Brian’s Column: Liberty Dollar Original

Posted on January 19, 2014 by Brian Wright

Federales fear Honest Money
First Published December 01, 2006

Liberty_dollar Live 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)

Posted on January 17, 2014 by Brian Wright

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

by 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)

Posted on January 15, 2014 by Brian Wright

Teen supernatural flick has ‘potential’ __ 5/10

Isabella 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

Posted on January 13, 2014 by Brian Wright

Fundamentalism: A Psychological Problem
by Robert J. Burrowes

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

Posted on January 12, 2014 by Brian Wright

Friend 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)

Posted on January 10, 2014 by Brian Wright

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

But 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 →

Movie Review: The Thorn Birds (1983)

Posted on January 8, 2014 by Brian Wright

1980s series works via great performances _ 8/10

Ralph de Bricassart: [telling the legend of the thorn bird to Meggie] There’s a story… a legend, about a bird that sings just once in its life. From the moment it leaves its nest, it searches for a thorn tree… and never rests until it’s found one. And then it sings… more sweetly than any other creature on the face of the earth. And singing, it impales itself on the longest, sharpest thorn. But, as it dies, it rises above its own agony, to outsing the lark and the nightingale. The thorn bird pays its life for just one song, but the whole world stills to listen, and God in his heaven smiles.
Young Meggie Cleary: What does it mean, Father?
Ralph de Bricassart: That the best… is bought only at the cost of great pain. Continue reading →