Wirkman Echo

Meme dump and echo of Wirkman Comment (a blog at wirkman.com).

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The Precautionary Principle re: the Current Contagion from LocoFoco on Vimeo.

A point about an alternative marshaling of a popular meme, precaution.

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A mid-November morning from LocoFoco on Vimeo.

Synth music in G-sharp Diminished.

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November Day at the Ocean from LocoFoco on Vimeo.

I take my dog for a walk on the beach at Ocean Park, Washington, on the Long Beach Peninsula.

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October on the Lower Columbia from LocoFoco on Vimeo.

I visit a friend’s property.

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Hong Kong Protests from LocoFoco on Vimeo.

September 29, 2019, protests on the streets of the island people fighting off of Mainland China’s tyranny. Paul Jacob took the footage, thisiscommonsense.com.

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Sniff, sniff from LocoFoco on Vimeo.

My dog Dasher confronts dodgy Nature — to a short synth tune.

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China Syndrome (Protests & Propaganda) from LocoFoco on Vimeo.

Paul Jacob discusses the end of Mike Gravel's presidential run and the tyrannical nature of the Chinese government, especially vis-a-vis Hong Kong.

This Week in Common Sense (Part Two) referencing:

thisiscommonsense.com/2019/08/13/and-then-there-were-20-something/

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A breeze from LocoFoco on Vimeo.

A little melody, with a breeze moving the leaves and fronds

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J.C. Lester — Where Libertarians Go Wrong from LocoFoco on Vimeo.

This video is about J.C. Lester — Where Libertarians Go Wrong

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Mandatory National Service? from LocoFoco on Vimeo.

Congress is thinking about Mandatory National Service — don't be fooled.

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Admit It, America!

“America, admit it — now you’re just in it for the laughs.”

It has come to this.

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Kai Lung on Mortality

“One cannot live for ever by ignoring the price of coffins.” Ernest Bramah, Kai Lung Unrolls His Mat

Heh.

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Meteors needed

From the classic poem “Shine, Perishing Republic.”

The Ice Age’s ending notwithstanding.

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Guyot on Public Utilities

Neither government nor municipal monopolies are novelties; they are antiques. . . . They are not indicative of evolution, but of retrogression. Yves Guyot, Where and Why Public Owner…

Ancient institutions are often pawned off as progressive innovations.

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As the citizens of increasing numbers of states begin to recognize, at long last, the sheer idiocy of marijuana prohibition, an Oregon legislator takes a stab at prohibiting tobacco … by plac…

Half a decade ago I wrote this. For anyone concerned with #drug #legalization, it might be worth a quick read.

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Utilitarianism for me has attractions similar to those that egoism has for many others — not as a program for resolving ethical disagreement, or as a reforming doctrine, but, instead, as providing …

Something about ethics.

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Satan Smiles

What question would you ask Satan that he has never been asked before? As Answered on Quora “So, how tired are you of that old memetic trap, ‘the biggest trick the Devil ever pulled was to convince…