These are just some of my random thoughts about the current healthcare stink. I make no guarantees of accuracy or even sound judgment. Is healthcare a right? The rights in the constitution are things that do not impose on another person’s rights, and these are rights to action, not property or some sort of service. [...]
Alexis de Tocqueville once postulated that despotism could only take seed in American democracy through a kind of soft tyranny. He said that this tyranny would “degrade men without tormenting them.” He spoke of something that did not yet exist in his world. It was the idea of this tyrant appearing not as an oppressor, [...]
I think I’m going beyond beer snobbery to beer activism. What a strange thing to take so seriously… but this is becoming a passion of mine.