• The Book Surgeon (15 pieces) - My Modern Metropolis. www.mymodernmet.com (2011-03-14). This man is both insane and awesome at the same time. (Linked Monday 2011-03-14.)

• Comment on Cordial and Sanguine by JOR. JOR, Comments for Austro-Athenian Empire (2011-03-13). Liberaltarianism is certainly the least compelling and least interesting form of left-libertarianism. It’s like the Bob Barr/Wayne Allen Root wing of the libertarian left. (Linked Monday 2011-03-14.)

• <3. Human Iterations » <3 (2011-03-14). This is from a preface to a book I am editing with Gary Chartier. Appearing... soon? More anon. (Linked Monday 2011-03-14.)

• Modesto Junior College Passes Massive Cuts as Madison's Capitol is Retaken. lilprole, Modesto Anarcho (2011-03-12). Adam Golub, student rep on Board.Voted "yes" to budget cuts.On Wednesday night, the Board of Trustees of the YCCD system passed unanimously, (not even the 'student representative' voted no), sweeping budget cuts which will lay-off staff, gut departments, and shut down entire programs. At one point a veteran in full military garb, angry... (Linked Tuesday 2011-03-15.)

• I blame the plutocracy! Marja Erwin (2011-02-25). Conventional femininity injures, mutilates, and sometimes kills.Jill, at I Blame the Patriarchy ( http://blog.iblamethepatriarchy.com/2011/01/26/death-by-femininity-again/ ) considers who is to blame for the death of Carolin Berger, a German porn actress.It is only too easy for defenders of the status quo to blame those who die of plastic surgery. All too... (Linked Saturday 2011-02-26.)

• paul krugman/naomi klein statist leftism vs. right-wing. Captain Capitulation, eye of the storm (2011-02-25). paul krugman/naomi klein statist leftism vs. right-wing corporatism presents us with a horrendous dilemma: state or corporation? it articulates a stark choice between forms of subordination: state control of the economy (along with and backed by military or police coercion), welfare-state regimes of total surveillance and public housing vs. horrendous economic... (Linked Saturday 2011-02-26.)

• Paying for Bad Cops. Radley Balko, Radley Balko: Reason Magazine articles and blog posts. (2011-02-09). Walter Olson points to a case in Colorado, where a police officer kneed a handcuffed woman in the face, breaking her eye socket. He also didn't bother to report her injuries. The Aurora police chief sensibly fired the officer, and the city paid the victim an $85,000 settlement. But then... (Linked Saturday 2011-02-26.)

• The Mind of a Police Dog. Radley Balko, Radley Balko: Reason Magazine articles and blog posts. (2011-02-21). For the first few years I had her, I was impressed by my late dog Harper's uncanny ability to assess people's character. She hated every crappy landlord and bad roommate. Barked at them. Snarled at them. Wouldn't go near them. But if I brought home a date I liked, Harper,... (Linked Saturday 2011-02-26.)

• Teaching People Power. Jesse Walker, Jesse Walker: Reason Magazine articles and blog posts. (2011-02-25). The Daily Beast calls Gene Sharp "The 83 Year Old Who Toppled Egypt." The New York Times reports that "for the world's despots, his ideas can be fatal." In the last month he's been praised in venues ranging from Scientific American to the BBC. It's an unprecedented level of attention for a scholar whose... (Linked Saturday 2011-02-26.)

• Making Sure Public Health Authorities Don't Say Anything That Might Help Public Health, Illegal Drug Edition. Brian Doherty, Brian Doherty: Reason Magazine articles and blog posts. (2011-02-10). L.A. County Supervisor Michael Antonovich is angry that his county's Public Health Department is distributing a flyer that might actually improve public health by giving sensible advise about how not to get ill when using street ecstasy: Antonovich said the flier, created after a 15-year-old girl died of an Ecstasy overdose after... (Linked Saturday 2011-02-26.)

• The Coming American Insurrection. lilprole, Modesto Anarcho (2011-02-24). Rich scum - you're time has come!As we speak, tens of thousands of people are fighting back in Madison, Wisconsin. What began as an attempt by Republican governor Walker to implement sweeping austerity measures and take away the ability of unions to collectively bargain, has created a massive grassroots working class response.... (Linked Monday 2011-02-28.)

• “Sunday Schools That Teach Children Anarchy,” from the New York Times (May 8, 1910) Rad Geek, Fair Use Blog (2011-02-02). Here’s some more on mass-media reception of Anarchism during the early 20th century: a strange little piece from the Sunday New York Times magazine from May 8, 1910, on Anarchist Sunday schools in New York, focusing on the Ferrer Sunday School taught by Alexander Berkman. The Sunday schools were part... (Linked Wednesday 2011-02-02.)

• C4SS Appeal. Roderick, Austro-Athenian Empire (2011-02-02). Guest Blogs by Brad Spangler and Kevin Carson C4SS 1st Quarter 2011 Fundraiser by Brad Spangler Dear Supporters of the Center for a Stateless Society, I hope everybody had a happy holiday season and has been staying warm so far this Winter. Now it’s time to pay some bills …... (Linked Wednesday 2011-02-02.)

• More on the Non-Existent "War on Cops" Radley Balko, Radley Balko: Reason Magazine articles and blog posts. (2011-02-03). In my Monday column debunking the "war on cops" meme currently working its way through the media, I noted that fatal attacks on police officer deaths have dropped pretty dramatically over the last 25-30 years. Yesterday a reader sent me a link to this mostly unfortunate discussion of the column... (Linked Friday 2011-02-04.)

• Does Gandhi Deserve a Place in the Libertarian Tradition? Mises Institute Daily Articles (Full-text version) (2011-02-02). If you abjure all violence, you must abjure the state. Thus, while not all libertarians are pacifists, all pacifists are libertarians, whether they realize it or not (and, admittedly, a great many pacifists have not realized it). Gandhi, it appears, did realize it. (Linked Friday 2011-02-04.)

• Jury Says it's Okay to Record the TSA. schneier, Schneier on Security (2011-01-31). The Seattle man who refused to show ID to the TSA and recorded the whole incident has been cleared of all charges: [The jury] returned not guilty verdicts for charges that included concealing his identity, refusing to obey a lawful order, trespassing, and disorderly conduct. Papers, Please! says the acquittal... (Linked Tuesday 2011-02-01.)

• Revolution in Egypt: Learn More! inciteblog, INCITE! Blog (2011-02-01). Are you excited about the grassroots revolution happening in Egypt?  Do you want to learn more about the background of what’s happening and what the movement is organizing for?  Here are some resources: First, a recent video of a protester in Tahir Square in Cairo.  She explains the political goals... (Linked Tuesday 2011-02-01.)

• "Free as in Sexist?": Sexism in the Free Culture Movement. Joseph Reagle (2011-01-28). The introduction to my draft on free culture and sexism: In the summer of 2010, David Finsher and Aaron Sorkin's film about the beginnings of Facebook ("The Social Network") attracted much discussion about the portrayal of women in geeky projects. Tracy Clark-Flory (2010fpo), writing for Salon.com, wrote the film prompts... (Linked Tuesday 2011-02-01.)

• Early Corporate Welfare: “An act for the relief of sick and disabled seamen” Jad Davis, The jVerse (2011-01-31). A friend pointed out a fascinating article on “An act for the relief of sick and disabled seamen“[1] which the author points to as a precedent for Congress mandating health coverage for citizens of the United States. I don’t have any disagreement with his conclusion, that the Constitution in no... (Linked Tuesday 2011-02-01.)

• Annual Bay Area Anarchist Cafe. kate, Anarchoblogs in English (2011-02-01). The Anarchist Cafe is on! Every year, the Bay Area Anarchist Bookfair is preceded by the annual Anarchist Cafe, an sober-space gathering with vegan dinner and performances, that provides a space for folks to gather before the madness of Bookfair weekend sets in. Much fun, good eats, lots of good... (Linked Tuesday 2011-02-01.)

• It’s a Child, Not a Choice. Center for a Stateless Society (2011-02-01). "No, it's not an anti-abortion rant... The problem isn’t lack of competition within the government education mandate. The problem is the government education mandate." (Linked Tuesday 2011-02-01.)

• Obama Marxism Watch — Be Very Afraid! Kevin Carson, Center for a Stateless Society (2011-01-06). For over two years, we unappreciated patriots have taken upon ourselves the thankless task of outing Barack Obama as a closeted Marxist and exposing his insidious socialist agenda for enslaving this country. While Obama sat in his Red Study Circle with comrades Geithner, Summers and Rubin, busily reading “Quotations from... (Linked Tuesday 2011-02-01.)

• Traffic Problems Will Disappear by Year 2000 (1955) Matt Novak, Paleofuture Blog (2011-02-01). From the 1958 Disneyland TV episode Magic Highway, USA The September 22, 1955 Lewiston Daily Sun (Lewiston, ME) ran a wonderful piece titled, "Hope For the Motorist: Traffic Problems Will Disappear by Year 2000." Such unbridled optimism for the yet to be developed Interstate Highway System is downright cute. Well,... (Linked Wednesday 2011-02-02.)

• Store Fronts. Dorothy, Cat and Girl (2011-02-01). (Linked Wednesday 2011-02-02.)

• Hell No, We Won't Fire. Jesse Walker, Jesse Walker: Reason Magazine articles and blog posts. (2011-01-31). When the troops won't shoot, the game's just about over: The Egyptian army has said it will not use force against protesters calling for the removal of President Hosni Mubarak ahead of a "million people" march. The military said it considers the people's demands "legitimate". (Linked Wednesday 2011-02-02.)

• Andrew Jackson. IOZ, Who Is IOZ? (2011-01-10). Is there a bigger, more sanctimonious boob in the whole blessed world than Keith Olberman? "Violence, or the threat of violence, has no place in democracy"? Um, uh, what? Tell it to the Cherokee. Tell it to the Iraqis. Tell it to Baltimore and Washington South of the Capitol. Tell... (Linked Wednesday 2011-02-02.)

I call on all of our college campuses to open their doors to our [sic] military recruiters and the ROTC. It is time to leave behind the divisive battles of the past. It is time to move forward as one nation.

—President Barack Obama (25 January 2011), State of the Union speech

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