New from Wisconsin

[SilenceDoGood]

Thanks, Paul! Though I've forgotten most of the names, the 1967 Packer starting lineup was kind of required learning as I was growing up. My father placed Lombardi in the same category as President Reagan and Jesus Christ. My kids were put on the waiting list for season tickets the day they were born; they should receive them in about 30 years.

[Wyowoman]

Hello there, haven't had a chance to welcome you so - Welcome! 
I was just reading an article and there was a quote from someone with the same name "Silencedogood" from another online forum/discussion group. 

Anyway, glad you found your way here, congrats on your move to Wy.

[FlyingDevildog]

Welcome Ms Silence

from a flatlander   

Devildog

[JenS]

Here is the current thread on the libertarian paper discussion: http://www.fundamentalsoffreedom.com/fswforum//index.php?topic=4582.0

[SilenceDoGood]

Thanks, everyone.

Jen, all this talk of starting a newspaper/ newsletter reminded me of something I did in high school. When the whole Elian Gonzalez story broke, some friends and I (who deemed ourselves Revolutionaries) put together a newsletter, Common Sense. We included stats regarding how many members of Congress had been convicted of crimes, refreshers on the 1st and 2nd amendments, and some current news, including refreshers on Waco and Ruby Ridge.
Our lack of originality not-with-standing, we spray painted a white bedsheet that read "Ruby Ridge... Waco... Elian Gonzalez... Who's Next?" and hung it on the college campus in town.
We expected our message to hit people so hard. But no one ran screaming in the night, no one hit the streets with torches and pitchforks, no reaction whatsoever. The banner had been removed in the night, and nothing was ever said about it.?
We were crushed. Our newsletter lasted one issue, and everyone else in the group decided to rearrange their heirarchy of needs; drinking and getting laid we on the list. Changing the world wasn't.
I still think words and ideas can change this world, but I have to say it was a great experience. Nobody got hurt, we broke no laws (though it felt like it at the time!), and I think it separated those of us who were serious about it from those who weren't, under the best of circumstances.

Just a little story I wanted to share.

[Paul Bonneau]

Interesting story Silence. I too set out to save the world, and found the world does not want to be saved. If you think about it, that's not such a bad thing after all, because there are an awful lot of world-savers out there, including such as gun prohibitionists, anti-smokers and what-not.

I've always been comforted by Nock's essay, Isaiah's Job. It's a help.

[Seniortech]

Paul,
Thanks for your reference to "Isaiah's Job"
I had not read that before, and there IS some comfort in those words of wisdom.

It was a pleasure to meet you at the Jam, and it is a pleasure to read your oftentimes
profound observations in these threads.

John

[planetaryjim]

I've always been comforted by Nock's essay, Isaiah's Job. It's a help.

Yes, that's a great essay.  Truly a classic.  It ought to be a featured editorial in the first issue of the newspaper.

I also like SilenceDoGood's newsletter name, "Common Sense."  Some of you recall that Tom Paine wrote an essay by that name, with some excellent words.  He also wrote a series of essays called "The American Crisis."  I wonder if these ideas might be combined somehow? 

My thought is a newspaper entitled "The Wyoming Crisis" with a subtitle, "Common Sense for the Remnant."

But, I guess I should post this idea on the newspaper thread.