The Libertarian Opposition is Rising…
by Sean Dempsey When the shots were quiet and the dust was blown…When last all my innocence I’d outgrown—When I’d fought and killed, hands stained red,The last one standing, or so they said— I rose and looked around the Killing FieldWhere no broken soul was ever healed.And I yearned to find someone to hate;I sought […]
by Sean Dempsey 5/30/24 It is a soul-wrenching philosophical irony that throughout time the core of Humanity, the essence of what it is to be Man, is either slave or slaver. Bifurcated or Bifurcator Man was a slave in Egypt and Babylon; he was prosecuted under the Third Reich; he was a victim of Genocides […]
BURLINGTON VT—This week the University of Vermont launched a new Texas Hold’em Poker Club for amateur card players and aspiring professionals alike. The new collegiate program boasts over a hundred and sixty-six members (a decade-long record for intervarsity extracurricular participation). The founders of the UVM Poker Club have a unique spin on the game that […]
By Sean Dempsey01/26/24 Someone recently asked me how I attained the properties in my real estate portfolio. And to be honest I had to stop and think for a moment. Time has a monotonous way of making someone simply put one foot ahead of the other and then the next so that the entire journey […]
by Sean Dempsey1/23/24 Plato’s allegory of the cave is one of the greatest stories of philosophy. It allows us to understand how the Greek philosophers once perceived the world. The tale involves a metaphorical explanation in which a human is faced with raw knowledge and unfiltered Truth. In his allegory, Plato explains how the existence […]
By Sean Dempsey 1/3/24 The magnanimous Left — it co-opts and destroys. It pillages and brings all good to ruin. It demeans the spoken word; it pierces the purest thought. It violates and corrupts the most sublime concepts. The year is 2020. With righteous magnanimity, the Left besmirches the refined beauty of Science and turn […]
The last twelve months have been an interesting time for investing. So as the year draws to a close, I thought it would be fun and enlightening to outline and report on my various prospects, successes, and failures embarked in 2023 for anyone interested to observe. I will “open the kimono,” so to speak, to […]
The best laid plans of mice and men— Are worthless then, now, and again. Man plans, God laughs; tides rise and ebb; For spinsters weave such gilded webs… The rain will come, despite his plans; Quakes will shake the toughest land; And though man tries to own his fate, A firm grasp of sand shall […]
By Sean Dempsey, 11/5/23 Who is this brazen Stranger—Who would DARE of freedom dream—To crave a land, of strife and sand,Be filled not with children’s screams? “Perhaps a stop to bloodshedMight slow the endless ring—Reveal God’s ken; we’re all still men!Let us see what love can bring…” But the Wisemen speak to fancy:“This war will […]
By Sean Dempsey, 10/09/23 Who threw the first punch? It matters not. But I DO remember Today’s killing shot. — Some time ago… After he pulled my hair I kicked his shin His teeth were bared When he hit my chin I pulled a knife And stabbed his old dog So he grabbed up a […]