• Ex-New Orleans Cop Pleads Guilty To Massive Cover Up In Post-Katrina Shootings | TPMMuckraker. tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com (2010-02-26). “A veteran New Orleans police officer pleaded guilty yesterday to orchestrating an elaborate cover-up of a shooting in the days after Katrina in which police gunned down six unarmed city residents, killing two and seriously wounding four. …” (Linked Friday 2010-02-26.)
• Cutting Up Your Credit Cards. Jesse Walker, Jesse Walker: Reason Magazine articles and blog posts. (2010-02-25). "The banks and credit card companies have spent 50 years building a proprietary, locked-down system that handles roughly $2 trillion in credit card transactions and another $1.3 trillion in debit card transactions every year," Daniel Roth writes in Wired. But now "an army of engineers and entrepreneurs is rushing in,… (Linked Friday 2010-02-26.)
• Health Care and Radical Monopoly | The Freeman | Ideas On Liberty. Google Alerts – http://www.thefreemanonline.org/featured/scratching-by-how-government-creates-poverty-as-we-know-it/ (2010-02-24). The Freeman Online. Published by the Foundation for Economic Education …. in " Scratching By: How the Government Creates Poverty as We Know It" (The … (Linked Saturday 2010-02-27.)
• "Two-Gun" Mutualism? – Part 1. Shawn P. Wilbur, Out of the Libertarian Labyrinth (2010-02-27). "TWO-GUN" MUTUALISMand theGOLDEN RULEThus one remains in perplexity and uncertainty, equally attracted and repulsed by two opposite attractors. Yes, the sympathies of our era are equally lively, equally energetic, whether it is a question of liberty or equality, of individuality or association. The faith in society is complete, but the… (Linked Saturday 2010-02-27.)
• Two-Gun Mutualism? – Part 2. Shawn P. Wilbur, Out of the Libertarian Labyrinth (2010-02-27). "TWO-GUN" MUTUALISMand theGOLDEN RULE[continued]INDIVIDUALISM vs SOCIALISMIt is clear that, in all of this writing, it is necessary to understand by socialism, socialism as we define it in this work itself, which is as the exaggeration of the idea of association, or of society. For a number of years, we have… (Linked Saturday 2010-02-27.)

It’s Sunday night. Late, I know. But on a night like tonight, it is never too late. A night of love. A night of rage. A night of Shamelessness.

You know the deal. 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.

• Floor Fees and Thick Libertarianism. Gary Chartier, link:http://radgeek.com/ – Google Blog Search (2010-02-21). Readers of this blog, especially those who have long since concluded that partisan politics is useless or worse, can be pardoned if they’ve avoided reading about or participating in the ongoing dispute over the tentative decision to … (Linked Wednesday 2010-02-24.)
• Anti-statism: What about the poor and disabled? Brad Spangler, BradSpangler.com (2010-02-24). A correspondent asks: Can you lead me to info on where Ron Paul stands on the disabled and the poor? No hurry. I'm at the embryonic end of my journey on learning about Anarchism and its branches. I don't support electing Ron Paul or anybody else. There's a similarity of… (Linked Thursday 2010-02-25.)
• Quoted: Wired Magazine on How to Raise Racist Kids. Thea Lim, Racialicious – the intersection of race and pop culture (2010-02-24). By Deputy Editor Thea Lim From How to Raise Racist Kids by Jonathan Liu: Step One: Don't talk about race. Don't point out skin color. Be "color blind." Step Two: Actually, that's it. There is no Step Two. Congratulations! Your children are well on their way to believing that <insert… (Linked Thursday 2010-02-25.)
• Looking Forward To Liberty. Darian Worden, Center for a Stateless Society (2010-02-18). When people focus too much on icons of the past – like a famous Tea Party – the lessons that history contains become obscured. People who believe they are against government power can be led into supporting more power if they don't look for alternatives to rulers. George Santayana warned… (Linked Thursday 2010-02-25.)
• PeTA's Worst Dressed for 2010: An Exercise In Shame. Womanist Musings (2010-02-25). Here we go again. PeTA moves on from their usual violent misogyny to demonstrate something about intersectionality — by adding not only misogyny, but also some nasty racism into the mix. (Linked Thursday 2010-02-25.)
• How to Start Doing Agorism. George Donnelly, Anarchoblogs (2010-02-09). The million-dollar question – how do we start doing agorism? We're convinced the right way out of this tyrannous morass is to starve the bastards out by trading outside of their purview. We're giving up on voting in their sham elections. We're tired of begging them for relief from their… (Linked Thursday 2010-02-25.)
• Don't Call It a 'Defense' Budget. Commondreams.org Views (2010-02-25). “The new budget from the White House will push U.S. military spending well above $2 billion a day.” Thank God we elected Obama to stop the wars and bring the troops home. (Linked Thursday 2010-02-25.)
• Why I'll Never Have Kids, Part MMMCCXVIII. Ravings of a Feral Genius (2010-02-25). In which a gang of Fertility Cult doctors use a court order to imprison a 26-year-old woman against her will and force her to undergo unwanted treatments to “preserve the life and health of [her] unborn child.” (Linked Thursday 2010-02-25.)

• Giving Up On Patents. ongoing by Tim Bray (2010-02-23). "Not so many years ago, even as I was filled with fear and loathing of the hideous misconduct of the US Patent & Trademark Office, I retained some respect for the notion of patents. I even wrote what I think is an unusually easy-to-read introduction to Patent Theory. But no more. The whole thing is too broken to be fixed. Maybe it worked once, but it doesn't any more. The patent system needs to be torn down and thrown out. . . . And here are a few words for the huge community of legal professionals who make their living pursuing patent law: You're actively damaging society. Look in the mirror and find something better to do." (Linked Tuesday 2010-02-23.)
• Happy Birthday, BBS! Scott Merrill, TechCrunch (2010-02-17). WWIV, Wildcat, Celerity — these hallowed names represent the best of a golden era of communication, back when "getting online" meant tying up the family phone line, remembering arcane Hayes AT codes to maximize performance out of the 9600 baud modem your dad borrowed from work, and TradeWars was the… (Linked Tuesday 2010-02-23.)
• For Your Own Good. cherylcline, der Blaustrumpf (2010-02-23). Well, this is horrifying.  From Slate.com, the story of how federal officials not only outlawed alcohol, but poisoned industrial alcohols as well: Doctors were accustomed to alcohol poisoning by then, the routine of life in the Prohibition era. The bootlegged whiskies and so-called gins often made people sick. The liquor… (Linked Tuesday 2010-02-23.)

• Remains of the Day: Why Piracy Works Edition [For What It’s Worth] Adam Pash, Lifehacker (2010-02-18). A fed up movie-watcher explains in pictures how buying is more hostile to consumers than pirating, a school spies on students at home through webcams, and Bill Gates gives a great presentation.(Click the image above for a closer look.) Why Piracy Works See image above. [via Kevin Marks] When are… (Linked Saturday 2010-02-20.)
• Hulu May Come to iPad as Paid Subscription Service. Daring Fireball (2010-02-21). Intellectual Protectionism Vs. The Progress of the Arts and Sciences. (Cont’d.) “This sort of nonsense gets to the bottom of what's wrong with these entertainment executives' outlook on the world. They want to define everything by arbitrary device types — this is a ‘TV’, that is a ‘computer’, this other thing is a ‘mobile device’ — and then sell/distribute the same content to different device types separately and with no spillage. But it's all bullshit in the digital world.” (Linked Sunday 2010-02-21.)
• Mount Vernon Mush. Jesse Walker, Jesse Walker: Reason Magazine articles and blog posts. (2010-02-17). A bunch of right-wing heavyweights (and middleweights, and lightweights) have put together the Mount Vernon Statement, purportedly a manifesto for "constitutional conservatism." Glenn Reynolds writes that it's "heavy on small-government stuff, and light on social-issue meddling," and he suggests that "this supports the notion of a libertarian shift on the… (Linked Monday 2010-02-22.)
• Review: Neil Gershenfeld’s FAB. John Baichtal, MAKE Magazine (2010-02-19). When Neil Gershenfeld, director of MIT’s Center for Bits and Atoms, offered a class titled “How to Make (almost) Anything,” he was surprised to find himself inundated by students. In particular, Gershenfeld was taken aback by the fact that these students weren’t taking the class for some sort of abstract… (Linked Monday 2010-02-22.)