In the end, we are each a minority of one. While I support a few of the ideas of the Occupy Wall Street crowd, I find their devotion to group-think, group identity and equality of outcomes worrying.

I am 00.0000000003% of the United States population and I am an individual.

( For your morning pleasure )

Just got back from voting, early voting available in Georgia until Friday, take advantage of it if you can. Pleased to see a full slate of Libertarians for all of the state-wide posts ( Read more... )

Interesting for word buffs, political theorists and others:

Experimental Economist Bart Wilson on the Meaning of "Fair"

As we move into the next stage of the Health Care Saga, some things to think about:

Health Care, Chaos, and the Challenge of Chickens in New York, looking at how self-organizing systems cope with complexity much more efficiently that top-down ones.

The Chemist's War, Slate looks at the little-told story of how the U.S. government poisoned alcohol ( Read more... )

President Obama says we cannot have another yearlong debate on health care but must move forward now. For a matter that effects peoples' lives, one sixth of the economy and is (as currently envisioned) fiendishly complex, should we not have a full and complete public debate ( Read more... )

Spiegel online has an excellent article on the Iranian Revolutionary Guards, read it and despair of change coming peacefully to that land.

Yes, I know that the entire universe is crying how suddenly the corporations will rule everything because of their vast amount of money they can spend without restriction on buying political adds, in their own name, at any time (as opposed to not within 30 days -60 days for Federal- of an election). As opposed to having to funneling that money ( Read more... )

Good thing to remember given the last year of government expansion:

To be governed is to be watched over, inspected, spied on, directed, legislated at, regulated, docketed, indoctrinated, preached at, controlled, assessed, weighed, censored, ordered about, by men who have neither the right, nor the knowledge, nor the virtue. ... To be governed is ( Read more... )

Congratulations to Rio and Brazil to winning the right to host the first Olympic Games held in South America. But be careful with your spending, holding Olympic events is a costly endeavor.

In the US, there has been much discussion of this round of Olympic bids and if it reflects poorly on President Obama. I think the BBC's Mark Mardell has a ( Read more... )