The Real Lance Brown http://lancebrown.org As Socrates said to Plato, "Please don't tell anyone what I just said." Fri, 05 Mar 2010 20:32:02 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 en hourly 1 Paul Rosenberg on How Libertarians Fail http://lancebrown.org/politics-and-government/paul-rosenberg-on-how-libertarians-fail/ http://lancebrown.org/politics-and-government/paul-rosenberg-on-how-libertarians-fail/#comments Fri, 05 Mar 2010 20:32:02 +0000 Lance http://lancebrown.org/?p=789 Paul Rosenberg posted on Fr33Agents about how libertarians (and any other group with a like viewpoint) make some basic group dynamic errors that serve to hold them back–the biggest being that they tend to communicate mostly within their own thought-circles.

I grew bored with the endless flow of philosophical and political cross-talk that seems to dominate most libertarian message boards and email lists. Most of it is about finding divisions in between people in the movement, rather than commonalities, which is not especially helpful if you’re trying to grow the movement into something stronger. And, as Rosenberg discusses in his post, navel-gazing over the views we already hold in common doesn’t help much either.

Cheap Talk & Group Dynamics: How Libertarians Fail.

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Lessons From a Blue-Collar Millionaire.

Thanks to Ruth Schwartz for bringing it to my attention.

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]]> http://lancebrown.org/fun-visual-graphics-and-toys-and-gizmos/ea-offers-free-command-and-conquer-downloads/feed/ 0 The Simplifier #5.4 is Online http://lancebrown.org/simplifying/the-simplifier-5-4-is-online/ http://lancebrown.org/simplifying/the-simplifier-5-4-is-online/#comments Wed, 24 Feb 2010 21:53:17 +0000 Lance http://lancebrown.org/?p=783 Reposted from ProjectSimplify.com:

The ninety-ninth issue of the Project Simplify newsletter The Simplifier, titled “The First Step Toward Rational Living”, is now archived on our newsletter archives page.

(There is also an audio version of this newsletter, available here.)

Here is a brief summary of the contents:

1. A Note From Shawn
It doesn’t get much simpler than this
2. Upcoming/Current Events
3. Our Featured Quote
by Eleanor Roosevelt
4. Project Simplify Says So
Getting back to the foundation; Unwanted phone calls and junk faxes; and Simplification Rules
5. Lifestyles of the Natural & Professional
Handbook Table of Contents and New Logo
6. The Not-So-Simple Life
The World’s Largest To-Do List

Read the full issue here.
Listen to the full issue here.
Subscribe to The Simplifier here.
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This issue features another edition of my column “The Not-So-Simple Life”. You can read the full column here.

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Here’s the web version: The Simplifier #5.3 – Clearing the Way!

And the audio version: The Simplifier #5.3 Audio Version

This issue includes the latest edition of my column “The Not-So-Simple Life”–it’s the last section.

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A bitter face looking back at me
The face is my own, and the bitter is too
And my regrets ensnaring me is nothing new
But something is rising– or rising again
My strength is returning like a long lost friend

Like a long lost friend who has shown up too late
Who can only observe the unrolling of my fate
And stand helpless, restrained, watching through glass
As I continue to stand, and then fall on my ass
Again and again, and again and again and again
Just beyond the reach of the help of my friend


-1/05/06

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I will keep it updated with additional cast members as they become available. Please let me know if you know of any additions by posting a comment below. (I don’t know all the actors’ names off the top of my head, but I don’t have accounts for the Dean, or Vaughan, or Britta, or Danny Pudi a.k.a. Abed. Or Chevy Chase, but I’m not holding my breath for that one.)

NOTE: NBC has also created Twitter accounts for the characters that the actors play;…

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