I blog because it is always a good idea to write on timeless, fundamental issues. Many of my readers think that the whole agenda behind this blog is to impress you with my vocabulary. I will let it pass as if I try to justify myself here, you would end up wondering why I am being so defensive. We might get along well without getting into all that. But, then we just ‘might’.

My writing philosophy is not much different from that of H. L. Mencken: “You ask me, in brief, what satisfaction I get out of life, and why I go on working. I go on working for the same reason that a hen goes on laying eggs. The precise form of an individual’s activity is determined, of course, by the equipment with which he came into the world. In other words, it is determined by his heredity. I do not lay eggs, as a hen does, because I was born without any equipment for it. For the same reason I do not get myself elected to Congress, or play the violoncello, or teach metaphysics in a college, or work in a steel mill. What I do is simply what lies easiest to my hand. It happens that I was born with an intense and insatiable interest in ideas, and thus like to play with them. It happens also that I was born with rather more than the average facility for putting them into words. In consequence, I am a writer and editor, which is to say, a dealer in them and concoctor of them. At other times, like any other relatively poor man, I have longed to make a lot of money by some easy swindle. But I became a writer all the same, and shall remain one until the end of the chapter, just as a cow goes on giving milk all her life, even though what appears to be her self-interest urges her to give gin. I have done, in the main, exactly what I wanted to do. Its possible effects upon other people have interested me very little. I have not written and published to please other people, but to satisfy myself, just as a cow gives milk, not to profit the dairyman, but to satisfy herself. I like to think that most of my ideas have been sound ones, but I really don’t care. The world may take them or leave them. I have had my fun hatching them.”

If you are so desperate that you badly need someone humble even when you are moving the cursor on a web page, you are free to read some politically correct libertarian’s blog. There are a few things I really hate: God, government, schooling, fraud, folly and tyranny. I know that it is not exactly hip and cool, but I believe in the old fashioned code of common sense, common honesty & common decency.