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Bretigne Shaffer

Bretigne Shaffer

BUT WHO WOULD BUILD THE ROAAAAAAAAADS?!??!?!?!?!

It’s funny how complete untruths can be transformed into the kind of certainties that become the foundation for an entire generation’s…

Jul 27, 2016

BUT WHO WOULD BUILD THE ROAAAAAAAAADS?!??!?!?!?!

Jul 27, 2016

Bretigne Shaffer

Abusive Power and the Culture of Obedience

“But rightful liberty is unobstructed action according to our will within limits drawn around us by the equal rights of others. I do not…

Jul 13, 2016

Abusive Power and the Culture of Obedience

Jul 13, 2016

Bretigne Shaffer

Kunta Kinte Had it Coming

I remember watching this scene when it first appeared, in the TV miniseries adaptation of Alex Haley’s Roots, in 1977. This scene was…

Jul 9, 2016

Kunta Kinte Had it Coming

Jul 9, 2016

Bretigne Shaffer

What Americans Can Learn from the Vietnamese

This is something I wrote (gulp!) more than 20 years ago. I’m re-posting it here because I think it is instructive regarding the financial…

Jul 6, 2016

What Americans Can Learn from the Vietnamese

Jul 6, 2016

Bretigne Shaffer

No, I Don’t Support the Troops

I usually stay pretty quiet on Memorial Day. I know that it’s one of the times people are least likely to be open to hearing my views on…

May 31, 2016

May 31, 2016

Bretigne Shaffer

Remembering Mr. Miyamoto

“People don’t want to confront… that their government could have done something like this unless it was absolutely necessary. …it’s almost…

May 10, 2016

May 10, 2016

Bretigne Shaffer

Mythical Creatures

There’s a poster up at the front of the room with a cartoon mouse painting at an easel, and the words “Express Yourself!” But every time…

Apr 28, 2016

Mythical Creatures

Apr 28, 2016

Bretigne Shaffer

Fear and Flying, Then and Now

In 1988, I fled college without having graduated, saved a little bit of money and got on an airplane for Taiwan. Martial law had just been…

Apr 21, 2016

Fear and Flying, Then and Now

Apr 21, 2016

Bretigne Shaffer

Dog-Eat-Dog Statism for Special-Needs Families: You’re Either at the Table or You’re on the Menu

I wouldn’t have expected a conference on therapy for children with autism and related disorders to have much to say about politics, but in…

Apr 13, 2016

Dog-Eat-Dog Statism for Special-Needs Families: You’re Either at the Table or You’re on the Menu

Apr 13, 2016

Bretigne Shaffer

Must We Choose Between Mob Justice and the Police State?

On May 25, 1911, Laura Nelson, her baby daughter and her teenaged son were kidnapped from a jail in Oklahoma by an angry mob. The two had…

Mar 3, 2016

Must We Choose Between Mob Justice and the Police State?

Mar 3, 2016

Bretigne Shaffer

Bretigne Shaffer

http://www.bretigne.com: voluntaryist, pro-peace, anti-state, former journalist, yoga, ballet, Austrian econ, author: Urban Yogini http://www.urban-yogini.com

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