The use of government force to stop adults from putting certain substances into their bodies – whether marijuana, saturated fats, or raw milk – violates the nonaggression principle that is the bedrock of a free society.
Author: Derek
Why Do Your Job If There Are No Consequences?
Via Miguel, we learn Broward decided to retain its school superintendent. After all, why should the establishment give a damn that they cluster-fucked every thing in regards to Parkland? It’s not like the voters are going to hold them accountable.
Day Job Fun
For those who aren’t aware, my day job is with the .gov. This means a lot of my EDC is not allowed. That being said, most people ignore/don’t notice my Leatherman clipped to my pocket. My colleague and I went to do training at another office, and the security officer politely asked me to put my Leatherman back in my car, since it’s not allowed. Of course, I complied with a polite request.
Colleague I can’t believe he made you take that back out to the car.
Me First, he’s right and it’s a prohibited item. Second, at least he let me put it out in the car and didn’t confiscate my $80 pocket knife. Third, it’s not like that’s the only knife I have on me.
Metal Tuesday- Within Temptation- Reckoning
Within Temptation has a new album out, and I really like it. I’ve enjoyed their direction over these last two albums. Here’s the first track.
Tab Clearing
Bunch of odds and ends I’m not going to have time to make full posts on, but you should RTWT.
A column from the New York Post on why people distrust journalists. Letting your political bias and disdain for fully half the country ain’t helping.
Surviving Your 15 Minutes of Hate I’m not going to lie and say that this does not worry me. It’s one reason I write under a pseudonym.
From Volokh Conspiracy, 3 Rules About Hate Speech This is one thing I dread is having to explain this to my niece and nephew.
From USCarry, 5 Types of People You Should Avoid While Concealed Carry A lot of don’t go stupid places with stupid people doing stupid things.
And for something completely different, how to cook perfect rice in an Instant Pot. Which is the main thing the Wife To Be and I use ours for these days.
Friday Quote – Milton Friedman
It’s nice to elect the right people, but that’s not the way you solve things. The way you solve things is by making it politically profitable for the wrong people to do the right things.
Nothing For Today
Wedding and work have eaten up my time and spare posts.
Need A Quick Smile?
Here’s a dad joke generator.
Metal Tuesday- Band Maid – Don’t Let Me Down
Could this be more Japanese? A metal band completely consisting of women in maid costumes. Good music. Now to go watch anime.
No, Derek Really Likes Civ
The Brother and a couple of mutual friends were talking, and the conversation drifted to video games. The three of them discussed how much time you could put into a game to be considered “hard-core” playing. After bantering it back and forth, the figure of 200 hours in a game was offered up by one of the friends. Since this conversation was via the Internet, decided to pull up my statistics for hours on Civ from Steam.
Yeah, Derek’s got about 1,600 hours on Civ 5 and about 1,300 on Civ 6.
Yes, I really like Civ. It is one of five video games I play and the only one I play on the computer. One of the requirements when I built my current computer was if it would handle Civ 5, which at the time was the new hotness.
Before the Wife To Be came into my life, it wasn’t unusual for Saturdays to consist of me playing Civ with my iPad streaming Netflix for oh, twelve hours or so. Now it’s down to two and three block intervals with podcasts.
Oh well, she’s worth it.