by Runaway Slave | Feb 28, 2006 | Costa Rica, Education, Essays & Articles, Libertarian Curmudgeon
At ages 13 and 14 our boys attended their first day of school today. It wasn’t their first day of reading and math, but it was their first day of school as most of us think of school. Rows of desks. A teacher at the chalkboard. Rooms full of fellow prisoners longing...
by Runaway Slave | Sep 28, 2005 | Ecology, Economics, Education, Essays & Articles, Human Interest, Libertarian Curmudgeon
My sons have been home schooled all their short lives. This year they both started high school in what is as close to a real school as they have ever seen, a cooperative home school. It’s a first for our boys and a reminder for me of how woefully out of touch I am...
by Runaway Slave | Aug 31, 2005 | Education, Essays & Articles, Health, Libertarian Curmudgeon, Politics
"I’m investigating things that begin with the letter "M.” — The Mad Hatter in Lewis Carroll’s Alice in Wonderland. The term “mad as a hatter” has its roots in a tragic occupational hazard of the early hat making industry. Mercury nitrate...
by Runaway Slave | Jul 5, 2005 | Education, Essays & Articles, History, Iraq, Libertarian Curmudgeon, Politics, War
“It is impossible to give the soldier a good education without making him a deserter. His natural foe is the government that drills him.” — Henry David Thoreau The leader of the Free World, Emperor George II, recently referred to our excellent adventure in Iraq as a...
by Runaway Slave | Apr 10, 2005 | Drugs, Education, Essays & Articles, Fraud, Libertarian Curmudgeon, War On Drugs (WOD)
Prozac was invented by the same folks who lit up my college years with LSD, the Eli Lilly Company. Interesting as the purple haze was, I would not recommend LSD to the mentally fragile or children under any circumstances nor to sane adults as anything but a risky...
by Runaway Slave | Feb 21, 2005 | Education, Essays & Articles, Iraq, Libertarian Curmudgeon, Politics, Rights, War, War On Terror (WOT)
George II recently described his campaign to bring democracy at gunpoint to the Mesopotamian desert as a “catastrophic success.” Our silver-tounged leader inadvertently hit on the perfect description not only of the results of the Iraqi war, but of most government...
