Curt Doolittle

Category: Personal Reflections and Diary

  • LOVING THE PEOPLE YOU FEEL PRIVILEGED TO KNOW Today is one of those days where,

    LOVING THE PEOPLE YOU FEEL PRIVILEGED TO KNOW

    Today is one of those days where, I just realize how lucky I am for the friends I have.

    Do you ever just say to yourself “Wow, so and so, is just such an amazing human being, and I can’t believe I get to live on this planet with him (or her)”?

    I do. All the time.

    For me, these people that I just love to death arent famous or privileged – what they share is that they’re good souls and loyal. And they tend to have a craft, specialty, or particular insight. I would have to make a list of a hundred names just to scratch the surface of it. But about three dozen of them are people for whom I feel particular love and awe.

    Source date (UTC): 2014-01-31 17:45:00 UTC

  • (funny) “I’m trapped here until I get some clothes.” – Roman Skaskiw Invent your

    (funny)

    “I’m trapped here until I get some clothes.” – Roman Skaskiw

    Invent your own story behind THAT quote……

    Source date (UTC): 2014-01-30 10:52:00 UTC

  • (I love text and email culture. I hate talking on the phone. Always have. )

    (I love text and email culture. I hate talking on the phone. Always have. )

    Source date (UTC): 2014-01-30 04:42:00 UTC

  • Seriously. I’m just running around trying to make jobs and wealth and I feel lik

    Seriously. I’m just running around trying to make jobs and wealth and I feel like most of my energy goes to avoiding state sponsored vampires.

    Source date (UTC): 2014-01-28 06:50:00 UTC

  • Why doesn’t the government just come out and say “It’s open season on white prot

    Why doesn’t the government just come out and say “It’s open season on white protestant males!”

    Cause that’s how I feel these days.

    Source date (UTC): 2014-01-28 06:47:00 UTC

  • LIFE LESSONS : A YEAR AND A HALF OF RECUPERATION AND EXPLORATION The capitalist

    LIFE LESSONS : A YEAR AND A HALF OF RECUPERATION AND EXPLORATION

    The capitalist in me does not like very much what I’ve learned.

    The scientist in me forces me to accept it.

    The economist in me is surprised at what I have learned.

    The philosopher in me is fascinated.

    The male in me is overjoyed.

    The enlightenment experiment with government is almost over. It will die with the boomers, like the socialist experiment has died. But so will the anglo form of capitalism. It was very good while it lasted.

    Source date (UTC): 2014-01-25 10:39:00 UTC

  • ONE STEP CLOSER TO TAX FREEDOM Rec’d notice from IRS today that they’ve released

    ONE STEP CLOSER TO TAX FREEDOM

    Rec’d notice from IRS today that they’ve released everything. So, the bad part is that they almost killed my company for the simple reason that they don’t use the internet and email – because anyone in the world can find my phone number in under five minutes. which they didn’t do.

    The good part is that, as I said all along. I don’t owe them money.

    Sigh.

    Now, assuming they don’t start shooting people here tonight I’ll sleep better.

    Source date (UTC): 2014-01-23 15:01:00 UTC

  • FEAR IN UKRAINE Ok. Well. Gotta say. I don’t feel safe here now. I knew it would

    FEAR IN UKRAINE

    Ok. Well. Gotta say. I don’t feel safe here now.

    I knew it would escalate to molotovs. I didn’t count on fake ‘protesters’ (soldiers dressed as civilians) trying to set up the real protesters. I didn’t count on Russian sponsorship of the regime. I didn’t count on the administration outlawing every possible means of resistance under the sun. And now that the police have graduated to shooting protesters dead, it’s kind of getting out of hand.

    The country is financially unstable, and can MAYBE hold out another year before collapsing economically again.

    We are moving further away from the center in the morning.

    Source date (UTC): 2014-01-22 13:19:00 UTC

  • Reposting

    Reposting.

    Source date (UTC): 2014-01-20 13:32:00 UTC

  • You sort of, I suspect, deterministically, get to where you understand why Socra

    You sort of, I suspect, deterministically, get to where you understand why Socrates wanted to just walk-on-out of Athens. Because It’s just seems hopeless.

    But it’s not. It’s just too high a standard to hold others too.

    Just because equality is not possible, that doesn’t mean a chance for dramatic improvement isn’t readily available, or even probable.

    So, you just plant a bunch of seeds, because the people in your moment, may not be the one’s who harvest them.

    And in all reality, it’s just that, while you think the relative distance is very great, you’re only a teensy-tiny bit ahead of the curve in absolute terms.

    And someday that marginal difference will be assumed to be as natural, obvious and taken for granted as gravity; and the prior state of affairs as inconceivable a distance as your perception of the difference between the past norms and your present understanding.

    Source date (UTC): 2014-01-17 14:34:00 UTC