A Tribute to Rudolf Rocker (1873–1958) Mises Institute Daily Articles (Full-text version) (2010-10-01). Rocker was awful on economics, but his focus was not on that. He wrote about nationalism and culture, and here Rocker is fantastic. "States create no culture; indeed, they are often destroyed by higher forms of culture." (Linked Friday 2010-10-01.)

How to Record the Cops. Radley Balko, Radley Balko: Reason Magazine articles and blog posts. (2010-09-20). This summer the issue of recording on-duty police officers has received a great deal of media attention. Camera-wielding citizens were arrested in Maryland, Illinois, and Massachusetts under interpretations of state wiretapping laws, while others were arrested in New Hampshire, Ohio, Oregon, Florida, and elsewhere based on vaguer charges related to... (Linked Saturday 2010-10-02.)

Blegging – The Oxford School of Ungovernment. Jock, Anarchoblogs in English (2010-10-03). Last month saw the inauguration of the "Blavatnik School of Government" at Oxford University, described as "Europe's first major school of government".  How on earth, one wonders, could we have done without all these centuries.  And what does it say about our current crop of leaders here in the UK... (Linked Sunday 2010-10-03.)

Can we really blame Republicans for the wars? Charles Davis, Anarchoblogs in English (2010-10-03). Michael Moore has a list of five things he says Democrats should do to avoid a disaster at the polls in November. His first recommendation? That the Democratic Party run ads reminding voters "Who the Hell Put Us in the Misery We're In": People need to be reminded over and over that... (Linked Sunday 2010-10-03.)

15th August 1889 – The Meeting of Emma Goldman & Alexander Berkman. Dorian, Dorian Cope presents On This Deity (2010-08-14).   Suffolk Street, NYC c. 1889   One hundred and twenty-one years ago today, a fateful and momentous meeting of two exceptional minds occurred in a café in New York City’s Lower East Side. Like Wordsworth and Coleridge, or John and Yoko, the reaction between the two was instant and... (Linked Monday 2010-08-16.)

Climb Every. Dorothy, Cat and Girl (2010-08-16). (Linked Tuesday 2010-08-17.)

08/16/10 PHD comic: 'LolGrads' PHD Comics (2010-08-17). Piled Higher & Deeper by Jorge Cham www.phdcomics.com title: "LolGrads" - originally published 8/16/2010 For the latest news in PHD Comics, CLICK HERE! (Linked Tuesday 2010-08-17.)

Taking Afghanistan seriously. admin, This Modern World (2010-08-17). (Linked Tuesday 2010-08-17.)

Bradley Manning’s Moral Clarity. Will Wilkinson, Will Wilkinson (2010-08-16). In case you haven’t seen it, here’s my latest column at The Week about Bradley Manning and Wikileaks. I’ve got to say that I’ve been pretty disappointed with the response to the Manning/Wikileaks affair from a pretty good number of libertarians. I think it’s obvious that Wikileaks screwed up pretty... (Linked Tuesday 2010-08-17.)

Will It Optimize? John Gruber, Daring Fireball (2010-07-23). Another splendidly intricate post from Peter Ammon. Only of interest if you enjoy puzzles on GCC optimizations.  ★  (Linked Wednesday 2010-08-04.)

★ An Improved Liberal, Accurate Regex Pattern for Matching URLs. John Gruber, Daring Fireball (2010-07-27). Back in November, I posted a regex pattern for matching URLs. It seems to have proven quite useful for others, and, even better, based on feedback from those who’ve used it, I’ve since improved it in several ways. The problem the pattern attempts to solve: identify the URLs in an... (Linked Wednesday 2010-08-04.)

On Broadway. Cat and Girl (2010-08-04). The joke only works under the Copenhagen Interpretation of QM. (Linked Wednesday 2010-08-04.)

Speaking the Truth is for Losers and Egomaniacs. cherylcline, der Blaustrumpf (2010-08-05). In Savage Mules:  The Democrats and Endless War, Dennis Perrin writes that “Speaking the truth is for losers and egomaniacs.”  Had I read that before Wikileaks gained much traction, I probably would have agreed without fully comprehending.  In light of the accusations hurled against Julian Assange, however, I see that... (Linked Thursday 2010-08-05.)

Saving Our History Books For The Singularity. rechelon, Human Iterations (2010-07-26). Some noble soul has labored to put the two most important history books on Individualist Anarchism’s first wave in America online — and in very accessible condition.   Anyway, I felt I had to pause in my projects and distractions to let you know.  This is the shit. Eunice Minette Schuster’s... (Linked Tuesday 2010-07-27.)

What does it mean to love your enemies? Ryan, The Peaceable Kingdom (2010-07-26). A question many Christians aren’t really asking. This moving video lays it out very simply. It is not wide-eyed optimism in the sense that it doesn’t portray automatic world peace and love in the face of violence. It means that to truly love your enemies you might have to receive... (Linked Tuesday 2010-07-27.)

A squealing leftie writes. chris dillow, Stumbling and Mumbling (2010-07-23). Tim says something that puzzles me:Human beings really are status seeking beings. The method of ranking it, enforcing it, discovering it, may change, but that there will be a social hierarchy is a given. And that’s the bit that our squealing lefties seem to forget….Simply because we are human beings... (Linked Tuesday 2010-07-27.)

Three from Vienna. Austro-Athenian Empire (2010-07-27). Including an excellent anthology from my teacher Kelly Jolley, also including essays by my other teacher Roderick Long; and a Tractarian musical number. About the latter, all I can say is that he would have been better off trying to whistle it. (Linked Tuesday 2010-07-27.)

Trail of Tears 2010. der Blaustrumpf (2010-07-27). Deportation is ethnic cleansing. Nothing more, nothing less. (Linked Tuesday 2010-07-27.)

Remember Furkan Dogan. Sheldon Richman, Free Association (2010-07-27). Furkan Dogan was the 19-year-old American fatally shot five times by Israeli commandos aboard the Mavi Marmara headed for Gaza -- without a peep from the Obama administration, which has time to get involved with everything else happening in the world. Dogan was a bright young man with a promising... (Linked Tuesday 2010-07-27.)

Wikileaks releases classified Afghanistan war logs: "largest intelligence leak in history" Xeni Jardin, Boing Boing (2010-07-25). An archive of classified U.S. military logs spanning six years, more than 91,000 documents, and 200,000 pages, was today made available by WikiLeaks. The papers show a picture of the war in Afghanistan that is far more grim, and far less hopeful, than previously portrayed. The New York Times, London's... (Linked Tuesday 2010-07-27.)

Guadec Day 2: In pursuit of critical mass. Ivanka Majic, Canonical Design (2010-07-27). Today I was reminded of this quote by Jane Goodall: If everyone could think a little bit about small choices they make every day: What do you eat, does it result in animal cruelty? What do you wear, how was it made, does it damage the environment? When people start... (Linked Tuesday 2010-07-27.)

Dedicated to "the mutualists of the world" Shawn P. Wilbur, Out of the Libertarian Labyrinth (2010-05-17). Charles T. Sprading's 1930 Mutual Service and Cooperation is available for download from Google Books. (Linked Wednesday 2010-05-26.)

Watch Out, Facebook. Jesse Walker: Reason Magazine articles and blog posts. (2010-05-26). "The business press may be filled with rhetoric about 'participatory media' and 'user-generated content,' but the country's most prominent Web 2.0 company treats its participants like a bunch of CompuServe subscribers circa 1994. ..." (Linked Wednesday 2010-05-26.)

Oh No! Sheldon Richman, Free Association (2010-05-23). Conservatives won't want to hear it, but the libertarian alternative to antidiscrimination laws is: COMMUNITY ORGANIZING!Atom (Linked Wednesday 2010-05-26.)

The Welfare State. Sheldon Richman, Free Association (2010-05-23). Despite what you may read at other libertarian sites, the welfare state is not the result of efforts by lazy poor people to enslave and live off the productive classes. Rather, it is the result of efforts by the political-social-corporate elite to subordinate and control the poor for a variety... (Linked Wednesday 2010-05-26.)

Free George Donnelly Handbill. DarianW, DarianWorden.com (2010-05-24). Thanks to ALLy James Tuttle for creating a solid handout in support of George Donnelly. Download the .pdf at LibertyActivism.info. (Linked Wednesday 2010-05-26.)

here's a sortof interesting piece of political/cultural. Captain Capitulation, eye of the storm (2010-05-13). here's a sortof interesting piece of political/cultural commentary by mark lilla. he frames the whole thing in terms of "radical individualism"="the libertarian mob," as against...well, what? obviously the basic contrast of individualism is to collectivism, but it's hard to sit there and squarely endorse that term: there are too many... (Linked Thursday 2010-05-27.)

Arrivals Lounge. Dorothy, Cat and Girl (2010-05-27). (Linked Thursday 2010-05-27.)

Gimme Your Best Just-World Play. cherylcline, der Blaustrumpf (2010-05-27). Come on.  I need it after reading this: Jiang Chun Geng is one of 15 elderly Chinese men and women whom Zhu is treating in his simple village clinic for what locals label “rotten leg disease.” A definitive diagnosis is no longer possible so many decades after the initial exposure... (Linked Thursday 2010-05-27.)