeks ago. It offered challenges to the official narrative surrounding the coronavirus, particularly with respect to mask mandates. Woods's talk featured several charts showing rises in Covid "cases" across multiple cities and countries not long after imposing mask rules, demonstrating how such rules apparently have little effect on slowing transmission of the virus.

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When will people learn not to disagree with “Authority”, or especially not with The Masters! Uppity deplorables!

Heh. Stay deplorable, my friends!