What I really hate about attending live games is what takes place before the game: the demand that everyone there stand during the Pledge of Allegiance and the playing of the national anthem.  Sure, some people will drag out the tired, old argument that soldiers died abroad so that I could have the “honor” of reciting the Pledge. In truth, U.S. troops have mostly died to protect the economic interests of U.S. corporations, overthrow foreign governments, destabilize entire regions, complete Manifest Destiny and punish 11 states for seceding.  Very little of that troop deployment had to do with actually defending Americans from external threats, and indirectly, our “right” to mindlessly recite a pledge and honor America’s theme song when instructed to do so .

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Q: Why do gang members rarely kill cops?

A: Professional courtesy.

No, forcing people to buy insurance is stupid, and for a variety of reasons.

In almost every other state in the U.S., drivers are forced to buy insurance.  This of course is a sweetheart deal between the insurance industry and the state governments.  The insurance companies pretty much charge whatever premiums they want and offer whatever terms they want, because they know that ultimately the driver will have to buy an insurance policy from one of them or not drive their own car at all.

The biggest morons I’ve met imagine New Hampshire as this nightmarish landscape littered with broken bones and twisted metal as cars smash into people and property every five minutes, because after all, having no auto insurance makes one less responsible about their driving, right?

Wrong.

In New Hampshire, auto insurance companies understand they have to charge premiums and offer terms that are actually competitive, because they know the driver has the option to buy no insurance at all.   As a result, premiums are much lower, and most people in New Hampshire have auto insurance for the simple fact that it is affordable. (more…)

The film focuses on Joseph Kony, the leader of the Lord’s Resistance Army (LRA), which has conducted countless raids on the people of Uganda.  The raids primarily consist of kidnapping boys and forcing them into their army and kidnapping girls to use as sex slaves as well as whatever items of value they find.  The Ugandan military forced the LRA out of Uganda in 2005.  Since then Kony and his army has found refuge in neighboring countries South Sudan, Congo and the Central African Republic, pillaging and engaging in child abduction in Uganda’s border villages. (more…)

The milestone got a fair amount of press, though a negative comment on one article did get my attention and prompted me to write this piece.  I tried to find this article again, and after trying for a week, was unsuccessful and decided I wanted to move on with this piece.  The commenter basically suggested the Free State Project was doomed to fail because it took ten years for 1,000 liberty lovers to move to New Hampshire while thousands of Massholes move north to New Hampshire every year. (more…)

Three reasons:

1.  I was actually stupid enough to download this piece of malware, and I got rid of it all by myself without having to reformat my hard drive.  I’d like to share what exactly I did to make that happen so that others do not have to go to extremes like hiring someone to fix it or having to wipe your hard drive clean.

2.  Since this malware seems to be affecting many people, since “Windows 2012 Security Virus” seems to be a very popular search subject when typing the first two words into Google.  So I figure writing about it will at least bring more people to this blog.

3.  Because I couldn’t use my Firefox browser, it was the main reason I couldn’t get into WordPress and make any new entries here for a few weeks.

If you don’t know what this piece of malware is,  just Google it, because I’m not in the mood to explain any background shit.  If you do know what this is, read on. (more…)

One of my biggest pet peeves is, during election time, when newspapers publish a list of which candidates they endorse in the upcoming race.   Often this is a list of political candidates who have purchased the most advertising space from a particular newspaper.  In some cases, an editorial would run explaining why the newspaper had endorsed the candidate.

At the Queens Courier, the first newspaper at which I worked, candidates were able to bribe the publisher to publish an article smearing their opponents with less than flattering information that was ancient history and had no relevance whatsoever aside from the fact that a candidate had paid for said article to be published.

How can the editorial board of any newspaper say with a straight face that they are unbiased when they clearly make no effort to hide their bias and publish a list of the candidates they support?  How many people actually go out and vote for a candidate simply because their newspaper endorses them?  Is it any surprise that journalism has lost most if not all of the credibility this profession once had? (more…)

Some college students, inspired by the larger Occupy Movement inspired by OWS as well as in a show of solidarity with OWS, have occupied public spaces on their universities’ campuses, protesting such issues as tuition hikes and demanding increased scholarship funds for low-income students.  The most famous of these campus occupations have been the one at University of California Davis during which campus police doused the protestors with large amounts of pepper spray.

The spraying of the occupiers quickly became infamous, spurring national debate about police abuse.  The image and video footage of the incident has since gone viral and has even evolved into an Internet meme called Casually Pepper Spray Everything Cop. (more…)

I’ve been mulling over which multimedia format to use to amplify my blog (videoblogging, podcasting, etc.) and I’ve decided to go with libertarian-themed Internet memes.  I created one this morning and would love to share with you.  Enjoy!