Archive for October, 2011

Quotes from The Moon is a Harsh Mistress

A ratio­nal anar­chist believes that con­cepts such as ‘state’ and ‘soci­ety’ and ‘gov­ern­ment’ have no exis­tence save as phys­i­cally exem­pli­fied in the acts of self-​responsible indi­vid­u­als. He believes that it is impos­si­ble to shift blame, share blame, dis­trib­ute blame… as blame, guilt, respon­si­bil­ity are mat­ters tak­ing place inside human beings singly and nowhere else. But […]

Comparing Circuses

Abra­ham and I have been to two dif­fer­ent cir­cuses this year. In May we saw the Kelly Miller Cir­cus in Con­nersville, Indi­ana. Last Wednes­day we saw the Rin­gling Broth­ers and Bar­num & Bai­ley Cir­cus in Cleve­land, Ohio. Here’s a com­par­i­son. Sub­jec­tive Value Com­par­i­son Between Two Cir­cuses Met­ric Kelly Miller Cir­cus Rin­gling Broth­ers and Bar­num & Bai­ley Circus […]

Stop, Collaborate and Listen: EfficientGovNetwork Regional Collaboration Conference

On Thurs­day 13 Octo­ber 2011, I used a vaca­tion day to attend the Effi­cient­Gov­Net­work Regional Col­lab­o­ra­tion Con­fer­ence on behalf of the Cleve­land Coali­tion/​Trans­parency Action Plan Sum­mit. I met up with Pep­per Pike coun­cil­woman Jill Miller Zimon and we car­pooled down to Akron. Jill was there on behalf of The Civic Com­mons; they are help­ing with outreach/​education for #EGNet­work. This con­fer­ence was […]