The Ethan Boyle

The guy I rent a room from wanted to go out to lunch to the Jade Dragon, a Vietnamese restaurant that serves the most awesome vegan pho. This was a good idea since I work 60-77 hours a week and don't go anywhere outside of normal weekly shopping. I saw that under his steering column he had a pistol, so I had to ask, "Are you worried about car jackers?" He responded with, "Nope." I reminded him, "We live in Fargo, North Dakota, there is hardly any crime here." He responded with, "Well, I'm going to keep it that way." I am not an advocate of firearms or the 2nd Amendment, but I am a very big proponent of self defense, which would include the use of firearms. I think that is sometimes missed by firearms enthusiasts, which is it is about preservation of one's self or of another more than it is about some specific tool to do so or some words on paper that are presented to grant permission as if the words were needed or ...

One of the harder things to do once you realize that politics, it's mechanisms and means, it's marketing, and everything that it is right down to voting is all contrary to being free and the philosophy of liberty, is to remove from one's self all political ideas and the allegiances that one was conditioned to. I know that it is hard because sometimes I see it in things that I write. I'm not a political libertarian, but rather a philosophical one, and I am cautious of how I interact publicly always trying to avoid showing political preference or even indifference to political action. Washing one's self of political conditioning and preventing its remnants from rearing it's pitifully ugly head is what I'm talking about, and I admit that conditioning does have an affect. It may not be evident to all people that look at my writings, and that is good because I try. But I do see the same in even some of the writings of people that are closest to me who have ...