About Brian Wright

Hello, I'm Brian Wright, the proprietor and chief content provider to this Web opinion and review site. The Coffee Coaster (thecoffeecoaster.com) has been around since late 2006, and in early 2012 I finally decided to give the site a major makeover with this Wordpress implementation. My views are 'wholistic libertarian,' meaning focused on the spiritual--I like to use the word: essentual--evolution we will need, individually, in order to reach the New Paradigm of peace, freedom, and abundance. Let's help one another in the process.

Guest Column: Obama Drones Snuff Away

2400 and Counting—Minimum of 250 Civilians

ObamayahuSteve Watson
Infowars.com
January 24, 2014

This week marked the fifth anniversary of Obama’s first drone kill while in office. Since that time, according to a report from a leading watchdog, close to two and a half thousand people have been killed by launches sanctioned by the White House. Continue reading

Brian’s Column: Liberty Dollar Original

Federales fear Honest Money
First Published December 01, 2006

Liberty_dollarLive free and flourish!

Part of the noble equation of liberty is honest money.  Fortunately the National Organization to Repeal the Federal Reserve Act (NORFED) has given us the Liberty Dollar system to help us achieve just that.

Created by former Hawaiian Mintmaster Bernard von NotHaus, the Liberty Dollar is one ounce of silver embodied in one of the most beautiful pieces you’ll ever see.  It has a face value of $20, with other denominations available—i.e. you also have pieces and scrip of $10 and $5, which are 1/2 oz and 1/4 oz respectively. Continue reading

Book Review: Three Nights in August (2005)

Strategy, heartbreak, and joy inside the mind of a manager
(Tony La Russa of the St. Louis Cardinals)

Augustby Buzz Bissinger

So there’s a tendency among political ideologues —actually I’m trying to be a recovering ideologue— to eschew other avenues of real life… as if whether we achieve our liberty today or three years from today were the only issue that mattered. Fortunately, real life is more rich than politics. We have birth and death, love and marriage, sex and movies, golf and homebrewing, etc. And baseball. Continue reading

Movie Review: Twilight (2008)

Teen supernatural flick has ‘potential’ __ 5/10

TwilightIsabella Swan: Clair de Lune is great.
Edward Cullen: [Edward spins Isabella around and she gives him a look] What?
Isabella Swan: I can’t dance [laughs]
Edward Cullen: Hmm… Well, I could always make you.
Isabella Swan: I’m not scared of you.
Edward Cullen: [laughs] Well you really shouldn’t have said that. Continue reading

Guest Column: Secular Fundamentalism

Fundamentalism: A Psychological Problem
by Robert J. Burrowes

Snake Oil

Snake Oil Absolutism

This column was sent to me by a fellow 9/11 truthwalker in connection to a conversation we had last night locally (in SE Michigan) regarding the problems faced when advocating the truth to those who simply refuse to look at the evidence. In the case of 9/11 truth, many of my peers in the routine engineering profession—especially as they tend to be nearing retirement and have a significant psychological investment in the central American political authority—react with the zealous certainty of a Bible Belt preacher when that authority is questioned: “How DARE you question the mighty OZ (the immensity of the virtue of the American government)?!!” Continue reading

Brian’s Column: Walmart Syndrome

WalmartFriend or foe of citizen empowerment?

Here’s a conundrum (a puzzle with no easy solution) for you:

What’s wrong with a mass-merchandising giant bulldozing one of its dollar-days aircraft hangars and 1/2-square-mile runways into the countrysides of the world?  With Walmart you “always get the lowest price. Always.” Continue reading

Book Review: The Lonely Silver Rain (1984)

A later episode, Travis McGee no longer prime time
by John D. MacDonald

Lonely Silver RainBut still great writing as Travis deals more with his mortality

Of all the John D. MacDonald Travis McGee novels I’ve read to this point (I think I’ve done approximately half of the 21), I’m giving this one—the final one, published in 1984, in the series—my ‘least favorite’ assessment… for a couple of reasons: Continue reading