...is that I can't write at the same time. I can't watch, and yet I can't look away.
They're talking over each other.
I thought: I'll write a few things about the debate in my email.
But it's happening so fast, I can't. I'll have to make my comments in tomorrow's recap episode of the Tom Woods Show with Lew Rockwell.
Sometimes, though, it's still nice to imagine a world in which we don't have to care who the president is, or who the Supreme Court justices are.
Kevin Gutzman pointed out on the Tom Woods Show that John Jay, our first Chief Justice, had so little to do that he could go abroad and negotiate the Jay Treaty. When he came back, he found that he had been elected governor of New York in his absence. So he informed George Washington that he had to go do that. Then later, when he had another chance to serve on the Supreme Court, he declined.
Yep, that sounds about right.
It'd be nice if instead our lives revolved around how we serve each other, without coercion.
That's what this list is about.
When it comes down to it, you and I can't do a thing about what happens in Washington. Not a thing.
What we can do is create the best lives we can for ourselves and for those who matter to us.
My daughter, 15, just opened her own Etsy store. That's more important to her freedom than any vote she will ever cast.
I'm opening my own online store (which can't be shut down) before year's end, as another way to make sure my family is secure against whatever craziness awaits America in the future.
I got in touch with Donald Wilson, the CEO of the platform I'll be using to build that store and had him on the Tom Woods Show today. He's as anti-lockdown as I am, it turns out, and we became fast friends.
Since he opened it in 2015, people selling on his platform have made over $100 million in sales, so he knows a teensy bit about this.
I like the idea of my daughter knowing how to run a store that can't be shut down, even before she finishes high school.
Imagine if we'd all learned that.
Here's how you can learn it:
Tom Woods