"the awareness by which we know we are"

"there's nothing to be accomplished"

More Great Freedom videos.

I live in Iowa, but fortunately in a town with no flooding. The article "Iowa flooding could be mans fault, experts say" echos some of my thoughts. Are many natural "disasters" like this actually a result of fighting and resisting nature rather than living in a way that bends like a willow to nature's inevitable changes?

• Pride of Carthage
• Christ the Lord: The Road to Cana
• The Journeys of Socrates

Historical fiction is my favorite genre now. I've read lots about Rome and it was great to get the other perspective of the Second Punic war.

Historical fiction is one of my favorite movie and book genres. I enjoyed this without laughing or crying once. I forgot to take the movie back till now. Hmmm...if I take it back now I might as well pick up another movie to watch tonight! Yeah, Mama's boy: fun movie and awesome soundtrack.

John Cusack is one of my favorite actors. I loved the movie. I laughed and cried.

What an amazing book and an amazing person: read it! Thanks to Michael McKay for giving me a copy. It's not so much that he has specific views that I agree with. The thing that strikes me is that he gets to the root of how we can control our destinies and have our own views with minimal conflict. It seems that this was one of the main purposes of our founding fathers, and probably a reason for the US's success and prosperity.

The walking part is at about 3min into the video, but the lead-up is also good if you have time.

Another great article pointed out by Michael McKay, http://mises.org/story/2894, written by Ron Paul.

31,000 scientists have signed a petition rejecting the assumption that human production of green house gases are causing catastrophic heating of the Earth's atmosphere or disrupting of the Earth's climate.