"All Hallows’ Day"

“Come on, Jimmy, we have to go pay our respects...

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Marred Monk

October 10th is not only Thelonious Monk’s birthday...

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KA-POW! #4 - Mises

This week's “Kick-Ass Post O’th’ Week” (KA-POW) goes to Ludwig von Mises for “Freedom Is Slavery" :

There prevails in the writings of many contemporary authors the disposition to represent every extension of governmental power and every restriction of the individual's discretion as a measure of liberation, as a step forward on the road to liberty. Carried to its ultimate logical conclusion, this mode of reasoning leads to the inference that socialism, the complete abolition of the individual's faculty to plan his own life and conduct, brings perfect freedom. It was this reasoning that suggested to socialists and Communists the idea of arrogating to themselves the appellation liberal.

About This Site

Why “a Bohemian…”?

• Literally, Bohemia (and Moravia) was the European homeland of the author’s ancestors.
• Literally, and quite coincidentally, the author was raised in a town named Bohemia.

(Note that ‘bohemian’ may not be taken figuratively: the author has no gypsy tendencies, has no pretense that he is an ‘artist’, and is not unconventional for the sake of being against convention.)

KA-POW! #3 - Harper

This week's “Kick-Ass Post O’th’ Week” (KA-POW) goes to F.A. 'Baldy' Harper for “The Omelet Has No Rights" :

The omelet, or collectivist, concept holds that the social omelet is the sole concern and objective of humanity. "When you are making an omelet, you must break the eggs." By this view, human rights are vested completely in the collective of persons, not in individuals. Since the will of the collective is deemed to be the same thing as justice, it follows that rights reside in the omelet and not in the individual eggs. So it becomes humane and socially justifiable to break the eggs for the omelet because that is what eggs are for. ...

"Greenspace Press Release"

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE:

Greenspace Commences the Liquidation of Mankind

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Persecuting Enterprising Gossips

A television celebrity has recently collaborated...

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KA-POW! #2 - Mallick

This week's “Kick-Ass Post O’th’ Week” (KA-POW) goes to a student named Abhinandan Mallick for “How I Found the Austrian School" :

In Human Action, Mises identifies a methodological dichotomy between the social and the natural sciences. This dichotomy is in how we use teleology and causality to explain different kinds of events.

These two terms are best explained by use of examples. When we throw a ball, for instance, we do not reason that it is guided in a teleological way by some mystical spirit or "prime mover." Instead we use the laws of mechanics and causality to examine the position, velocity, and forces acting on the ball, in order to predict the future position and velocity of the ball.

Resurrecting Bessie

On Sept. 26th, the anniversary of Bessie Smith’s death...

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KA-POW! #1 - Rothbard

My inaugural “Kick-Ass Post O’th’ Week” (KA-POW) goes to Murray Rothbard for “Capitalism versus Statism” :

If we are to keep the term "capitalism" at all, then, we must distinguish between "free-market capitalism" on the one hand, and "state capitalism" on the other. The two are as different as day and night in their nature and consequences. Free-market capitalism is a network of free and voluntary exchanges in which producers work, produce, and exchange their products for the products of others through prices voluntarily arrived at. State capitalism consists of one or more groups making use of the coercive apparatus of the government — the State — to accumulate capital for themselves by expropriating the production of others by force and violence.

“Letter of Recommendation”

To Whom It May Concern,

As a professional in our field, I can testify...

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