My wife keeps a bowl on the kitchen counter in which she places onions to be used for cooking. While packing my lunch yesterday, I noticed an onion that had apparently been sitting there for a long time and had begun growing, a shoot of six inches or so…

My wife and I walked the dog tonight, up past the water park/mini-golf course that was recently built eight blocks away from my home. It was built to give kids something to do since there isn’t a lot of open space nearby. As we walked by the eight foot tall…

Walk outside the lines and you can catch glimpses of another reality. Find an alternative to the clothes dryer, and you can sometimes see rainbows.

Here you see a man with enough money to hunt endangered animals on other continents. This man assuredly views himself as a lion in the economic sphere, which only goes to show what a perversion of nature our economy has become. If this is what we regard as an example…

Once upon a time there was a land without laws. And because there were no laws, there was no property, for how can one claim possession is nine-tenths of the law when there is no law? I won’t try to paint the picture as being rosy and perfect, but the…

A Drive To Work I now drive 40 minutes to get to work every day. As an environmentally inclined person, I feel bad about that, but I do need to make the house payments. And despite the fact it takes a bite out of my day, I enjoy the ride…

I’ve never read Ayn Rand’s magnum opus Atlas Shrugged. I barely made it through her painfully bad though mercifully brief novel Anthem. But I think I know the gist of the story of Atlas Shrugged, that all of the owners of the means of production were being persecuted and then…

5,100 people dead in flooding in Libya so far, entire city blocks swept away by burst dams caused by the flooding. “As much as a quarter of the city (of Derna) has disappeared, emergency officials said.” I was listening to NPR yesterday and a guest was saying that the flooding…

It all seems very odd and incomprehensible, doesn’t it? Sometimes you have to think that the whole world is going mad. But it is only because you are staring at the surface, and the surface is not where things are happening. …