The Prime (Honorary) The Prime isn't necessarily the first superhero, but he is a starting point. He's when what a superhero is started to come together in people's minds. Though many will debate whether

The Red Mage Theodore Chesterton is a college professor. He teaches history, specializing in the Far East. And it was a trip to that part of the world that game him the powers he has today. He had heard

The Osprey Sheldon Masters is part of an underground task force that keeps watch over Earth. The task force belongs to an intergalactic organization known as The Nest. Task forces like the one on Earth

Was sick so I didn't get anything done. Feeling better today so I should get back on track

Lightning Blast One would think that the ability to shoot lightning from ones hands would be a useful superpower. But William Gifford, who was given that strange power when he fell asleep next a power

Some more background Ice Pick Whether or not this particular hero crosses the line has been a subject since he began his work and continues because of those following in his footsteps. Neville Thornton,

More productive this day than I've been in a while. Should get even better moving forward. Today I started creating an index of some of the superheroes that existed in my world so that I would have them

Today I just was able to finish up one of the things I was working on Day 1. The rest of my day was lost on a holiday scheduling crisis....I hate the holidays. Continuing Essay from the other day But not

I had planned on making some real progress this day. I made none. That's what happens when your daughter fails to comply with nap plans and you end up seeing Thor: Ragnarok. Today will be better.

This first day I pretty much was just describing to myself what I want to do with my novel. It helps me think it out as it goes. They say to write about something you know well. For me, that generally

I will return to Bastiat commentaries and other articles in December, but in November I'm going to be doing something a little different. For the first time, I plan on participating in National Novel Writing

In the last week, I've seen this graph occasionally pop up in my social media feeds. It's put out there in response to President Trump's comments on how heavily the United States is taxed compared to other

This is the first in a series of posts that I will be calling The Hypocrisy of Statists. No set schedule, just going to share some quick thoughts as I have them. We may not change many statist minds by

Bastiat uses this third sophism to attack the assumption that value is a creation of labor rather than of the result that the labor produces. It is the idea of the labor theory of value, and trade

Taking a quick break from my regular Bastiat Commentary schedule to discuss a timely and widely misunderstood concept. There's no such thing as "price gouging." Still, the screens have been filled

If someone wanted to learn the fundamentals economics, the first thing I would point them towards is Bastiat's second sophism. To understand ideas like economics, we need to be thinking about them with

Bastiat's sophisms primarily destroy the arguments in favor of protection against free trade between nations. (But much of it can be applied to commerce in general) More specifically, he was addressing

I'm going to do a series of commentaries on Claude Frédéric Bastiat's Economic Sophisms, and I'm setting up this post as an index page for it. I plan to give brief summaries of Bastiat's message in each

If you ask a group of people what 'faith' is, you will get a collection of different answers. Most of them will be ill-defined. The concept of faith is central to most religions, but the term is also regularly

Apparently, one of the things to do here is to introduce yourself. That's kind of strange concept to me. One way of doing it is describing who you are. That can make for interesting sentence — I'm a Husband,