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A brief history of the most hated tag in the history of the Web.

• Everybody Run, Uncle Grady Has a Gun. Roderick, Austro-Athenian Empire (2010-05-10). The following letter appeared in today's Opelika-Auburn News. (I've restored my original paragraphing, which was altered seemingly at random.) To the Editor: Bob Sanders wonders (May 8th) why we would fear Uncle Grady the tax assessor. Surely the answer is: because Uncle Grady's edicts are ultimately backed up by threats… (Linked Monday 2010-05-10.)

• Reviewing Like It's 2007. rechelon, Human Iterations » Non-Aggression And The Goddamn Primmies (2010-05-10). Communism Reconstituted as Psychotherapy: The Coming Insurrection Everyone knows.  It's really nothing new.  Their attack on Green Capitalism is delicious, while their advocacy of "communes" is without substance, tacked on and arguably specious.  There's a lot of language in it specific to the European intellectual scene.  Honestly, it's a bit… (Linked Monday 2010-05-10.)

It’s a beautiful Sunday in May, and Shamelessness is in the air.

I’ve been working away in the scriptorium this week, not as diligently as I like, but diligently enough that some things long-planned are beginning to come to fruition. You probably know that the Bits & Pieces on Free Market Anti-Capitalism are coming out (and will continue to come out over the upcoming week). What you may not know, unless you specially follow it, is that I’ve also been steadily at work over at the Fair Use Repository. In particular, I’m happy to announce that, as I suggested I might last week, I’m now happy to announce that the complete text of the November 1914 issue of Mother Earth is now available online at fair-use.org. In particular, if you haven’t yet, I would recommend taking a look at Guy Aldred’s essay That Economic Army (a reprint from the Spur). The obvious aspect of the essay is a long tirade against the hypocrisies of Labour Party politicians and trades unionists who are long since dead. But whether the polemic entertains you or not, underneath it there is also a really interesting analysis of how the pressure of state capitalism seizes and deforms individual people, and entire industries, into gears for the war machine, through what Aldred calls economic conscription, and how this constructs and confines their interests so as to create a shared interest in perpetuating war. (The question of course is how to become the sand in the gears, instead of the oil.) This next week, I’ll be working some more at Mother Earth and Liberty, and completing the first run of Bits & Pieces (that is, getting through the material that was actually presented at the APEE panel), and hopefully coming back around to some related commentary. Also got a big pile of contact information from the last couple weeks’ A-Cafes that needs to be processed.

That’s my Shamelessness for the week. What about y'all? What have you been up to this week? Write anything? Leave a link and a short description for your post in the comments. Or fire away about anything else you might want to talk about.

• If the TSA Were Running New York. John Gruber, Daring Fireball (2010-05-03). James Fallows: All vans or SUVs headed into Midtown Manhattan would have to stop and have their contents inspected. If any vehicle seemed for any reason to have escaped inspection, Midtown in its entirety would be evacuated. And: The point of terrorism is not to "destroy." It is to terrify…. (Linked Tuesday 2010-05-04.)

The State In Action. Austro-Athenian Empire (2010-05-04):

Forty years ago today, Ohio National Guardsmen murdered four unarmed students at Kent State and wounded nine others, permanently paralysing one. (CHT Making Light for the reminder.) The students' crime? Protesting the invasion of Cambodia (or, in some cases, walking nearby while others were protesting it). "That is government; that…