Patience

by Lindy Davies

It would be sensible and charitable, I think, to afford some patience to the Georgist movement — to tolerate a measure of idiosyncracy — to refrain from harsh judgement of our displaying some, shall we say, eccentricities — perhaps even somehow learning to value, or even celebrate our, well, oddness. Continue reading

Oh, That Crisis

by Lindy Davies

To hear left-leaning folks at places like Common Dreams tell it, we should’ve done something serious about global warming twenty years ago: the glaciers are melting, seas rising, hurricanes intensifying and the polar bears are doomed. Al Gore is the hero of the day, and sentient beings everywhere are all pretty much screwed. I don’t understand why this news is presented with a kind of unnerving, told-ya-so glee, but it is. Continue reading

The White Issue

by Lindy Davies

The Beatles released “The White Album” in 1968. The intital reviews weren’t so good, but at least two generations of listeners have loved the record and repurchased it on each new media format. The Fab Four themselves thought of it as their “breakup album” — they weren’t, always, even together when they were recording it; they were in different studios, on different tracks. You couldn’t really blame them. Continue reading

Are We Disreputable?

 by Lindy Davies

Should we be concentrating on the B region, or the A region, of that glass of water? Ah, well — psychologically, motivationally, we know the answer, but at times it’s a little hard to keep the faith. Recently I’ve gotten three rather telling signals of how much traction Georgism, or the Single Tax, is getting in today’s marketplace of ideas, and the news isn’t good. Continue reading