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• Chronic Ironic Postergirl of the nineties. Theis S?@c3;b8;ndergaard, Wired Reread (2010-03-12). Scan originally appeared in Wired 03.11, November 1995. What I find truly ironic about the 90’s was that none of us teenagers back then had yet grasped the distinction between irony and sarcasm, thus we coined the phrase Chronic Ironic about our extensive use of sarcasm, unwittingly doing something incredibly… (Linked Wednesday 2010-03-31.)

• More Of The Same. Jennifer, Ravings of a Feral Genius (2010-03-22). “Hey, America! You know those wealthy, politically connected corporations who totally trashed our economy? We’ve decided to reward them with more of your money.”That’s what the government did with the bank bailouts, and now they’re doing it with the health insurance companies, too. Frankly, I suspect an outright single-payer program… (Linked Wednesday 2010-03-31.)

• Und Now Ze Pig. cherylcline, der Blaustrumpf (2010-03-31). I think we all ought to be suspicious not only of William Golding's novel The Lord of the Flies, but also the timing with which it is assigned in public schools.  I recall being compelled to read the book in early high school.  Along with The Catcher in the Rye,… (Linked Wednesday 2010-03-31.)

• The Mutualist #1 – Intro. Shawn P. Wilbur, Out of the Libertarian Labyrinth (2010-03-31). I’m putting the finishing touches on issue #1 of The Mutualist, and will start shipping orders over the next couple of days. Here is the introduction to that issue:Out of the LabyrinthThis first issue of THE MUTUALIST continues the work begun in the two issues of LEFTLIBERTY, but with significant… (Linked Wednesday 2010-03-31.)

• New Sim City. cdn-www.cracked.com (2010-04-01). (Linked Thursday 2010-04-01.)

• The war on WikiLeaks and why it matters. www.salon.com (2010-03-30). BBC’s “The Culture Show” Julian Assange, editor of WikiLeaks. A newly leaked CIA report prepared earlier this month (.pdf) analyzes how the U.S. Government can best manipulate public opinion in Germany and France — in order to ensure that those countries continue to fight in Afghanistan.  The Report celebrates the fact that the… (Linked Tuesday 2010-03-30.)

• This amazing photo of Earth cost only $750 to take. CrunchGear (2010-03-30). Technological civilization is awesome. (Cont’d.) (Linked Tuesday 2010-03-30.)

• Government Intercepting Secure Internet Transfers? TeamColtra, United States Pirate Party (2010-03-27). Seth Schoen from EFF has recently run an article starting with the following: Today two computer security researchers, Christopher Soghoian and Sid Stamm, released a draft of a forthcoming research paper in which they present evidence that certificate authorities (CAs) may be cooperating with government agencies to help them spy undetected on "secure" encrypted communications…. (Linked Tuesday 2010-03-30.)

• Drawing the Line. Offsetting Behaviour (2010-03-30). In which the government of New Zealand pays a staff of pollsters to trudge up and down the street cursing out randomly selected homeowners. In the interest of public policy, of course. (Linked Tuesday 2010-03-30.)

• Goshen College Bows to Nationalism. Jesus Radicals (2010-03-31). Mennonite students Vs. American theo-nationalism and its War Anthem. (Linked Wednesday 2010-03-31.)

The Census and the Social Construction of Race. Contexts Blogs: All Blogs (2010-03-31):

Social and biological scientists agree that race and ethicity are social constructions, not biological categories.  The U.S. government, nonetheless, has an official position on what categories are "real."  You can find them on the U.S. Census (source): Alvaro V. asked us to talk a little bit about the Census.  So,…

On the nationalization of culture, race and ethnicity. The closer: “The changing categories in the U.S. Census show us that racial and ethnic categories are political categories. They are chosen by government officials who are responding not to biological realities, but to immigration, war, prejudice, and social movements.” Which is exactly why any libertarianism worthy of the name ought to include a healthy skepticism towards conventional delusions about these politically-fabricated, border-bound, power-entangled categories.

Regulation of the Day 130: Roommates. OpenMarket.org (2010-03-30):

In New York City, it is illegal for four or more unrelated people to live together. At least 15,000 New York homes openly flout the rule. The ranks of lawless hooligans cut across lines of class and race. According to the New York Times, violators "include young actors and ponytailed…

Yet another way that government intervention and Land Monopoly creates sprawl, ratchets up fixed costs of living, and artificially transfers money from working folks to landlords and “developers.”

Countereconomics is already making inroads; but 15,000-odd people in New York City is only the first baby step towards freedom. A real free-market city would look nothing like the cartelized, rigidified land-grab sprawl created by the rigged markets and pervasive interventions by local governments that we have today.