The Borderline Sociopathic Blog For Boys: Spam, Oatmeal, And Brandy
On a camping trip when he was 9, John concluded a fight with another boy by filching the scoutmaster’s pistol and shooting up the campsite. No one was injured, but his scouting career was over.
And come on – who hasn’t wanted to do that every once in a while?
About Bill Quick
I am a small-l libertarian with conservative leanings on most issues, except on many traditionally conservative social issues, where my stance would be regarded as hopelessly liberal by most social conservatives. My primary concern is to increase individual liberty as much as possible in the face of statist efforts to restrict it from both the right and the left. If I had to sum up my beliefs as concisely as possible, I would say, "Stay out of my wallet and my bedroom," "your liberty stops at my nose," and "don't tread on me." I will believe that things are taking a turn for the better in America when married gays are able to, and do, maintain large arsenals of automatic weapons, and tax collectors are, and do, not.
Joshua Slocum, Francis Chichester, John Fairfax. Extraordinary men by any measure. Only Fairfax did it with the power of his muscles alone, the greatest feat. Yet somehow he seems the least celebrated.
Slocum and Chichester wrote books. Perhaps Fairfax did not.