Liberty is an inherently offensive lifestyle. Living in a free society guarantees that each one of us will see our most cherished principles and beliefs questioned and in some cases mocked. That psychic discomfort is the price we pay for basic civic peace. It's worth it. It's a pragmatic principle. Defend everyone else's rights, because if you don't there is no one to defend yours. -- MaxedOutMama

I don't just want gun rights... I want individual liberty, a culture of self-reliance....I want the whole bloody thing. -- Kim du Toit

The most glaring example of the cognitive dissonance on the left is the concept that human beings are inherently good, yet at the same time cannot be trusted with any kind of weapon, unless the magic fairy dust of government authority gets sprinkled upon them.-- Moshe Ben-David

The cult of the left believes that it is engaged in a great apocalyptic battle with corporations and industrialists for the ownership of the unthinking masses. Its acolytes see themselves as the individuals who have been "liberated" to think for themselves. They make choices. You however are just a member of the unthinking masses. You are not really a person, but only respond to the agendas of your corporate overlords. If you eat too much, it's because corporations make you eat. If you kill, it's because corporations encourage you to buy guns. You are not an individual. You are a social problem. -- Sultan Knish

All politics in this country now is just dress rehearsal for civil war. -- Billy Beck

Sunday, June 21, 2015

Reading

So, until the last couple of days it had been awhile since I'd posted anything.  Sorry about that, but in May of '14, I did say that I was going to be cutting back on blogging and doing more reading.

Boy howdy.

Just blew through the entire (so far) 10-book Destroyermen series by Taylor Anderson.  Took 12 days.  Wow.  That's good stuff.  It's alternate-universe/military Sci-Fi fantasy, (and perhaps a bit light on logistics,) but really very well done.  Since one of my favorite other series is Steve Stirling / David Drake's Raj Whitehall series, (the first five books anyway), hopefully that's high praise.

And I just now finished re-reading Andy Weir's The Martian, which was every bit as good the second time around.  Can't wait to see the movie.  Looks like they stuck pretty close to the actual story.  Well, they at least used a few of the words from the book, anyway.



I hope Andy Weir's check was BIG.

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