Selected Salvos 2: From the Loose Cannon Libertarian

By Garry Reed

Selected Salvos 2 is the second collection of political, social and cultural articles from the Loose Cannon Libertarian archives in the ongoing Fun&Freedom series. Just as the original Selected Salvos anthology presented a score of articles in a writing style described by one reviewer as "bordering H.L. Mencken and Groucho Marx" with its "quick wit and colorful turn of a phrase" and another observed that the content "manages to sound a bit like Harry Browne" this entry in the series continues that tradition with more of the same. But this time there's a theme: Playboynomics, in which a pair of articles, "Tax Dollars for Sex Scholars" and "The Playboy School of Economics," chastises the use of taxpayer takings for academic research while other commentaries criticize similar economic abuses. It's a great companion to Selected Salvos 1. Both belong side by side between the libertarian bookends on your bookshelf.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Lulu.com
• Release date: Jan 10, 2015
• ISBN: 9781312824614

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Note

The publication in January, 2014 of my first anthology of articles, Selected Salvos from the Loose Cannon Libertarian, was the inaugural issue of my series that I now dub A Fun&Freedom Book.

Self-published and self-promoted, it met with such minimal success in every measurable way that I quite naturally decided to published Salvo 2.

Meanwhile I keep grinding out articles. It's my goal, after all, to cement myself firmly as a little known, seldom read, soon forgotten minor minion of the Modern American Libertarian Movement.

Thus, as I said in the opening Note of Salvo 1:

At the publication of this book the author was/is still writing two regular features for examiner.com consisting of news and opinion articles from a libertarian perspective. These Features are/were:

Libertarian News Examiner

http://www.examiner.com/libertarian-news-in-national/garry-reed

Dallas Libertarian Examiner

http://www.examiner.com/libertarian-in-dallas/garry-reed

If you don't find me at either of those places at the time this edition of essays ends up in front of your eyes it will likely be that I finally succeeded in my lofty literary ambition of libertarian anonymity.

Selected Salvos

Volley 2

From the Loose Cannon Libertarian

Garry Reed

Published by Reed Enterprises

2015

Copyright © 2015 by Garry Reed

This copyright will not be enforced by any coercive big government entity. It will be enforced by your conscience. If you republish or repost any of this content anywhere please do so for non-commercial purposes only, include the author's name, the name of this book as its source, and www.freecannon.com. Otherwise contact the author. Thank you.

First Printing: 2015

ISBN 978-1-312-81163-8

Reed Enterprises

Dallas/Fort Worth, Texas

www.freecannon.com

Dedication

This is the dedication I made in my first book, which I now commonly refer to as Salvo 1. It's so good, and still so true, that I'll make it again for Salvo 2:

To Mary – Wife, Lover, Girlfriend, Best Friend, Sweetheart Extraordinaire – the only Lady who ever would have put up with me for this long.

Contents

Tax Dollars for Sex Scholars

Naysaying the Nanny State

The Violence Virus

Uncle Shazam and his Magical Logic

Sand Dollars

Antitrust Heresy

Separation of Church and Statists

Good Government: a Hit or a Myth?

Pig in a Peignoir

A Desire Named Streetcar

Pot Shots: The War on Weed

Poetic Injustice

Conspiracy Leery

The Future in Review

Celebrities Don't Do Jail

Spying is Okay if it's Not Orwellian

Potboiler

Conscripting for Freedom

Tithing to the Church of Green

The Playboy School of Economics

Profile

Afterword

Acknowledgement

This is a big thankyou shoutout to all my intrepid Reed Readers out there who have supported me over the years on NewsGuy, Loose Cannon Libertarian, my attempts at self-syndication at River Cities Reader and That Other Paper, Dallas Libertarian Examiner, Libertarian News Examiner, websites almost too numerous to list like Freedom News Daily, Freedom for All, From Reason to Freedom, and the many various newsprint and webzines all over the freedomsphere.

Special thanks also go to those online libertarians who wrote reviews and kind words for my first Selected Salvos book, therefore helping to spread the message of individual freedom and personal responsibility.

My promise/threat, as always, is If you keep reading I'll keep writing.

Foreword

As with my first book I don't have a big famous libertarian to hype you up about my book so instead I filled this space with a really good review of my first book. Hopefully this will make you regret not buying my first book while hyping you up for reading this one.

Salvos of Fun & Freedom

by Robert A. McKeown, The Blue Collar Economist, June 21, 2014

Recently, I began reading Garry Reed's book, Selected Salvos from the Loose Cannon Libertarian and found myself enjoying every page. Garry Reed's writing style is something bordering H.L. Mencken and Groucho Marx. His quick wit and colorful turn of a phrase gives the reader something to chuckle about while being informed. After having read volumes of economics books and tomes this little collection of his articles, between 2001 and 2002, I found quite refreshing. It was like cheating on a diet with a pizza and a beer.

A Little Bio

Mr. Reed, a self-proclaimed Professional Libertarian Opinionizer, began his career in the technical writing trades, from an electro-mechanical drafter, technical illustrator/writer to logistics support analyst and supportability engineer. In 2001 he began to re-enter the libertarian activist realm by having his first five letters-to-the-editor published in the Ft. Worth Star-Telegram and Dallas Morning News.

Later, after having six more articles published for Newsguy.com, Garry proceeded to write another 149 articles for his own website, Loose Cannon Libertarian, some of which went on to be published by the Star-Telegram and LP News. He has written over 1000 online feature articles between the Dallas Libertarian Examiner and Libertarian News for Examiner.com as well. A writing portfolio that would make any blogger or writer jealous.

About the Book

Garry explains in the introduction to the book that he put his best three articles first, but I have to admit that I found each subsequent piece every bit as good as the first. The third article titled, The Future in Review piqued the Austrian Economist in me. Here, Garry would quote an actual news story taken from a well known news source and then continue to follow up with a Future News item that presented a libertarian response. In economics we could call this the short term-long term effect. Something Thomas Sowell would call "thinking past