mushin no shin

According to Google Maps, I’m now 1.5 miles closer to work. But that’s not the best part — the best part is I jumped to the other side of two school zones. Rock.

Well folks, it’s my last post from here at Woodbridge. This computer is the last thing remaining in the apartment, having left it up since they won’t be connecting me at the house until Thursday.
It was an exhausting weekend, but we managed to get everything else moved over. I was even finally reunited with my [...]

I’m going to have to link to The Onion’s take on this — not because it’s especially funny, but because I just can’t take this seriously as news.
I mean c’mon people, ‘changing of the rhetoric’ is news now? Have we really gotten so swept up in the newspeak that we’ll allow these goons to [...]

Interesting op-ed on house flipping & rehabbing up at mises.org. I don’t have any major beef with the general thrust of the piece, but I’ve got a few quibbles:

Several years ago, the Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) passed a rule penalizing property owners who resell the properties within a short period of time, [...]

So ya see I’d been stalking the MLS listings for over a year… watching & waiting, lurking in the shadows, ready to pounce… Well finally it all came together, and as of this past Tuesday, I have joined the ranks of the deeply mortgaged, as the happy new owner of this little beauty:

The universe really [...]

With all the talk lately about libertarian Democrats, it’s interesting to see CATO giving props to Bredesen — they gave him a 60, which is apparently a ‘B’ and puts him in a tie for third place.

Having spent an embarrassing number of years slinging discs myself, doing everything from the mega-corporate gig (Musicland) to the regional family chain (Peaches — something like Florida’s equivalent to Turtles or Cats) to the underground indie hotspot (Uncle Sam’s — something like a combination of Grimeys and Karma, plus body piercing & a headshop) [...]

What we need are large amounts of porn, drugs, and libertarian philosphy [...] flooded into traditionally strict Muslim neighborhoods. I have a deep and abiding faith in the ability of our culture to corrupt _anybody_ if applied with enough persistance. One copy of “Debbie does Dallas” will do more to eliminate threats to the West [...]

So last night it was movie time again, this time it was Aaron Russo’s America: Freedom to Fascism.
To begin with, let me acknowledge that I supported Russo in his bid for the 2004 LP Presidential nomination, and I met him briefly at the convention that year (as it turns out, his doctor and I have [...]

It seems that brilliant sci-fi humorist, philosopher, and fellow anarcho-conspiritorial nutjob Robert Anton Wilson is on his deathbed and struggling to pay his bills. Go here for more & how to help.