6. Barry Bonds Committed the Unforgiveable Sin
THE UNFORGIVEABLE SIN
STERIODS, SCHMEROIDS: NO ASTERISKS FOR BARRY,PLEASE
As a kid growing up in the frigid northeast, winter seemed without end. Any small sign of spring was dashed by the inevitable “surprise” snowstorm in early March. But there was one infallible symbol of spring’s inevitability,
“Baseball’s Spring Training camps open in Florida,” blared the sport’s pages.
7. They Are Coming to Get Me (or Am I Paranoid?)
ME (OR AM I PARANOID?)
8. Are You a Threat to Liberty? Take the Blumert Test and Other Impertenent Essays
TAKE THE BLUMERT TEST AND
OTHER IMPERTENENT ESSAYS
IN DEFENSE OF Y2K EXTREMISTS
She said in her soft sunbelt drawl, “I want to talk to the owner of Camino Coin.” “This is Burt Blumert. How may I help?”
“Gary North made me buy gold coins from you people. He said that if I didn’t I would be in big trouble due to Y2K. It happened under false pretenses.”
9. Five People in the World Understand Gold and They Have Six Different Opinions
UNDERSTAND GOLD AND THEY
HAVE SIX DIFFERENT OPINIONS
MAINTAINING YOUR SANITY WHEN GOLD DROPS $45
During an earlier lifetime I spent several years as assistant to Morris Colliers, an elegant Southern gentleman who kept an inventory of charming aphorisms and proverbs that he smoothly produced in a blink.
“If you hang by the neck long enough, you’ll get used to it,” was one of the old gent’s favorites and it got stuck in my consciousness as well,
10. The War Between the Sexes and Emulating “Mr. First Nighter”
H.L. MENCKEN’S IN DEFENSE OF WOMEN
Give me a minute and I’ll list the advantages that accrue with aging. Unhhh. Can I have another minute? If the years provide any accumulated wisdom, it is buried under layers of scar tissue. The other, overrated reward of surviving seven decades, “experience,” was once defined as the residue of failure.
11. Reminiscences of Murray Rothbard and Other Great Men
MURRAY ROTHBARD
AND OTHER GREAT MEN
REMINISCENCES OF MURRAY
Contrary to wide misconception, Murray Rothbard never hated trees or mountains—he simply believed in keeping such natural intrusions in their place.
They were okay as long as they didn’t threaten his safety or comfort. I recall once, when a pal of ours was off climbing a mountain, Murray commented: “Sam could save time and energy by walking around it.”
Index
advertising, impotence medications, 139–40
aging, attitudes toward, 142–47
AIDS, films dealing with, 316–17
Air Force, Blumert’s service in, 52–56, 284–85
airport security, 11–14, 19–20
air travel, 11–15, 16–18, 19–23
Ali, Mohammad, 203
alternative medicine, 130–32, 135–37
American Independent Party, 91–92
And the Band Played On, 316
Andromeda Strain, The, 317
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In Restraint of Trade
In Restraintof Trade
In Restraint
of Trade
