mushin no shin

Where ya been, guy? Well, anyway good to have you back.

Basically, it’s 140 to 1, and he mops the floor with them all, including local favorite nitwit Marsha. Basically, don’t bring a knife to a gunfight, and don’t use “truthy” talking points to attack a guy who actually knows what the fuck he’s talking about.

so here we go;
sorry I haven’t written much here lately. I have no greater excuse than simply not having been in the right frame of mind.
Well. Don’t know when I’ll be back, but I’m here. And it’s Saturday night, after Christmas. It’s been a decent one. Thursday with the dad, brother, and brother’s family, at [...]

I haven’t had much time to pontificate here lately, and haven’t said much about the health care bill, despite it being the only thing anyone’s really talking about.
Anyway, Kevin Carson nails a few key things:

[...] The point, Welch said, is not that a socialized system is better than a private system. The point is [...]

Commenter njmccune nails it on the fairgrounds controversy:

If this place had been maintained properly and attention had been paid to landscaping and maintenance it would be a local icon and would continue to operate.
If it was making lots of money and still looked as bad as it does it would be a local icon and [...]

Forgotten children, conform a new faith,
Avidity and lust controlled by hate.
[the] never ending search for your shattered sanity,
Souls of damnation in their own reality.

KN@PPSTER writes about the rise of “peckerwood populism” among libertarians (I would go farther and call it the morphing of libertarianism into this movement, as they’ve done their best to drive out [...]

Awesome…
For anyone looking to understand this weird obsession I have with the economics of land and natural resources, and to explore the idea that capitalists and communists are both half-right, both half-wrong, and both making the exact same mistake — well, the bible has always been Progress and Poverty. The awesome part is that [...]

His current woes regarding pay-to-play accusations notwithstanding, those of us who think it’s anathema for the state to commit murder (and unless you think the state is infallible, you can’t escape the reality that it sometimes does) still have to love this guy:

Richardson, a Democrat who formerly supported capital punishment, said signing the bill was [...]

A nice shot across the bow on both geonomic and anti-corporate issues, via The Progress Report:

Today the citizens of Shapleigh, Maine voted at a special town meeting to pass a groundbreaking Rights-Based Ordinance, 114 for and 66 against. This revolutionary ordinance give its citizens the right to local self-governance and gives rights to ecosystems but [...]

Somehow I had not until now gotten around to watching Spike Lee’s excellent biography of Malcolm X. Meanwhile, a few weeks ago I saw the Ken Burns PBS documentary on Thomas Jefferson. Together the two films suggest an interesting comparison of the two men, as regards their curiously intersecting natures as great flawed heroes.
We see [...]

Via S-Town Mike we find out that apparently, the conservative movement is finally coming to terms with the inescapable conclusion that free market principles mandate communal ownership of the earth’s resources, by embracing the thoroughly Georgist anthem “This Land is Your Land” –

As I was walkin’ – I saw a sign there
And that sign said [...]