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In the latest issue of The Journal of Ayn Rand Studies, Andrew Schwartz offers a new way of thinking about the nature of the self. (Read the entire blog entry)

Because both of my parents came from large families, the memorial service packed the church with my many cousins.  I never really discussed my loss of religious faith with any of them -- or my immediate family for that matter -- after I left home simply because I saw no point to the effort.  However, evidently someone somewhere must have gotten wind of it because of what happened after the service.  As my wife and I packed the display items in the lobby, the husband of one of my cousins -- a man I barely know -- came to me.  I noticed he wore a tie with holy buzzwords such as Jesus, Savior, etc. written all over it. (Read the entire blog entry)

Toastmasters Clubs teach members not only to speak, but to listen and to think.  Unfortunately, communication relies on the effectiveness of all three skills in order to succeed.  Perhaps my letter proved too terse or perhaps others read too carelessly, but these two responses made their way into the April 2008 issue of the magazine. (Read the entire blog entry)

Will Michigan be the first voluntarily funded form of government?  Not yet, but I can hope! (Read the entire blog entry)

I've always believed that Republicans, Democrats, and politicians in general have been laughing behind our backs for years. Both of the major parties that dominate the political system in the U.S. have shown themselves to be full of lying hypocrites out to plunder the system for as much cash and power as they can grab. (Read the entire blog entry)

Take a trip through time. View reasoning or criticisms of centralized power from one epoch and compare and contrast them against those of other epochs. Enjoy integrating them where it's possible to do that without forming a contradiction. Allow history to inform your judgments of the current policies and procedures of current administrations of current governments. Should we do any less than that? (Read the entire blog entry)

A chronological list of highly-relevant quotes (Read the entire blog entry)

Interesting ways to make a living. (Read the entire blog entry)

Personal blogs are stored thought -- thinking out loud about something you feel is important. Some folks feel that "love" is either fundamentally mysterious, or something that you can't get any better at by thinking about or understanding it better than you did before; they'll react negatively to the following guidelines for becoming a more loving person (though, for some reason, they might not react negatively to these same behaviors if they were personified in the fictional characters of a novel!) (Read the entire blog entry)

More current events out of the Dark Ages. (Read the entire blog entry)