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A Story About Nothing One day in the summer before my 10th birthday, I was wandering the woods of our 160 acre farm, all that was left of the 500 acres Tom Stone had claimed with his land grant, issued

An Appalachian Tale Executive Order 6102 From Wikipedia: Executive Order 6102 is a United States presidential executive order signed on April 5, 1933, by President Franklin D. Roosevelt "forbidding

Some Thoughts On The Antichrist, or, Now I am become death, the destroyer of worlds To understand what an antichrist could be, one should first consider what a Christ would be. Spoiler alert: Christ is

A General Theory of Freedom, Tyranny, and Sin Disclaimer: Because of the nature of the topic, allow me to be perfectly blunt so there are no misunderstandings to clear up later. I am not writing nor re-writing

Of Suicide And Afterlife Hamlet Act 1 Scene 2 Oh, that this too, too sullied flesh would melt, Thaw, and resolve itself into a dew, Or that the Everlasting had not fixed His canon 'gainst self-slaughter!

Appendix How Could It Be Done? In discussing the murder of Michael Hastings, I gave a basic overview of what likely happened to his car, which ended in his death. However, I didn't explain any of the other

Research, And An Evolving Philosophy My good friend, Bill Buppert, has had a tremendous influence on my way of thinking. He and I have had endless hours of discussions around campfires, on the phone, and

The So Called Liberty Movement There is a relatively large group of people worldwide that self-identify as "the liberty movement". They are quite diverse in their philosophy, their goals, their

The Bad Quaker Podcast Nears Retirement As I stated earlier, I began the Bad Quaker site because no one I could find was expressing the concepts that I was expounding upon, in the fields of libertarian

2013, The Year Of Coincidences And Murder With winter over, we hit the road north. I had several speaking engagements that would eventually lead us to the Porcupine Freedom Festival (PorcFest) in New Hampshire

Activism And The Birth of The Bad Quaker As my reading comprehension returned, I began looking for harder books to read. Around this time I remembered owning Murray Rothbard's book, Conceived In Liberty,

Fun With Cluster Headaches 2: Electric Boogaloo El Cajon Pass (elevation 3,777 feet) is a mountain pass between the San Bernardino Mountains and the San Gabriel Mountains in Southern California. It was

The Homer Problem I'm not a fan of phones. Although, I realize that in our modern world it's very difficult to function without one. I have three adult children and one grandson, and a phone means I can

Fighting IP And Promoting The Free Market As bad as I hated working for a megacorporation, this time wasn't so bad. I contracted my skills through a small company that connects scientists, engineers, and

Get Out of Dodge Through an unfortunate series of circumstances in 1996, namely, those two auto accidents destroying six automobiles and a major flood, my business adventures in Reno, Nevada died. The

Remember That Time a Truck Fell On My Head? On the evening of Sunday, June 30th, 1996, after I had completed a series of jobs for a chiropractor, I was driving my pickup over to his house to deliver the

Hillbillies On The Road We had to be a comical sight to see. We had two old pickup trucks. The first had a cab-over camper that didn't fit that truck. It was made for a compact pickup, so I had to build

Fiber Optics Where does an engineer with extensive pizza restaurant experience turn when he needs a job? You guessed it, I went back to construction. It was the early 1990s and fiber optics had become

Remember That Time I Threw Away Any Hope of Franchising a Pizza Restaurant? After several years, the company was slated to sell two of its pizza restaurants. The two in Ridgecrest, one of which I had opened