Rambling

-Go check out Thursday Cover Page, my nascent web project. We’re updating again. I just rambled on about hip-hop lyrics that blow my mind for pure strangeness. Good times.

-The art show at Wild Zero went well. People actually purchased my Lego recreations of historic scenes. Don’t ask me who these people are, but good on them. Incidentally, my JFK series didn’t sell, so if you’re insane, and you want it for only $50, head down there with your checkbook ready. (I really like that in the above recreation of Ruby shooting Oswald, there are at least two spacemen, one with a very astray helmet, and some pirates. I think we all know that there were spacemen and pirates there that day. Don’t let the government tell you otherwise. Also, I especially like that one of the spacemen is staring directly into the camera. I think serious modelers would be aghast at the oversite, but there is no way that I’m a serious anything, let alone modeler.)

-I turned down an invitation to spend yet more time with Libertarians, this time in regard to professional planning and tenure earning. I’ve said this before, and I’ll say it again, but I’m doing things my way, or I’m not doing them. It’s a bad strategy, but the only one that I’m capable of. Also, the more that I get invitations to these things, although very nice, it seems like entering a very small club in which only the “right” kind of thinkers are welcome. I just want to think; I’m not terribly concerned about being right in anybody else’s eyes.

-Incidentally, my ongoing exploration of the ideas surrounding rationality and rational decision making have led me to the belief that it is impossible for human beings to make irrational decisions. I just don’t see how it is possible. I will grant that a human being’s stated goals can conflict with decisions made, but I don’t see why we should do anything but question those stated goals. Again, if a man tells you he doesn’t like jumping off bridges proceeds to jump off the bridge, aren’t you more inclined to think that he was lying when he told you what he did, as opposed to doing something that he didn’t like?

-Also, had another argument about the basis of natural rights, and the more I discuss them, the more absurd I find the notion to be. In fact, it seems to be an awfully lazy way of winning the argument about what governments should or should not regulate. More soon, as I attempt to further my understanding of these complex problems. I’m really like the six-year-old wading into the deep end - way over my head and having no idea how to swim.

-Finally, I will be attending the Meeting of the Marked at the end of October, and will be sitting for a six-hour tattoo. My ocean legging will be almost finished in this time period, and I’ll be one cranky dude immediately afterward. I’m not entirely sure why I judge this to merit a blog mention, but, it’s my name on the website, right?