Not How You Boil a Frog. Daily Brickbats (2011-02-09):

The Pinal County, Arizona, sheriff’s office fired Deputy Raul Alvarado for torturing a frog by Tasering it. The county’s merit commission has ordered the department to rehire him.

The first sign of a sociopath is torturing animals.

• okay so i decided to do medusa after all! Dinosaur Comics (2011-02-07). archive – contact – sexy exciting merchandise – cute – search – about!!!@@e2;2020;90; previousFebruary 7th, 2011nextFebruary 7th, 2011: The only solution is to start building a theology around Axe Cop; kinda surprised this isn’t already happening! If you enjoy myths then you may enjoy Better Myths! If you enjoy Batman… (Linked Tuesday 2011-02-08.)

• just a few minutes ago, cbs published a story with this. Captain Capitulation, eye of the storm (2011-02-05). just a few minutes ago, cbs published a story with this headline: clinton advocates 'orderly transition' in egypt. see, my view is that you actually publish news; a random sentence by an average demonstrator would be more interesting. you can't make news out of continuous extreme redundancy, much less the 1,235th… (Linked Tuesday 2011-02-08.)

• Go Down, Pharaoh. Jesse Walker: Reason Magazine articles and blog posts. (2011-02-05). “If you mention the idea of a revolution driven by civil disobedience rather than violence, you’re apt to hear the old saw that such revolts only work in countries with good-hearted leaders at the reins, not savage regimes held together by torture and terror. But contrary to the popular stereotype, Gandhian uprisings don’t succeed by shaming rulers until they can’t bring themselves to crack down. They succeed by delegitimizing authority—by breaking the braces that support the structures of social control, so the rulers can’t crack down. Political power is not a pyramid fixed in stone. It’s a complex, dynamic ecology of shifting loyalties and allegiances. When those loyalties and allegiances shift swiftly and in sufficient numbers, the result is a revolution. … If there’s an iron law of politics, it’s that everything can always get worse. But if you want a reason to be optimistic about Egypt, there’s this: Unlike a coup, an invasion, or anything involving a vanguard party, a people-power revolution strengthens rather than disrupts civil society. Of all the ways a regime can fall, this is the path that’s most likely to lead to a freer country. When it comes to political models, the liberated zone in Tahrir Square beats a barracks any day.” (Linked Saturday 2011-02-05.)

• By: PW. PW, Comments on: More on the Non-Existent "War on Cops" (2011-02-04). #25 – The most interesting stat on that link is far and away the disparity between cops and the general public on sexual assault. The others are fairly close, or only slightly skewed to the cops or the general public. But for sexual assaults, cops show up at more than… (Linked Saturday 2011-02-05.)

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• "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.)