Free Public Entertainment

Tonight, I attended a "free" concert in the park. All the taxes the audience pay do not count. I would rather pay admission and have low taxes than have everyone forced to pay more in taxes for spectacles that only a small percentage of the community actually attend. Beyond the cost, another troubling aspect is that hundreds of people gathered with no visible security in this age of terror. The music was good. A number of the concert-goers danced. It occurred to almost no one that there is nothing in life that is free and by crowding in like sardines, the audience placed itself at risk.

Draw an Audience

At times, I wonder if this blog serves any productive purpose beyond an avenue for me to vent. I hear of websites where trollops shows off their assets that get a million hits a day. I had supposed that every mammalian creature of the distaff gender had similar apparatus and hoped there was much genuine interest in ideas and ideals. I could offer my opinions on whether Van Halen was better with Sammy Hagar or David Lee Roth. I could speak definitively on how Ole Miss shockingly beat Florida in Gainesville. Is that what America wants? Bread and circus with the country falling in our midst-the new Rome. We, as the Chinese curse declared, "live in interesting times." Consequential and dangerous more than most can imagine. It is not our lucre alone at stake-but our liberty and our lives. As the Loyalists said as they struggled against Fascist Franco, "Vive la libertad, companeros!"