Jerry Stratton's Blog, page 47
February 13, 2019
House on Crane Hill at North Texas 2019
I’ll be running House on Crane Hill on Thursday evening at North Texas this year. If you enjoy the old Haunting-inspired books and movies, come and join us!
February 6, 2019
The new barbarism: A return to feudalism
The progressive left seems to have no concept of what civilization is, and of what undergirds civilization.
January 30, 2019
Business prospect incentives discourage innovation
Complicating the law and raising taxes, then lowering them for businesses that know how to lobby local or state governments, is not a recipe for encouraging innovation. It is a recipe for killing it.
January 28, 2019
Nathan Phillips, character assassin
“That is not some disagreement about who went up to whom, or whether the wall was mentioned by the boys, or what caps some of them wore. This is an extremely defamatory statement by a political agitator, designed to shape perceptions that the boys were vicious racists with a killer instinct. The language is purposefully inflammatory and of the harshest variety.
“It is a lie, and unless Phillips is clinically insane and out of touch with reality (something I don’t believe is the case), it is a knowing and purposeful lie about a bunch of teenagers who were minding their own business. It is a lie so egregious, so foul, that I really lack words to describe the depth and depravity of that lie.” “Is this a banana, or is this an apple? Are they even pretending to care about the truth any longer?”
“It is a lie, and unless Phillips is clinically insane and out of touch with reality (something I don’t believe is the case), it is a knowing and purposeful lie about a bunch of teenagers who were minding their own business. It is a lie so egregious, so foul, that I really lack words to describe the depth and depravity of that lie.” “Is this a banana, or is this an apple? Are they even pretending to care about the truth any longer?”
January 23, 2019
Failure theater in the Syrian war
Just when I think I’m starting to understand the Democrats’ new policies post-2016, they come out of left field and support war in Syria. Are they flip-flopping because of failure theater or because they hate Trump?
January 16, 2019
Why don’t taxes go down when population goes up?
The left says that government can better take advantage of economies of scale. So why don’t they lower taxes when population rises?
January 9, 2019
BASIC auto-numbering and labels
Write BASIC programs without line numbers, and add them later.
January 2, 2019
The Year in Books: 2018
Have I got some recommendations for you…
December 26, 2018
While sorrowful dogs brood: The TRS-80 Model 100 Poet
Random poetry: a BASIC random primer and a READ/DATA/STRINGS primer, for the TRS-80 Model 100.
December 19, 2018
Money Changes Everything: Empowering the vicious
Barbarism empowers the rich, the powerful, the vicious, the strong. Civilization empowers everyone else. Gun control and centralized economies, darlings of the progressive left, have empowered the vicious since the beginning of time. The beltway crowd prefers no competition from people free to barter, or free to defend themselves.
