Taxation: how the sheep are shorn.

Our “neoconservatives” are neither new nor conservative, but old as Babylon and evil as Hell.

I'm happy to respect authority when it's genuine authority, based on moral or intellectual or even technical superiority. I'm eager to follow a hero if we can find one. But I tend to resist or evade any kind of authority based merely on the power to coerce. Government, for example. The Army tried to train us to salute the uniform, not the man. Failed. I will salute the man, maybe, if I think he's worthy of it, but I don't salute uniforms anymore.

A leader leads from in front, by the power of example. A ruler pushes from behind, by means of the club, the whip, the power of fear.

I always write with my .357 magnum handy. Why? Well, you never know when God may try to interfere.

Saving the world is only a hobby. Most of the time I do nothing.

Life imitates art -- but badly.