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Ethics, Philosophy, Law, and Spirituality from an attorney, author, and father.
Recent Posts
The “Essential” Way to Destroy Rights
Coronavirus Lockdown, Day 13.We are the hollow menWe are the stuffed menLeaning togetherHeadpiece filled with straw. Alas!Our dried voices, whenWe whisper togetherAre quiet and meaninglessAs wind in dry grassOr rats’ feet over broken glassIn our dry cellarIt’s...
MAFL Update 12/20: Motion for Hearing
Following up on the last couple of virtual meetings we've had, I promised to post some documents for members of both Wilson v. Austin and Bazzrea v. Mayorkas. I really wanted to highlight this for folks who have an interest in some of the legal stratagems we've...
A Christmas Message for We Few… We Happy Few, We Band of Brothers and Sisters
I know many of you are looking for answers, especially from your lawyer, in the wake of the passage of the NDAA and the (alleged) repeal of The Mandate. What does it mean, D? I could give you a Pharisee's answer, filled with jot and tittle of "the law," but I thought...
Oct. 17 MAFL Update – Of PayPal, Dark Horse, and What’s Next
Greetings, MAFL Members and Friends, As usual, a lot to update in only a short passage of time, but this is fairly typical in federal court litigation like this. Without further ado, them updates! "You Were Right; And I Was... Less Right." - Megamind (2010) Early on,...
Updates on Updates: Oct 3, 2022, Bazzrea, Wilson, and Bumper Stickers
Photo by Corentin Marzin on Unsplash Greetings, Friends. I'm long overdue for a communiqué to you all, but sometimes working for the Resistance means prioritizing mission over message. As I noted in an earlier update, we're well into the "writing intensive" portion of...
Podcasts
Episode 3: What Happened To Modern Science? aka How and When we got to Post-Modern Science
“The crucial event was that one which for almost two hundred years had been felt to be impossible, but which nevertheless took place near the start of this century: the fall of the Newtonian empire in physics. This catastrophe, and the period of extreme turbulence in physics which it inaugurated, changed the entire history of the philosophy of science. Almost all philosophers of the 18th and 19th centuries, it was now clear, had enormously exaggerated the certainty and extent of scientific knowledge.” ~David Stove, “Popper and After”
On What It Means to Be a Marine on our 244th Birthday
I slammed on the brakes, sending Scott forward. He didn’t curse. He was reaching for his M4 as he looked up.
“Oh, fuck-”
I just nodded my head. Thirty yards in front of us, we could see the little flags in the ground, red and white, in neat rows, some rows completed, some not. Some entirely white, others a combination of red and white. It was part of the extensive United Nations mine-clearing effort in Afghanistan; I had driven us into an old Russian minefield and we were fully in it.
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The Library of Celaeno
Seeking the Hidden Thing
The Arrow
Postcards From Barsoom
