Archive for March 2007

I don’t feel like blogging. Not for days, and if anything, it’s worse now — to a point where if I indulge the fantasy of not blogging any longer, I’m fine with it. Must be the market, but then, I’m up significantly (so far: unrealized gains of about 15%) over the last couple of weeks. I don’t know. It’s wearisome, at times. I was thinking about a roundup this weekend of stuff I liked, but I didn’t even get to that. Alright, here’s two posts by the same guy which are about the best things out there in recent memory. Be surprised; they’re both from Beck. This one, in particular. and here’s a follow-up. Both speak to what I’m all about, and what that is transcends even the explicit philosophies I’m so intent on espousing here. That is, even if I held some stupid ideas, I’d probably still be the kind of guy who cheers on the best, encourages them to go for it, and harbors imaginations that we’re gonna be better off for all of it. It’s what we do. You can’t really know your limits until you explore them. Come to think of it: I’m sick to death…

I’m not very alarmist by nature. Not at all. While I’m often outraged by the injustice I catch wind of daily, I’m actually optimistic that there’ll be ebb & flow. I really do think everything’s gonna be alright. Oh, people are gonna die, and it may be me and it may be you, and I’ll never be accepting of that, but I see glimmers of hope in many things. There are always going to be awful things happen that ought not happen, caused by the state or by individuals, and it’s tough to reconcile that with an optimistic outlook, other than to simply recognize that all I can really do about any of it is to speak out, which I do. If you look at history, the human race always seems to come up with a way to get past its messes, with better conditions for more people going forward. And there have been some huge messes. I remain optimistic in very nearly all things. Trading the markets very actively the last year and a half has been a really good lesson in group behavior. It’s remarkable how you find that just when everyone thinks something is fait accompli, just…

Wouldn’t it be great if more stupidity and ignorance were dealt with through the clever use of in-your-face ridicule, rather than running to the nearest legislature? Whaddya wanna bet that Tim Hardaway feels like a complete idiot?

In other news, it comes to my attention that peaceful people in possession of one thing, and other peaceful people in possession of another, have agreed to some sort of relationship whereby, the former serves the later in exchange for certain compensation and other liberties having to do with the possessions of the former. (You think you know where I’m going with this, but you don’t; and it wouldn’t matter anyway, because the principle is the same.) That not a single other person in the world is necessarily involved with any of these people or their mutual business ought not be worth a mention in any “Land of the Free” (if it was), and certainly wouldn’t be in any land whose inhabitants generally possessed more than mush for brains (which it doesn’t). Nonetheless, we’ve come to the point where it must actually be pointed out to real, live, so-called “grow-up adults,” that most affairs are simply none of their goddammed business. Remington helped rally the 93-member Hawaii Bar Owners Association, which filed a lawsuit in January against the state in a bid to overturn the law. The legal action claims the government has violated their private property rights. Similar lawsuits…

I’d be lying if I said I don’t derive some perverse pleasure from throwing shit around like this. I do. I’m sorry that it’s sometimes directed at people I know and like, and even family. I really struggle with it, but in the end, conclude it’s the right thing to do.