Chaos Scenario, a blog my younger brother is a contributor of, has made the The Viral Garden’s Top 25 Marketing Blogs. Cam also served in the Marines attaining the rank of sergeant, so way to represent!

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It is very probable—almost certain—that the great mass of men . . .were utterly unconscious, that their conditions, or their minds were capable of improvement. They not only looked upon the educated few as superior beings; but they supposed […]

This one was drawn and inked by me, and colored by Turner Hilliker. Turner is a James Madison University student who comes in once a week to help with the T-shirt art. During the summer, when school was out, he worked full-time for us. As you can see, he does a bang-up […]

My dad was stationed on Cherry Point when I was in high school. I was never arrested by the MPs, but I was stopped a time or two for looking suspicious. What can I say — I have naturally beady eyes.

My little monsters at bedtime. Be afraid. Be very afraid.

Continued from part 2
Part 3 of 3: Proof of Knowledge
Not every college is going to give credit for learning to draw and animate (although mine did so it’s not unheard of). I advocate that where the credetial isn’t required, evidence of expertise is all that is needed. Still, one may argue that […]

Continued from part 1
Part 2 of 3: The Gift of Knowledge
According to Eric S. Raymond in his essay about open-source development, “The Cathedral & the Bazaar,” the free market is an exchange economy based on the trading of scarce goods and services. Scarcity is what creates the value. Raymond argues that a gift economy, […]

Part 1 of 3: Finding the Right Words
No one has ever been “self-educated.” The term itself is wrong. It is a misnomer that is evidence of society’s inability to find the right words to describe the education process behind those who have not been educated in formal institutions. Frederick Douglass, as […]

Here is a picture I finished this weekend. I didn’t draw it; I just painted it. The original sketch was done by artist, Ben Caldwell and posted on Drawingboard.org. Ben did such a great job with the composition that I felt it needed to be painted.