[A reprint from Liberty’s Torch V1.0. I wrote this on January 31, 2015, shortly before I retired. – FWP] Just in case you were blissfully unaware of it, you’re getting older at an unrelenting sixty seconds per minute. I’ve already endured nearly two billion seconds of aging. Many of those seconds were …
Category: reprints
Oct 19 2024
The Fallacy That Won’t Die
Our Gentle Readers may have noticed that one of the two major political parties has nominated socialists for president and vice-president of these United States. Kamala Harris’s socialism isn’t perfectly overt, though her inclinations and her totalitarian impulses are quite open. Still a comparison of her advocacies with the 1928 platform of the Socialist …
May 21 2024
Anarchism
[The following discourse on anarchism was an early attempt of mine to outline the nature and difficulties both of government and of the alternative – i.e., no government – rather than to advocate either of them. When I wrote it, I’d already come to disbelieve in “problems” and “solutions,” sociopolitically speaking. However, I had …
Apr 06 2024
Rants From Runts, Pants That Punt, and Cant From…Oh, Never Mind
[While searching for something else of no particular import, I ran across this piece, which first appeared at Liberty’s Torch V1.0 on November 17, 2014. To my considerable surprise and pleasure, the embedded links all still work. – FWP] If you’ve been waiting for the: Social Justice Warriors Professionally Aggrieved Feminists (i.e., the angry …
Mar 29 2024
On Being Alone Far From Home
[After returning to and contemplating this piece, I was moved to repost an old item. It first appeared at the late, lamented Eternity Road in December, 2007. – FWP] He was far from home, alone in a sterile room in a cookie-cutter businessmen’s hotel, a storage warren for men on the road for …
Mar 21 2024
The Anarcho-Tyranny Chronicles
[Apologies, Gentle Reader. Another repost is upon us. I’m so frazzled that to produce something new would require an intervention from God. So please ponder this piece, which first appeared at Liberty’s Torch V1.0 on Saint Patrick’s Day of 2017 — FWP] If you’ve been a Gentle Reader of Liberty’s Torch for a …
Mar 20 2024
Argument, Rhetoric, And Ethics
[The following comprises two pieces that first appeared at the old Palace Of Reason in early 2004. They’re relevant to our current national discourse…such as it is. Sorry, the embedded links no longer work. Something to bear in mind as you read: a judge in Hawaii recently ruled that “the spirit of aloha” …
Jan 21 2024
Poverty In Spirit
[This piece first appeared at Liberty’s Torch V1.0 on November 1, 2015 — FWP] Perhaps the most famous of all Jesus’s words: And seeing the multitudes, he went up into a mountain: and when he was set, his disciples came unto him: And he opened his mouth, and taught them, saying, …
Jan 19 2024
Let’s Play “Spot The Loony”
[Seeing the sign embedded below at WRSA sent my thoughts hurtling back twenty years to the following piece, which first appeared at Eternity Road of fond memory. Be aware that the embedded links no longer work; not my fault. — FWP] Heather at Lil Cup Of Love has a half-hilarious, half-ominous post up …
Jan 08 2024
Quarter Pound Opinions
Yes, I’m still recovering. (I’m told this whatever-it-is can hang on for many weeks. Something to look forward to! 😒) As my energies are low and the news has been both repetitive and monochromatic, a short while ago I decided to page through my archives in search of something worthy that I could repost. …
Dec 04 2023
The Loss Of Simplicity
[I’m still afflicted by some sort of upper-respiratory torment, and expect to spend the day under about a dozen blankets, so have a reprint from Eternity Road of fond memory. It first appeared there on July 28, 2007. Sadly, some of the embedded links no longer work. Sixteen years is long enough to lose …
Nov 23 2023
A Double-Edged Gift
[This piece is an old favorite. It first appeared at The Palace of Reason on November 27, 2003. It expresses the meaning I find in the Thanksgiving celebration better than anything I’ve written since then. Twenty years later, it still rings true for me. Make of it what you will. — FWP] *** …
Nov 13 2023
Critical Recognitions Dept.
When you’ve been saying something vital to the survival of your civilization, year after year – now and then in an ear-piercing shriek – it’s gratifying to see that someone else actually gets it: What is Islam? To answer that question, it’s more important to know what Islam isn’t. Islam is not a …
Sep 11 2023
Sovereign Immunity
[The following piece first appeared at Liberty’s Torch V1.0 on June 14, 2016. And before you ask: No, I haven’t been to the kzinti homeworld since then. – FWP] Some years ago, a friend of mine who sought to pursue an action against his township for mistakenly demolishing his house was told, in …
Oct 21 2022
A Blast From…The Present?
All the yammering about “conspiracy theories” and “denialism” that emanates from the Left has triggered a memory of a half-humorous, ultimately serious piece I wrote long ago. It first appeared back at the old Palace of Reason, on May 14, 2004. I reproduce it here for your consideration. *** Bytes Of Contempt When your …
Sep 15 2022
A Little Death
[The following essay first appeared at the Palace of Reason on July 19, 2004. It’s also included in my volume The Death Cults: The Drive for Human Extinction. Given what I’ve been reading, and its implications for the perversion of federal law to “protect” the “right” to abortion even in the third trimester of …
Apr 29 2022
No Law Abridging!
[The following essay first appeared at the Palace of Reason on December 12, 2003. In light of the Usurper Regime’s new Disinformation Governance agency Ministry of Truth, it feels appropriate to repost it at this time. – FWP] *** Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free …
Feb 13 2022
Curmudgeonry In A Nutshell
[As I’m coming off an unsatisfactory book giveaway, and the question “Why do you style yourself a curmudgeon?” has been asked afresh, I shall give myself an easy day by reposting this exegesis, which first appeared at Liberty’s Torch V1.0 in March of 2020 — FWP] *** Long time Gentle Readers are aware …
Nov 21 2021
For The Feast Of Christ The King
[Today is the Feast of Christ The King, which falls on the last Sunday before Advent. It’s a unique holy day for several reasons, and one that I find particularly personally significant. The essay below first appeared at Eternity Road on January 6, 2008. I find that I cannot improve upon it, for which …
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