• Grassroots Activist Center opens in Lake Worth – Palm Beach Post. "Food Not Bombs" – Google News (2009-12-16). Grassroots Activist Center opens in Lake WorthPalm Beach Post… including the Palm Beach County Environmental Coalition, Everglades Earth First, West Palm Beach Food Not Bombs and the South Florida Activist Defense … (Linked Friday 2009-12-25.)
• On recent controversy. Brad Spangler, BradSpangler.com (2009-12-23). I would have liked, in this blog post this morning, to be comparing Kevin Carson's recent commentary, "Libertarians for Junk Science", and Stephen Kinsella's response. I believe that would have been a far more interesting and productive piece for me to write, particularly in the context of Sheldon Richman's recent… (Linked Friday 2009-12-25.)
• Chicago police shooting verdict is overturned. Chicago Breaking News (2009-12-27). In which government judges overturn a verdict that would have made their government colleagues pay out $12,500,000 in compensation for the murder of an unarmed man by government police. Apparently, even though lawyers for the city admitted that the government cop’s shooting met the legal standards for being “willful and wanton” conduct, you’re not allowed to say so in court, because using legal terms that THE DEFENDANTS THEMSELVES ADMIT TO BE ACCURATE, somehow impairs the government’s precious right to a fair trial. (Linked Sunday 2009-12-27.)

It’s Sunday. Time to get Shameless.

I’m about to get on a train bound for New York — where I’ll be presenting comments for the Molinari Society symposium on intellectual property and then heading over to talk with the guys from Thinking Liberty. (More on that anon.) Shortly thereafter, back to Michigan for New Year’s and then back home to Vegas.

And you? 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.

• A Choice of Scrooges. Roderick, Austro-Athenian Empire (2009-12-24). Two rather different libertarian takes on Scrooge: Butler Shaffer's and mine. (Mine's from 1993, so it's not quite as I would word it today, but 'twill serve.) (Linked Thursday 2009-12-24.)
• Libertarian PR Fail #...But Who's Counting? cherylcline, der Blaustrumpf (2009-12-22). For some reason this has really been a banner week for me in encountering casual anti-Asian racism.  I was very distressed to find this on Strike the Root, a website I contribute to.  This is Bob Wallace in "How to Win in Iraq and Afghanistan in One Easy Step": I'll… (Linked Thursday 2009-12-24.)
• ALLiance #4. Chris Lempa, ALLiance Journal (2009-12-11). ALLiance 4 HTML coming soon. Download and read. print. fold. distribute. Like this? Share it… right now! (Linked Friday 2009-12-25.)

• Thomas Friedman, Goodwill Ambassador. Jesse Walker: Reason Magazine articles and blog posts. (2009-12-22). In which Tom Friedman declares that “Islam needs the same civil war” as the U.S. had a few years back. Apparently as part of his ongoing campaign to establish himself as the stupidest man alive. (Linked Tuesday 2009-12-22.)

• HOLY SPIRITS: The new Utne Reader includes an abridged version. Jesse, The Perpetual Three-Dot Column (2009-12-17). HOLY SPIRITS: The new Utne Reader includes an abridged version of my "Paranoid Center" article. I also have a Web column on the Reason site today, titled "Five Reasons for Optimism" and subtitled "As awful as the times may seem, they also contain seeds of hope." And my review of… (Linked Friday 2009-12-18.)
• Give Me Back My Google. John Gruber, Daring Fireball (2009-12-17). Re: today's prior link on crummy Google search results, Give Me Back My Google is a front end to Google web search by Oliver Humpage that filters out affiliate link and product comparison sites from the results. (Via Kevin Maguire.)  â˜…  (Linked Sunday 2009-12-20.)