One day, I was 16 or so, I happened to spill three glasses of milk or water etc. in the course of one day. A cup of coffee spilled at breakfast, maybe a glass of milk at dinner, and a then another glass of milk … Little did I know but with each spill my paranoid dad was getting ever more paranoid. After the third one, he gets this bug-eyed look and yells, “ARE YOU ON DRUGS?!!!” and I just burst out laughing, infuriating him.
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Stephan Kinsella is a libertarian writer and retired patent attorney in Houston, Texas. He has published widely on various areas of libertarian legal theory and on legal topics such as intellectual property law and international law. His publications include Legal Foundations of a Free Society (Papinian Press, 2023), Against Intellectual Property (Mises Institute, 2008), International Investment, Political Risk, and Dispute Resolution: A Practitioner’s Guide (Oxford, 2020), and The Universal Principles of Liberty (2025).
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