Articles Posted by Eric Bandholz

Eric Bandholz is the founder of the marketing company Sovrnty Communications and the search engine Bingle.nu. He is passionate about freedom, investing, style, and being awesome. His articles are written under Creative Commons 3.0 – copy his articles and do with it what you will, but please attribute the works to Bandholz.com or Eric Bandholz.

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    The wind in my beard

    by Eric Bandholz on Feb 02, 2012 | No Comments

    On Monday afternoon I was walking back to my truck in downtown Spokane. I reckon a front was coming through as a nice breeze was blowing in the air. It was at that moment I…

    Posted in Art, Beards, Featured

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    Metronomy – She Wants

    by Eric Bandholz on Jan 30, 2012 | No Comments

    Metronomy is rolled out this chill song “She Wants” about 12 months ago and we absolutely love it. The video is played out in slow motion with lots of references to clocks and time pieces.…

    Posted in Featured, Videos

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    2012 West Coast Beard and Championship Photos

    by Eric Bandholz on Jan 25, 2012 | 2 Comments

    Here are the photos that my friend Justin took during our adventure to Portland for the 2012 West Coast Beard and Mustache Championship. These are just a select few of some of the awesome beards and…

    Posted in Beards, Featured

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    2012 West Coast Beard and Mustache Championship wrap up

    by Eric Bandholz on Jan 24, 2012 | No Comments

    (Click to enlarge the above image – I’m on the right. Photo by Sol Neelman) Holy fucking shit! This weekend of competitive bearding was absolutely incredible. Why I haven’t been going to these events all…

    Posted in Beards, Featured, Travel

  • Training the beard

    Competitive bearding and beard training

    by Eric Bandholz on Jan 20, 2012 | No Comments

    Well tomorrow I start my competitive bearding career and we head down to Portland to prepare for the 2012 West Coast Beard and Mustache Championship. I have been diligently training with hopes of coming back with some…

    Posted in Beards, Featured

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    What about Net Neutrality?

    by Eric Bandholz on Jan 19, 2012 | No Comments

    Yesterday we blacked out our website to help raise awareness for a destructive bill called SOPA. The SOPA bill pretty much gives the government power to shut down websites in response to copyright infringement –…

    Posted in Capitalism, Economics, Featured

  • Edgar the Exploiter

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    Edgar the Exploiter

    by Eric Bandholz on Jan 16, 2012 | 3 Comments

    About a year ago a video called George Ought to Help came out and introduced viewers to the concept of a voluntary society. It showed us that force is currently all around us and money is…

    Posted in Capitalism, Economics, Videos

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    Amish be hatin’ on other beards!

    by Eric Bandholz on Jan 13, 2012 | 3 Comments

    Well, this is something you don’t run across too often. Apparently, some Amish guys in Ohio have been accused of hate crimes for cutting other men’s beards. First things first, you never mess with another…

    Posted in Around the Web, Beards

  • Beards and marriage

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    Grow a beard to save a marriage

    by Eric Bandholz on Jan 12, 2012 | No Comments

    Gotta love this guys outlook on growing a beard. Clint Darden makes some very interesting points about dealing with a wife who is against growing a beard and he gets a nice gift from his…

    Posted in Beards, Videos

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    The baddest Rube Goldberg ever

    by Eric Bandholz on Jan 10, 2012 | No Comments

    When you include live animals, fire, and blatant disregard for high end computing machinery the only end result can be badass. This Rube Goldberg machine is one of the most fun I’ve watched in a while. Joseph Herscher put this…

    Posted in Around the Web, Videos