Ninth Stage

I’ve been reading about lines in the sand in various blogs. These line-in-the-sanders think that their lines are some kind of clear delineation between freedom and serfdom, they’re not.
Here’s how it’s going to happen (and I suggest that it’s been going this way for decades): You stick your big toe in the sand [...]

I had always thought that great civilizations went out with a bang or at least with barbarian hordes providing a convenient delineation between civilization and post. While Britain is going down under a horde alright, the horde is not barbarian, at least not in the common sense. And it isn’t a foreign culture [...]

Looks like our masters at the capitol have dictated that Tennessee gets a new cigarette tax. It will be a small boon to neighboring states.
Of the states that border Tennessee, Kentucky, Virginia, North Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, Mississippi, Arkansas and Missouri, only Arkansas’ tax rate ($0.59/pack) comes close to Tennessee’s new rate of $0.62 per [...]

Some years ago, about 1900, an old trapper from North Dakota hitched up some horses to his Studebaker wagon, packed a few possessions, especially his traps–and drove south.Several weeks later he stopped in a small town just north of the Okefenokee Swamp in Georgia. It was a Saturday morning–a lazy day–when he walked into [...]

Quote of the day Imprisonment by stealth.
What many of us have been thinking and talking about all along but well put.
Via Coals to Newcastle.

When CA bans incandescent light bulbs will there be a law enforcement exception?