This year, one of my favorite cultural traditions, “Mulligan Night”, falls on the same night as the more well known holiday of “Halloween”. It is also a Saturday night, so it likely that a lot of people will unknowingly be attending Mulligan Night parties. Thus I feel obligated to explain the rules of Mulligan Night [...]
Frédéric Bastiat died on this day 158 years ago. (Dec 24, 1850) He finished his most famous work “The Law” shortly before he died, and I am re-reading it today in his memory. He knew that he was dying of tuberculosis when he wrote it, and I think it is intended as the best possible [...]
Today is a special day for the adherents of Christianity. Today is the Saturday between Good Friday (celebrating the day Christ died) and Easter Sunday (celebrating the day Christ rose from the dead.) Saturday is the day that Christ spent dead, and I would therefor humbly submit that this day should be celebrated by all [...]
One of the interesting problems with a new religion like Environmentalism is that it is not yet generally recognized as a religion. This means that some people will not realize that they have to abandon their old religion in order to practice this new one fully. Every collective idea-organism has its traditions that are practiced [...]