B.R. Merrick's Columns

My Day in Court

"Paying this stupid fine would be an admission of defeat.  More importantly, it would be an admission of guilt when there was none, to an unaccountable body of judges and cops who couldn’t read their own damned signs.  It therefore, in a way, would become a voluntary tax, and I will pay no voluntary taxes.  There was a principle worth fighting for here.  As an anarchist, I knew that I would have to fight."  Column by B.R. Merrick.

 

Those Damned Mormons!

"Tolerance also means you have to put up with my libertarian-anarchist views.  Tolerance means living in the same neighborhood with a gun enthusiast.  Tolerance means living next to a black family, not taking someone else’s money with your hired guns to keep the black family in its place, far away from you.  Tolerance, for all its current pomposity, is a generally uncomfortable word when it is truly understood."  Column by B.R. Merrick.

 

Everything I Ever Needed to Know About Public School

...I learned from Calvin & Hobbes comic books.  Column by B.R. Merrick.

 

Thomas Edison Rolls in His Grave

His light bulb has been banned.  Column by B.R. Merrick.

 

An Open Letter to David Horowitz

"It would also be another chance for me to purge myself of my former neocon views, flawed ideas and faulty beliefs that have now aided in killing untold thousands of innocents."  Column by B.R. Merrick.

 

The Breakup With My Lover

"I watched television in place of doing.  I watched television in place of dreaming, thinking, talking, walking, and anything else in place of working."  Column by new Root Striker B.R. Merrick.