Monthly Archives: March 2010

The sad story of how my wife, my family and my own life were devastated by the the unhappy effects of… sad stories…

Posted on March 31, 2010 by Greg Swann

At a certain age, you come to feel you’ve got a pretty tight bead on things. Wife, home, kids, job — everything just seems to come together. But then you find out that you’ve built your life on solid quicksand. I’ll tell you my story. I don’t expect you to believe it, but it’s as […] Continue reading →

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SplendorQuest: Redemption is egoism in action

Posted on March 26, 2010 by Greg Swann

This is clipped from a book I wrote in 1988 — a book I really need to write anew. It’s an epistolary novel, so the writing is kind of affected. I expect you can worry your way through it. “Madness,” as the term is used here, is an attempt to claim, as knowledge, a proposition […] Continue reading →

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SplendorQuest: My plan to stage a graceful exit from life when the pursuit of Splendor has become impossible to me

Posted on March 25, 2010 by Greg Swann

Under the wide and starry sky, Dig the grave and let me lie. Glad did I live and gladly die, And I laid me down with a will. This be the verse you grave for me: ‘Here he lies where he longed to be; Home is the sailor, home from sea, And the hunter home […] Continue reading →

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My kind of doctor: “I am responding to the situation created by this new law by exercising my right not to participate in any health insurance program.”

Posted on March 24, 2010 by Greg Swann

A letter from a sane doctor, posted at The Corner on NationalReview.com: March 23, 2010 My Dear Patient, As you must know, Congress has just passed extensive legislation governing health care delivery and insurance systems. Whether you agree with what it does or not, we are all now subject to this law and its sweeping […] Continue reading →

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Historian Robert Higgs: “Citizen, be careful what you wish for; the government just might give it to you good and hard.”

Posted on March 24, 2010 by Greg Swann

Nothing Outside the State by Robert Higgs A popular slogan of the Italian Fascists under Mussolini was, “Tutto nello Stato, niente al di fuori dello Stato, nulla contro lo Stato” (everything for the state, nothing outside the state, nothing against the state). I recall this expression frequently as I observe the state’s far-reaching penetration of […] Continue reading →

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SplendorQuest: Redemption is egoism in action: Even if other people are criminal, I am not — but I will not cause them to become good by becoming a criminal myself.

Posted on March 21, 2010 by Greg Swann

I wrote this a dozen years ago, and I’ve posted it here before. It’s apposite today, because, to all indications, we are all about to be involuntarily inducted into a cannibal cult. My question for you: Will you choose to be devoured by your neighbors, or will you elect to devour them instead? –GSS  What […] Continue reading →

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Noble savages not so noble? “There are all these aspects to our lives that just seem to work, because we are not actually baboons.”

Posted on March 19, 2010 by Greg Swann

We have been cursed, as a civilization, because so much of the social sciences side of the university quadrangle has for so long been in the thrall of Marxism. It has been difficult for intellectuals to see the world for what it is, so avidly have they sought to portray it as the product of […] Continue reading →

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SplendorQuest: Xavier’s destiny

Posted on March 16, 2010 by Greg Swann

[Kicking this back up to the top. The citrus blossoms are opening, and their heavenly aroma always takes me back to this story. It’s Springtime in the desert, and all the world is green. –GSS]  Xavier’s destiny A Ramblin’ Gamblin’ Willie story “Madre de dios…!” Mrs. Marquez said that, and it seemed a fair estimate […] Continue reading →

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Reflecting His Radiance . . .

Posted on March 7, 2010 by Greg Swann

[Kicking this back to the top from March of 2007. — GSS] I wrote this in 1996, I think. This was a fun story for me, a chance to play with two characters I like a lot. Brian Brady has wondered about locales in these stories. There always is one, a real place where the […] Continue reading →

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Computer “expert” insists, in 1995, that, “No online database will replace your daily newspaper, no CD-ROM can take the place of a competent teacher and no computer network will change the way government works.”

Posted on March 3, 2010 by Greg Swann

Technology “expert” Clifford Stoll precisely 15 years ago in Newsweek: After two decades online, I’m perplexed. It’s not that I haven’t had a gas of a good time on the Internet. I’ve met great people and even caught a hacker or two. But today, I’m uneasy about this most trendy and oversold community. Visionaries see […] Continue reading →

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