Political Vids
Liberty & Economics: A Reflection on Ludwig von Mises:
My least favorite political commentator, Glenn Beck, on one of my favorite economists, Fredrich Hayek and his The Road to Serfdom:
Gone Too Long Megapost
I have never heard of it (no surprise there), but in 1962, the U.S. government exploded a hydrogen bomb in low-level space, just like one of those sci-fi movies where the aliens get blown up as soon as they leave the atmosphere, while the little humans dance around and watch the explosions in the sky.…
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This past week, there was a great quick reflection in The Magis Institute’s Daily Ignatian Reflection: Friday 2 July 2010 Mt. 9:9-13 In the early 1980’s, when the Solidarity movement was attacked in Poland, many people fled to the US. I was a young Jesuit scholastic who spoke some Polish, so I tried to help…
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come late this week. I have been traveling from Hong Kong, to a party for 4th hosted at my house, to the Tri-Cities to start working as a legal intern at Roach Law. And I am still not caught up on sleep… I don’t like the video, but the song is unbeatable…Zac Brown Band –…
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When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished at how much he had learned in seven years.
– Mark Twain
Sunday Song. Try Again.
The video might have been cool, but the song kinda sucked. Here is your real Sunday Song this week…
Ray Lamontaigne – Three More Days:
A Bit of Wisdom from The Beav
Fr. Beaver always said there were three things you should think about before getting married, and I think the advice is great: Is this someone you can’t live without? Is this someone you want to have children with? Is this someone you would be willing to sign your life insurance policy over to? The latest…
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I am stuck inside in Hong Kong with a terrible virus. Luckily, it is stormy outside, so there is no reason for me to be out playing… Mostly rhetorical, but open for discussion, comes the following: It should be legal to sell your organs to other people in the United States. To save a friend…
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If I speak in the tongues of men and of angels, but have not love, I am a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal. And if I have prophetic powers, and understand all mysteries and all knowledge, and if I have all faith, so as to remove mountains, but have not love, I am nothing. …
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