• anarchisthulk: HULK SMASH PDX BUREAUCRATS DRINK LEMONADE AHH http://tinyurl.com/2whrd2t. Twitter / anarchisthulk (2010-08-09). anarchisthulk: HULK SMASH PDX BUREAUCRATS DRINK LEMONADE AHH http://tinyurl.com/2whrd2t (Linked Monday 2010-08-09.)

• Fonts: true meaning. Javier, THE COSMONAUTS (2010-07-27). (via I Love Charts) (Linked Friday 2010-08-06.)

• Police and nonviolent means: Pacifism at the service of oppression. www.jesusradicals.com (2010-08-07). In this video, police demonstrate a new "nonlethal" weapon that will blind people. Some Christian pacifists have worked to make the police "less violent" by advocating for less lethal weapons than firearms, such as tasers. In a recent editorial in The Mennonite, for example, Everett Thomas who is also a… (Linked Saturday 2010-08-07.)

• This Week's Crime Column. Radley Balko, The Agitator (2010-08-02). The tease: When Pennsylvania resident Brian Kelly was arrested and charged with a felony in 2007 for recording a police officer during a traffic stop, Cumberland County, Pennsylvania District Attorney David Freed told a local newspaper that he sympathized with Kelly's plight. Kelly was arrested based on a tortured interpretation… (Linked Saturday 2010-08-07.)

• Ignorance of the Law Is No Excuse. Unless You're in Law Enforcement. The Agitator (2010-08-07). Part of a recurring theme. In addition to my prior post today, here's a roundup of other photography/video stories in the news of late: Earlier this month, Carlos Miller—who runs the Photography Is Not a Crime blog—was "banned" from Miami's Metrorail system after guards from the firm hired to provide… (Linked Saturday 2010-08-07.)

• "Come, a glass to our captain—the destined destroyer of civilization!" Shawn P. Wilbur, Out of the Libertarian Labyrinth (2010-07-21). While searching for hollow earth narratives (a curiously political genre, as it happens), I came across Hartmann the Anarchist, an 1893 science fiction/adventure novel, by Edward Douglas Fawcett (the brother of the “Lost City of Z” explorer.) Fawcett also wrote Swallowed by an Earthquake, which I haven’t tracked down, but… (Linked Saturday 2010-08-07.)

• Why Do Law Enforcement Officials LOVE the iPhone? Chris, Chris Pirillo (2010-08-04). Why Do Law Enforcement Officials LOVE the iPhone? is a post from Chris Pirillo Add to iTunes | Add to YouTube | Add to Google | RSS FeedDid you know just how MUCH information the iPhone stores on you? Police do, and they LOVE the iPhone for making it easier… (Linked Sunday 2010-08-08.)

Tony Abbott Makes Rape Joke, MSM frames it as "sexist gaffe". Guest Post by Napalmnacey. Hoyden About Town (2010-08-08):

So, Tony Abbott is totally going after the women's vote! Check this out! The Australian: Tony trips at paid parental leave launch with !!!@@e2;20ac;2dc;no' gaffe. On a day that the Coalition was devoting to winning the women's vote, Mr Abbott questioned whether when Julia Gillard says no, she really means…

The State is male in the political sense. So are States-men.

Guy Offers Free Rides to Keep Drunk Drivers Off the Streets, Is Arrested – Hit & Run : Reason Magazine. reason.com (2010-08-07):

Katherine Mangu-Ward | August 5, 2010 Some guy’s friend gets killed by a drunk driver and he decides to do something about it. He starts a service to keep drunks off the road by offering free rides home. It turns out that Quincy, Illinois, is well stocked with semi-responsible drunks,…

In which the city government in Quincy, Illinois solves the Free Rider problem.

Police attack and temporarily arrest a black man having medical episode in his own house as burglar suspect. three rivers tumblr (2010-08-07):

Police attack and temporarily arrest a black man having medical episode in his own house as burglar suspect: zuky: Wayne Burwell, a respected 34-year-old physical fitness trainer and a black resident of a 97% white area in Vermont, suffers from a blood-sugar-related medical condition which caused him to black out…