I read Walden once a year to reenergize my passion for simple living and nature. Along with a few other favorites like ‘Walking’ and ‘A Winter Walk.’. hmmm, I see a pattern. Hiking, or rather, sauntering about the forest with no destination and no time limits is my fav hobby.
The FSP sounds intriguing. But I have to stick to a conservative state - after escaping the idiocy of mexifornia, I refuse to live surrounded by liberals ever again. But could learn from your events in the porcfest, for sure.
“The FSP sounds intriguing. But I have to stick to a conservative state - after escaping the idiocy of mexifornia, I refuse to live surrounded by liberals ever again.”
Depends on your definition of “conservative.” If you’re looking for a state that has no income tax, no sales tax, great gun laws, a fairly homogenous population, a very high ratio of legislators to legislated, and a tradition of leaving people the hell alone, you could do a lot worse than NH. Unfortunately, people tend to look at strictly the D versus R without digging a little deeper. I think I could tolerate a D governor of NH who has stuck to her pledge to not tolerate a sales or income tax a lot better than I could our former R governor who happily jacked up our taxes in VA while mouthing the conservative line.
While I’m not a libertarian and don’t play one on TV, I found myself in an odd quandary. Do I go along with the libertarians whom I agree with 75% of the time who have good plans and are executing them, or do I wait around for conservatives whom I agree with 95% of the time but have no plan other than heightened participation in a generally failed electoral system?
I don’t have another 50 years to dither.