Dumb Looks Still Free

What is Full Spectrum War? First off it is not Total War.  Total War is that form of war done between Nation States that sees the productive capacity of a combatant Nation as the source of its...

http://ajacksonian.blogspot.com/2014/09/full-spectrum-war.html

I've been pretty swamped getting a miter saw stand/cart designed and putting it together, plus a large number of items are happening otherwise.  This is the year the deck has to be replaced, alo...

http://ajacksonian.blogspot.com/2014/07/state-of-events.html

This last winter I struggled through the end of my router table build and then started in on building up some of my manual hand planing skills while deciding what to do next.  In the way of in-s...

http://ajacksonian.blogspot.com/2014/05/shop-changes.html

There are two interesting corporate issues currently under discussion. First is the Hobby Lobby case, in which the owners of a corporation hold religious views that prevent them from supporting...

http://ajacksonian.blogspot.com/2014/04/two-cases.html

Malaysian Flight 370 has given rise to a lot of speculation and, with the sighting of debris off the cost of Perth Australia,  hopefully the final hours of the flight will become known.  Sadly,...

http://ajacksonian.blogspot.com/2014/03/methodology-applied-to-strange-case.html

What is disruptive technology?  It is technology that brings in a change to our understanding of what is fundamental to a system.  Computers changed how businesses processed information which m...

http://ajacksonian.blogspot.com/2014/02/disruptive-technology.html

This is one of those times where a single statistic can open up a wealth of insight, and yet it does not come from our present but our past.  This one is coming from the Open Yale courses , whic...

http://ajacksonian.blogspot.com/2014/02/one-interesting-stat-from-early-modern.html

Now open your books, class... Image Courtesy: Wikipedia That is a picture of a late 14th century classroom at the University of Bologna. Image Courtesy: medievalists.net That is a me...

http://ajacksonian.blogspot.com/2014/01/why-modern-education-isn.html

A personal retrospective on my physical well-being. I hope to get some more normal posts up, but such is life. Late in 2004 I began a trip into a land of darkness where my mind was slowly los...

http://ajacksonian.blogspot.com/2014/01/recovery.html

My main project for the past year has been working on a router table for my workshop.  I don't have much time to do such work and things that take me well nigh forever would take someone who was...

http://ajacksonian.blogspot.com/2013/12/in-workshoprouter-table.html

Normally I don't do much in the way of examining plays, opera or the like, which is not to say that I haven't been to same and enjoyed them, but my ability to actually find a production that I mi...

http://ajacksonian.blogspot.com/2013/12/the-play-thing.html

Examining the Declaration of Independence past the famous opening lines shows a type of society that is unique amongst mankind.  It is a society that is tolerant of much in the way of government...

http://ajacksonian.blogspot.com/2013/11/evils-of-government.html

The 20th century is over and it left a long, blood-stained path behind it.  Unfortunately our political class is married to it, still, and continue to campaign like the 20th century is still goi...

http://ajacksonian.blogspot.com/2013/10/voting-in-21st-century.html

Part of going through inventory and cleaning out old junk, mostly boxes that had a single small item in it or things that should be consolidated like my cord and nylon web pieces, was moving stuf...

http://ajacksonian.blogspot.com/2013/10/sub-pack-for-field-target-pistol.html

From dictionary.reference.com: > TAC·TICS >  >   >  > noun  >  > 1.  ( usually used with a singular verb ) the art >  or science of disposing > military or naval f...

http://ajacksonian.blogspot.com/2013/09/what-are-tactics-and-what-is-strategy.html

On previous posts I went about the process of Selecting a gun safe and then Narrowing gun safe selection , which gave my criteria for what a safe must have, should have and be nice to have.  Wh...

http://ajacksonian.blogspot.com/2013/08/gun-safe-selection.html

The following is a cross-post from The Jacksonian Party. When looking at the US Constitution I take a view of it as a structuralist, that is to say that the form of government is given as a str...

http://ajacksonian.blogspot.com/2013/08/passively-implicit.html

Arthur B. Laffer, of the famous Laffer Curve, puts forth that e-commerce sales taxes could be used to cut income taxes in a 17 JUL 2013 USA Today article.  But this brings up the question of no...

http://ajacksonian.blogspot.com/2013/07/taxation-via-sales.html

> A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, > butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, > balance accounts, build a wal...

http://ajacksonian.blogspot.com/2013/07/jobs-that-don-go-away.html

In the justice system of the US the individual is presumed innocent until proven guilty.  There is a system of law built on that assumption and its framework requiring requests to seek personal ...

http://ajacksonian.blogspot.com/2013/06/presumed-guilty.html

This is yet another post to show the types of things eating into my time. Anyone who has been to past posts, like this one from JAN 2013 , has noted that my limited work environment is more lik...

http://ajacksonian.blogspot.com/2013/05/workshop-in-work.html

Greetings to all and sundry in the collective!  The collective greets itself! We are happy to report that the fundamental transformation, whilst slowing, continues even if it is at a snails pa...

http://ajacksonian.blogspot.com/2013/05/memo-to-collective.html

Yet more of my raw commentary from Hot Air , this on the long starting IRS scandal with the investigation of conservative non-profit organizations, which we are also getting hints of it going to ...

http://ajacksonian.blogspot.com/2013/05/partisanship-isn-all-political.html

This is a set of musings on the nature of blogging brought on via a post at Stacy McCain's site Where Were You in 2002 ? (h/t: Insty ). Seeing Overlawyered moving over to Cato spurred on the ...

http://ajacksonian.blogspot.com/2013/04/neither-portal-nor-destination-be.html

What is the End Game of the global elites against freedom and liberty?  We can see its path by addicting populations to 'social' provisions such as 'retirement' and 'health care', which are diff...

http://ajacksonian.blogspot.com/2013/04/end-game-against-freedom.html