Originally posted at the jVerse Apparently, you can be an atheist and scientist and still be held in sway by cultural fairy tales. Sam Harris recently blurged about the wealthy and how they should Pay Their Fair Share. This has been a party hack point of late since tax increases [...]

Originally posted at the jVerse One of the many things that swing out of the mainstream from time to time to knock a bit of reality into my delightful pocket of anarchism is the political left’s inability to abandon, or even critisize, capitalism. Capitalism, corporatism, crony/state capitalism, call it what [...]

Originally posted at the jVerse I remember being shocked when I found out, as a young lad, that “bobbies”–british cops–didn’t carry guns. Even Barney Fife*, in the entirely non-violent town of Mayberry, had a gun with a bullet for the one-in-a-million chance that he would need to protect somebody with [...]

Cross posted at jVerse with podcast The evolutionary psych story about humanity is that war, genocide, and the divisive “-isms” that keep humans in a perpetual state of conflict are inevitable expressions of an “us vs. them” tendency that is simply a part of our biological makeup. It’s indisputable that [...]

Originally posted at jad-davis.com “Reasoning in midstream*” is a common phenomenon in public discourse that typically starts right around the time that bombs start dropping or legislation starts being penned in response to a “crisis”. It is the monotonous focus on the present state of a problem–a pending genocide, a [...]

Cross posted from my website, jad-davis.com (hence the odd seeming self-reference to Gonzo Times).  Below, I’ve combined the Introduction with the follow-up post, Marriage, Monogamy, and Violence to save on page real estate. Introduction The next several posts will (barring sidetracking) be related to a discussion going on at the [...]