According to one “Flash Card Machine,” anagorism means the following: the point in the plot especially of a tragedy at which the protagonist recognizes his/her or some other character’s true identity or discovers the nature of his situation This is of course unrelated to my own formulation of anagorism simply as an antonym or negation…

I once saw a bumper sticker that read: “I don’t have anything against God—it’s His fan club I can’t stand.” Substitute The Invisible Hand for God, and you have the way I’ve been feeling lately, to a point. To be glaringly honest, I must say I have never really been intellectually capable of not believing…

Came across Maxwell Despard’s blog Protean Post-Left Nonsense while browsing profiles on Google. Attention zeroed in on the phrase ‘altruistic individualism;’ listed first among Despard’s interests. Further search linked this term to Gandhi. This comes as a refreshing alternative to rugged individualism, regarded as synonymous with capitalism. I’ve generally privately thought of myself as an…

A few years ago, the trend in television advertising seemed to be montage designed to turn my television into a strobe light. I imagine you could kill someone with epilepsy that way. Later the strategy shifted to the audio spectrum, with commercials anywhere from 10-30 dB louder than the content shoehorned into the airtime between…

A rough outline of this schema was offered as a comment on Non-Monetary Coordination at the Angel Economics blog. That blog suggested use of an input-output matrix to model the processes of production and trace supply chains. My comment related some modeling ideas I’ve been tossing around over the years using graphs, Pareto optimality and…

I couldn’t help noticing that the ad copy at one point in Neighbor Works’ “Questions Protect” radio PSA’s changed from “predatory lenders” to “predatory mortgage lenders.” I can only wonder whether this has something to do with the proposed car dealer loophole in the proposed legislation for a new consumer watchdog agency. Keep the aspidistra…

This was intented as a comment to Non-monetary coordination at Angel Economics, but it got too long to fit the 4KB size limit for comments. I would like to add some modeling ideas for incorporation into the economic modeling paradigm offered as ‘angel economics.’ Basically, I am applying the ideas I have set forth as…

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The Center for a Stateless Society, like many marketist groups, hosts a web-based Find Your Philosophy Quiz. As is par for the course with these quizzes, I can’t find my philosophy in the quiz, precisely because the questions are worded in a way that excludes my philosophy. 7. Strongly Agree Agree Disagree Strongly Disagree Big business and…

Plain English Glossary Often we generate more heat than light because we are reading from different dictionaries. Perhaps nowhere is this more true than in the so-called marketplace of political ideas. Take the word liberal. In terms of what Rush Limbaugh means by liberal, I’m a flaming liberal, while in the sense of what the…