rechelon on Do you find the word "Anarchist" as an antagonist to the movement? reddit: the voice of the internet -- news before it happens (2011-01-21). An-Archia means Without Rulership, so regardless of whatever we identify as people will call us "anarchists" and our ideals "anarchy" and they will be correct. In a bit of Orwellian ridiculousness "Anarchy" today is largely accepted as BOTH violent chaos and without rulership. That is to say whenever someone uses... (Linked Friday 2011-01-21.)

Unfriending. ongoing by Tim Bray (2011-01-20). I’ve never really got much out of Facebook. Quite likely because I’ve been Doing It Wrong; so I’m trying to fix that. What happened was, I got on Facebook back in 2007; in the early days I accepted friend requests from almost anyone and in particular anyone who worked at... (Linked Sunday 2011-01-23.)

Institutions, Organizations, and Anarchy. joshmccabe, The Sociological Imagination (2011-01-20). One of the things I’ve been noticing as I delve deeper into the economic sociology literature is just how much sociologists take the existence of the state for granted. In most cases, the state is omnipresent in modern society because we could not have markets in its absence. Many Marxists,... (Linked Sunday 2011-01-23.)

Edison's Predictions for the Year 2011 (1911) Matt Novak, Paleofuture Blog (2011-01-18). On June 23, 1911 the Miami Metropolis published predictions about the year 2011 from the one and only Tommy "Dumbo Killah" Edison. Edison makes some amazing predictions about a future of golden automobiles, the discontinuation of gold as currency, the rise of steel and the death of the steam engine. I'm especially... (Linked Sunday 2011-01-23.)

Sustainable counter-media — Radix Media on Kickstarter. Shawn P. Wilbur, Out of the Libertarian Labyrinth (2010-11-14). Radix Media, a Portland-based radical offset printing and design operation, has launched a modest $5000 Kickstarter campaign, to upgrade their presses and invest in booklet-making equipment. They describe the project as representing the difference between continuing the project, and making it sustainable. Sustainable operation is the goal that so few... (Linked Tuesday 2010-11-16.)

WillUsingThePrefixCyberMakeMeLookLikeAnIdiot.com. willusingtheprefixcybermakemelooklikeanidiot.com (2010-11-16). (Linked Tuesday 2010-11-16.)

The Robber Barons. Sheldon Richman, Free Association (2010-11-07). I'm finally reading Matthew Josephson's The Robber Barons, a book I never felt I needed to read. That was a bad decision. I'm only a couple of chapters in, but I can tell this is a book worth reading because it will shed some needed light on the alleged golden... (Linked Tuesday 2010-11-16.)

Show Us on the Airline Passenger Where He Touched You. cherylcline, der Blaustrumpf (2010-11-16). I’ve been meaning to write about the parallels between state violence and sexual violence for some time, but it’s really something to see the two overlap so neatly as they do with the newly introduced TSA backscatter x-ray machines.  In case you’re unfamiliar with them, the machines are capable of... (Linked Wednesday 2010-11-17.)

Lifelong Welfare Case to Hold Lavish Wedding at Public Expense. Jesse Walker, Jesse Walker: Reason Magazine articles and blog posts. (2010-11-16). Details here. (Linked Wednesday 2010-11-17.)

Three Shalt Thou Count. Roderick, Austro-Athenian Empire (2010-08-30). The debates in the comments section of my Koch post have gotten me thinking about the different ways in which vulgar libertarianism operates. I think there are three. 1) First, there’s the use of libertarian slogans as mere rhetorical covering for corporatist policies. This kind of vulgar libertarianism is standard... (Linked Monday 2010-08-30.)

C4SS in the MSM. Roderick, Austro-Athenian Empire (2010-08-30). Congratulations to Ross Kenyon, whose latest C4SS piece has been picked up by the Christian Science Monitor! (Linked Monday 2010-08-30.)

The Cold, Crisp Taste of Koch. Jesse Walker, Jesse Walker: Reason Magazine articles and blog posts. (2010-08-31). From Frank Rich's rehash of Jane Mayer's recent hit piece on the philanthropizin' oilmen Charles and David Koch: When David Koch ran to the right of Reagan as vice president on the 1980 Libertarian ticket (it polled 1 percent), his campaign called for the abolition not just of Social Security,... (Linked Tuesday 2010-08-31.)

Why does the Infrastructurist hate libertarians so much? rationalitate, Market Urbanism (2010-08-25). by Stephen Smith Among urban planners, libertarianism gets a pretty bad rap. Melissa Lafsky at the Infrastructurist goes so far as to call libertarianism “an enemy of infrastructure,” and dismisses entirely the idea that private industry can build infrastructure with a single hyperlink – to a poorly-written article on New Zealand’s... (Linked Tuesday 2010-08-31.)

Argumentum ad un-Americanum. Will Wilkinson, Will Wilkinson (2010-08-27). This Forbes column by Yaron Brook and Don Watkins arguing that the government should stop subsidizing homeownership was skipping along predictably but just fine until… When the government encourages homeownership, the story goes, it strengthens individuals and communities and thereby fosters the American Dream. They’re wrong. A government crusade to... (Linked Tuesday 2010-08-31.)

Why Do Futurists Get So Much Wrong? Steven Horwitz, The Freeman | Ideas On Liberty (2010-08-25). The Austrian economist Ludwig Lachmann once walked into the colloquium room at New York University, where the blackboard displayed this quotation: “When it comes to the future, one word says it all: You never know. – Y. Berra.” Having built much of his economics on the unknowability of the future,... (Linked Tuesday 2010-08-31.)

Scary scary news scary! admin, This Modern World (2010-08-31). Scary scary news scary! (Linked Tuesday 2010-08-31.)