Funny Stories: Linguistic Confusion
So my oldest son had a Japanese girlfriend for a while, whose name was Ai, pronounced like the letter i. She was a fashion student at
So my oldest son had a Japanese girlfriend for a while, whose name was Ai, pronounced like the letter i. She was a fashion student at
Wherein I embarrass my coworkers to my own amusement. So when I was working in construction, we were over in the Cheviot Hills area of
14 Material Conditions and Ideal Ends Hayek mentions that his generation likes to flatter itself that it give less weight to economic matters than previous
I was a youth leader at a little Baptist church up in Monrovia. After about 5 years I moved on. But while I was serving
12 The Socialist Roots of Nazism The doctrines of National Socialism are the culmination of a long evolution of thought. The men who produced the
11 The End of Truth The most effective way to make everybody serve the single system of ends towards which the social plan is directed
I worked in construction as a mason for about 12 years. If you don’t know, a mason works with bricks, block, stone, and in our
10 Why the Worst Get On Top Many have attributed the most repellent parts of totalitarian regimes to a historical accident that they happened to
9 Security and Freedom “the whole of society will have to become a single office and a single factory with equality of work and equality
8 Who, Whom? One of the most common objections to free-market competition is that it is blind. But we picture justice as a lady with
“I have more intellectual pursuits, and less intellect with which to pursue them.“
This website was formerly “the TL;DR place” on tumblr. But I occasionally posted things that I wanted others to see, and they were unable to access the content without tumblr accounts. I called the blog the TL;DR place because the writing I do here is essentially a place for me to process through my thoughts. Most of my friend group isn’t all that interested in the same things, so I write rather than talk through it.
The domain name is a play on my name: David Laurance. David is of Hebrew origin and means something like “beloved”, and my middle name “Laurance” is derived from the name of a great aunt “Laura” back somewhere in the ancestry. The male equivalent is Lawrence, or Larry…. so… “beloved Larry” > everyone loves Larry.