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    Zombie season is upon us(aka Halloween), and we must all discuss this very serious matter. How to protect your brain. As everyone knows, Zombie's eat brains. I  suggest listening to the song "Brains" by Voltaire, watching THIS video, and reading The Zombie Survival Guide.  

    I think it's actually easier to show off your Halloween costume by staying and giving out candy. As I'm getting a little bit old for trick-or-treating, that's what I do. I'm going as Vera Galt from a book called The Driver written by(big surprise) Garet Garrett. Pictures coming soon.

I'm just going to warn you right now, until I finish all available books by Garrett, hardly an entry will go by without my mention him.

The latest one I just finished is The People's Pottage, and it was amazing. It's a collect of three essays, The Revolution Was, Ex America, and The Rise of Empire. This is just the first few sentences from each.

The Revolution Was

There are those who still think they are holding the pass against a revolution that may be coming up the road. But they are gazing in the wrong direction. The revolution is behind them. It went by in the Night of Depression, singing songs to freedom.

Ex America

The winds that blow our billions away return burdened with themes of scorn and dispraise. There is a little brat wind that keeps saying: "But you are absurd, you Americans, like the rich, bat boy from the big house who is tolerated while he spends his money at the drugstore and then gets chased home with mud on his clothes. He is bewildered and hurt, and yet he wants so much to be liked that he does it again the next day. But this is a parable and you are probably too stupid to get it. If you do you won't believe it, and so no harm is done. You will come again tomorrow."

The Rise of Empire

As we have set them down so far, the things that signify Empire are these, namely:

1. Rise of the executive principle of government to a position of power,
2. Accommodation of domestic policy to foreign policy,
3. Ascendancy of the military mind,
4. A system of collective satellite nations for a purpose called collective security, and,
5. An emotional complex of fear and vaunting

    One of my all time favorite writers is Garet Garrett. Garrett lived from 1878-1954, and was noted for his critiques of the New Deal, and U.S. involvement in World War II. His most famous writing, is The People's Pottage, which I'm about halfway done with. Let me tell you, it's the most angry piece of writing I've ever read. Garrett hated the New Deal with a passion, because it took away the ideals that he had grown up with it, and replaced them with socialistic ones. If you ever read The People's Pottage, beware, it can get very depressing at times. But back on track. Garrett also wrote three novels, The Driver, Satan's Bushel, and The Cinder-Buggy. I read The Driver over the summer, and it's one of my most favorite books I've ever read. The problem was this. The Driver was out of print until last August, and Satan's Bushel and The Cinder-buggy were both out of print until last Tuesday. Now, all three of these wonderful novels are back in print thanks to the Mises Institute, and can be ordered online. 

    But now to the main point, I recieved my copy of Satan's Bushel this afternoon, and I'm crazily reading it. I'm already on something like page 70. Basically, it's about the price of wheat. I know, I know that sounds like the most boring book in the world, but somehow it's turned into this amazing story, filled with crazy characters, and amazing scenes. 

    What is Satan's Bushel? It is the last bushel that the farmer puts on the market that "breaks the price" – that is reduces it to the point that wheat farming is no longer profitable.