• Gratitude Attitude, Part 2. Roderick, Austro-Athenian Empire (2011-04-29). Are you sick of those t-shirts that say "If you love freedom thank a veteran"? Check out the Molinari Institute's newest t-shirt, which reads "If you love freedom thank an anarchist," thus honouring both those anarchists who've been in the forefront of struggles for freedom in the past (e.g. the… (Linked Friday 2011-04-29.)

• The "book" is dead. Mark, dive into mark (2011-04-29). David Flanagan, author of JavaScript: The Definitive Guide, writes: For 15 years I've been one of those lucky authors who has been able to support himself and his family almost entirely on book royalties. But the publishing industry has been in decline and my royalties checks have decreased more-or-less steadily… (Linked Saturday 2011-04-30.)

• maybe i just don't understand the meaning of leadership. Captain Capitulation, eye of the storm (2011-04-29). maybe i just don't understand the meaning of leadership. obama's visit to tuscaloosa today (then off to the scuttled shuttle launch!) was a bigger story than the aftermath of the disaster. ok he was there, but the practical steps he took he took from dc last night. it's a constant… (Linked Saturday 2011-04-30.)

• Consider the Author. cherylcline, der Blaustrumpf (2011-04-27). Here's a short list of major American writers whom electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) has failed to save:  Sylvia Plath, Ernest Hemingway, David Foster Wallace.  The latter two ended their lives very shortly after treatment.  Plath and Wallace were also on and off antidepressants, a class of medications acknowledged even by the… (Linked Wednesday 2011-04-27.)

• A Joshua King Ingalls update. Shawn P. Wilbur, Two-Gun Mutualism & the Golden Rule (2011-04-25). Last week, a colleague provided me with copies of Josiah Warren’s articles “To the Friends of the Social System,” which appeared in the Western Tiller, and that put me back into bibliographic mode, since the Warren/equitable commerce bibliography has been hovering somewhere just short of publishable for a long time… (Linked Wednesday 2011-04-27.)

• If You Love Big Bird, Set Him Free. Jesse Walker, Jesse Walker: Reason Magazine articles and blog posts. (2011-04-27). The good news for public broadcasters is that Congress has failed to defund them. The budget deal reached earlier this month didn't include the House Republicans' rider to remove all subsidies to National Public Radio Inc., let alone the earlier proposal to zero out the Corporation for Public Broadcasting. The… (Linked Wednesday 2011-04-27.)

• April 26, 2011. Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal (updated daily) (2011-04-25). WOOH! What an awesome day it was yesterday. Remember, the sooner you order, the more likely you are to get a signed copy. And now, ON WITH THE SHOW! (video NSFW) (Linked Tuesday 2011-04-26.)

• Two guys standing on an incline. admin, This Modern World (2011-04-26). (Linked Wednesday 2011-04-27.)

• When Police Interrogate Children. Wendy McElroy, The Freeman | Ideas On Liberty (2011-03-28). On its surface, a case currently before the U.S. Supreme Court may seem to be legally trivial; it's about a juvenile who stole from neighborhood houses. But J.D.B. v. North Carolina could redefine both the law's "reasonable person" standard and what it means to be in custody. The case is… (Linked Saturday 2011-04-23.)

• Knowing the Real Enemy. Kevin Carson, Center for a Stateless Society (2011-04-23). In an article in Tikkun last year, Rabbi Michael Lerner argued that "[f]rom the standpoint of the large corporate interests, nothing could be better than to de-fund government or dramatically downsize it, because then it can't constrain their economic power."  ("After the Health Care Legislation," April 5, 2010). And now… (Linked Saturday 2011-04-23.)

• Georgia to Execute Troy Davis, Despite Gaping Holes In State's Case. Francis L. Holland, Gangsters in Blue (2011-04-22). Troy Davis is about to be executed — even though he may be innocent. Tell Georgia to spare Troy Davis’ life. This is an emergency announcement from Color of Change: Dear Atty,In 1991, Troy Davis was convicted of murdering a white police officer. Though there’s major evidence that Davis didn’t… (Linked Sunday 2011-04-24.)

• Derek Colling – Most Dangerous Cop in America. Ademo Freeman, Gangsters in Blue (2011-04-23). Derek Colling might be the most dangerous (active) cop in the united states. In less than 5 years as a police office Colling has killed two, including one 15 year old boy, and was just caught on film beating a man for filming him – great write up and back… (Linked Sunday 2011-04-24.)

• well, gene, i do refer to everyone from james madison to benito. Captain Capitulation, eye of the storm (2011-04-24). well, gene, i do refer to everyone from james madison to benito mussolini as a 'statist,' and to myself as an 'anti-statist.' this does not of course entail that madison and mussolini agree on everything, but it does pick out the fact that they agree on one big thing. (of course… (Linked Sunday 2011-04-24.)

• Help Christie Books publish Antonio Téllez Sol?@c3;a0;'s "Facerías" Shawn P. Wilbur, Two-Gun Mutualism & the Golden Rule (2011-04-24). Passing along a note from the Kate Sharpley Library: “Christie Books is planning to publish Facerías: Urban Guerrilla Warfare (1939-1957) by Antonio Tellez Sola and translated by Paul Sharkey, but needs your help. Please check out the link and consider donating to the publication fund through the chipin link on… (Linked Sunday 2011-04-24.)

• Bakunin on Proudhon and Marx. Shawn P. Wilbur, Two-Gun Mutualism & the Golden Rule (2011-04-24). James Guillaume, in the “Biographical Notice” in his French edition of Bakunin’s Works, includes part of an 1870 manuscript written by Bakunin on the subject of Proudhon and Marx:Proudhon, despite all his efforts to shake off the traditions of classical idealism, nonetheless remained all his life an incorrigible idealist, inspired,… (Linked Sunday 2011-04-24.)

• Changing Incentives Creates Security Risks. schneier, Schneier on Security (2011-04-14). One of the things I am writing about in my new book is how security equilibriums change. They often change because of technology, but they sometimes change because of incentives. An interesting example of this is the recent scandal in the Washington, DC, public school system over teachers changing their… (Linked Monday 2011-04-25.)

• In Other Words, Just About Everyone. Radley Balko, Radley Balko: Reason Magazine articles and blog posts. (2011-04-20). CNN recently obtained a list of the "behavioral indicators" that could subject you to an enhanced security screeing by TSA. Included on the list: Passengers who display arrogance and verbally express contempt for security procedures. Because terrorists are known for drawing attention to themselves by irritating security screeners? Seems doubtful…. (Linked Monday 2011-04-25.)

Supreme Court Firms Up State Immunity From Wrongful Conviction Lawsuits. Radley Balko: Reason Magazine articles and blog posts. (2011-04-25):

By a ideologically right-left, 5-4 vote, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled today (PDF) that a wrongly convicted Louisiana man—who at one point was just weeks away from execution—isn’t permitted to sue the DA’s office that for 14 years sat on the evidence proving his innocence. Jacob Sullum wrote about Connick…

We need government courts instead of private protection and arbitration because private protection associations would be accountable to the rich and powerful instead of being accountable to the people.