Thinker Lite

Me, Myself and I

No more we. No one else is here. I am alone. We is stilted journalism and has no place in my bloggery manual.

I'm not the first person to prefer I.

This is not all about me, but it's all by me. I use no reprints. I don't solicit other writers' material. No copy cat stuff in this blog. It's all original writing.

Please, patient reader, expect me to deliver fresh and uncommon commentary.

I don't have an agenda other than principles which I believe in and promote. Those are maximum liberty, free enterprise (as distinguished from capitalism,) limited government (if any at all,) live and let live social code, laissez faire with an unfettered free market, following the Constitution as written (not including the corrupting precedents set by recent presidents,) and justice concerned only with force and fraud.

I have a bias against nukes, mercury proliferation, wiretaps, fluoridation, corporations (artificial entities that facilitate abuse of power,) and polluters of the environment.



Thoughts While Jaywalking

* Portland, Oregon calls itself The City of Roses. How about St. George? I'd bet ours are bigger and more fragrant.

* The U.S. Senate Democrats are trying to divert a chunk of the funds designated for the Iraq war effort to beef up our southern border control. President Bush threatens a veto. Big talking man can't find his veto pen, which he's never used.

* Did you see the smog this morning? Let's tell everyone about it. Write and call your relatives. Tell them you can't see the mountains anymore. Fib a little for the good of the community. St. George has smog. Rocky Anderson can see it, and once you understand what this means to us, you'll see it too. Join the anti-growth committee. Spread the word.

* Finally. Now the bankers are fretting about Wal-Mart's foot in the door of the finance world. Watch this one. You might see your banker behind the counter at your favorite fast food spot, working alongside your ex-pharmacist and your ex-hardware man. Bankers were long silent about Wal-Mart using its clout on governments for favors. I don't feel their pain.

* 37% doubt public opinion polls.

* What do Bob Dole, Scotty Pippen, Ted Turner, Sam Donaldson, Charles Schwab, and David Rockefeller have in common? They all receive farm and ranch subsidies from the federal government.

* What's the name of that disease where you can't recall names and things that happened yesterday?

* Wal-Mart, I mean China, is invested in the U.S. to the amount of a trillion bucks in treasury bills. Those commies could turn out a lot of our lights, if they chose to. But with all of the junk they sell here, they want us to have a valuable currency with which to pay them. We have the irony of a communist nation propping up the money of a capitalist one so as to beat us in business. As soon as China gets all of our factories, they'll have to decide whether to collect collateral on us. Horrors.

* There's a county in Arizona which is planning to pay $5 to anyone who votes. Some folks already vote for a living, this will be a job bonus for them.

IT'S ALL SO SIMPLE.