New fiction from Hartley Kane. Guy is a friend and ally, so give him a try:
https://libertyislandmag.com/2018/07/10/new-fiction-this-is-not-a-beach-book-part-1/?utm_campaign=shareaholic&utm_medium=facebook&utm_source=socialnetwork
Alex Jones of Info Wars has been banned from all social platforms except for Twitter in a single afternoon, showing that the tech giants are acting in concert for what are obviously political reasons, to suppress the speech of enemies of the Left.
In the myriad discussions surrounding this, one might hear the topic framed as a First Amendment issue, or an issue of whether private property owners may use their property as they like. I humbly suggest that neither of these grasps the basic legal issue involved.
It is not a First Amendment issue because the First Amendment is a constitutional restriction barring the Federal Government (and, by the legal fiction of the Doctrine of Incorporation, state and local governments) from passing laws and regulations restricting the natural right of freedom of speech. For obvious reasons, this analysis does not apply to private companies acting in concert.
Nor is this conspiracy in restraint of trade, so Antitrust Law, which this seems at first to violate, is also beside the point. The companies acted in collusion to prevent a widely-known public speaker from reaching his audience, because they objected to his anti-Left politics, which they call hate speech.
It is collusion, by the way, but not conspiracy. Technically, conspiracy requires an agreement to commit an unlawful act. An agreement secretly to commit a lawful but dishonorable act, such as stifling a man for his politics and pretending it is because he violated a vaguely-worded community guideline on courtesy, is collusion. It is wrong, and, in this case, may rise to the level of being sinister and threatening to the rest of us, but it is not illegal.
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Lost on the Last Continent, Episode 61, The Deadly Gastropods, is now posted.
Episode 61 The Deadly Gastropods
In this exciting episode, Colonel Lost spies out the lay of the land, unravels an ancient riddle, and forms a desperate plan.
I will be joining Zaklog the Great friends to discuss C.S. Lewis’s “The Dragon Speaks” at 9:30 Eastern. Please watch.
Here is the event link:
And there is the poem:
Once the worm-laid egg shattered in the wood.
I came forth shining into the trembling world;
The sun was on my scales, dew upon the grasses,
The cold, sweet grasses and the sticky leaves.
I loved my speckled mate. We played at druery
and sucked warm milk dropping from the ewes’ teats.
Now I keep watch on the gold in my rock cave
In a country of stones: old, deplorable dragon,
Watching my hoard. In winter night the gold
Freezes through tough scales my cold belly;
Jagged crowns, cruelly twisted rings,
Icy and knobb’d, are the old dragon’s bed.
Often I wish I had not eaten my wife
(Though worm grows not to dragon till he eats worm).
She could have helped me, watch and watch about,
Guarding the gold; the gold would have been safer.
I could uncoil my tired body and take
Sometimes a little sleep when she was watching.
Last night under the moonset a fox barked,
Startled me; then I knew I had been sleeping.
Often an owl flying over the country of stones
Startles me; then I think that I must have slept,
Only a moment. That very moment a Man
Might have come from the towns to steal my gold.
They make plots in the towns to take my gold,
They whisper of me in the houses, making plans,
Merciless men. Have they not ale upon the benches,
Warm wives in bed, and song, and sleep the whole night?
I leave my cave once only in the winter
To drink at the rock pool; in summer twice.
They have no pity for the old, lugubrious dragon.
Lord that made the dragon, grant me thy peace,
But say not that I should give up the gold,
Nor move, nor die. Others would have the gold.
Kill rather, Lord, the Men and the other dragons;
Then I can sleep; go when I will to drink.
~C.S. Lewis, Poems (1964)
A reader asked me to define the word evil. Happy to oblige:
Evil is the pursuit of good by illicit or unlawful means; or the pursuit of some lesser good at the expense of a greater, or in the wrong time or circumstances; or the use of lawful means to obtain illicit ends; or an act which is depraved in and of itself, regardless of means used or ends intended, such as torture, slavery, aborticide.
Jagi, here. We are not the only folks on the Star Wars/Not Star Wars bandwagon. Here is another that is gaining a lot of
by Bradford Walker
Lost on the Last Continent, Episode 60, Gods, Ghosts, and Shadows, is now posted.
Episode 60 Gods, Ghosts, and Shadows
In this exciting episode, Colonel Lost learns he is doomed.
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Sorry about the late posting, true believers. It was a busy day at the Wright House, but your faithful servant stayed up until after midnight, burning the candle at both ends and chewing fretfully on quill nibs, to write and post my latest offering.
Sadly, this is one of those talky-talky episodes where dire secrets and dread fates are revealed, and who cares about that? Fighting, bloodshed, and mayhem next time for sure. Or more details about neolithic canoe building and bowyering, which is what fascinates me.
