• Trance Licensing. Jesse Walker, Jesse Walker: Reason Magazine articles and blog posts. (2009-12-04). Kevin Carey tells a tale: While Congress has become pretty thoroughly professionalized in recent decades, state legislatures are still home to some genuinely eccentric people. Back when I was working for the Indiana General Assembly, one member (and not the member who was, no lie, a radio psychic) became convinced… (Linked Saturday 2009-12-05.)
• diveintomark: There appear to be people on the internet who espouse political views that differ from my own. Which epithet should I use to describe them? Twitter / diveintomark (2009-12-04). diveintomark: There appear to be people on the internet who espouse political views that differ from my own. Which epithet should I use to describe them? (Linked Saturday 2009-12-05.)

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• THE PARTS LEFT OUT OF THE SESAME STREET ARTICLE: Before Sesame. Jesse, The Perpetual Three-Dot Column (2009-10-23). THE PARTS LEFT OUT OF THE SESAME STREET ARTICLE: Before Sesame Street, "educational TV" usually meant awkward efforts to broadcast academic content in a traditional academic manner. Afterwards it meant trying to discern what kids were already learning from television and to reverse-engineer a method of delivering lessons the same… (Linked Friday 2009-12-04.)

• Libertaria?@c5;201e;ski Feminizm! Roderick, Austro-Athenian Empire (2009-11-30). I just received in the mail, kindly sent to me by W?@c5;201a;odzimierz Gog?@c5;201a;oza, a Polish libertarian magazine called MindFuck (pronounced, I assume, "Minndfootsk") that includes translations into Polish of the libertarian feminist piece I wrote with Charles, Libertarian Feminism: Can This Marriage Be Saved?, as well as my blog post… (Linked Monday 2009-11-30.)
• 2 more narcs taken off the street in corruption probe – Philadelphia Inquirer. "Thomas Tolstoy" – Google News (2009-11-30). In which democratic government ensures that government police are accountable to the people, rather than to the powerful and well-connected. ‘”It doesn’t mean that they will be terminated, arrested or face any disciplinary action,” DiLacqua said. “As the investigation is ongoing, some may be returned to full duty.”‘ (Linked Monday 2009-11-30.)
• so this morning in the tacoma cop-killer case, police were. Captain Capitulation, eye of the storm (2009-11-30). so this morning in the tacoma cop-killer case, police were reported to have surrounded a house, and to be trying to remove the suspect using "loudspeakers," "explosions," and "occasional gunshots." now he's on the loose? so what the hell were they blowing up and shooting at? (Linked Monday 2009-11-30.)
• Bad Boys. Daily Brickbats (2009-11-30). In which an “elite” “anti-gang” unit within the Chicago city government’s police force turns out to be nothing more than the baddest gang on the block. Specially Operating government cops used their police powers to conduct repeated traffic stops without cause, steal their victims’ keys, storm their homes without warrants, and rob their victims of hundreds of thousands of dollars in cash and drugs. Along the way they kidnapped several people, beat the hell out of them, and at one point even endangered the life of a diabetic victim by refusing to let him have insulin until he told them where his stash of money was hidden. Four of these out-of-control hyperviolent extortionist thugs, who made off with hundreds of thousands of dollars each, and who personally participated in kidnapping, torturing and nearly murdering those who stood in their racket’s way, will have all but one of the lesser charges against each of them dropped, and will spend six months in jail. All thanks to a special deal they cut with their fellow government employees at the District Attorney’s office. (Linked Monday 2009-11-30.)
• Easy Rider. Daily Brickbats (2009-11-30). All animals are equal, but some are more equal than others. (Linked Monday 2009-11-30.)
• Bait and Switch. Dorothy, Cat and Girl (2009-12-01). (Linked Wednesday 2009-12-02.)

• Sucky proposed NJ adoption law. drunkenatheist, Drunkenatheist (2009-11-26). I bet that Matthew Roberts, birthson of Charles Manson, is so thrilled that he looked into his family tree! So, apparently the State of NJ is looking to open up sealed adoption records. I love shit like this.  You entered a contract that stipulates you will have no contact with… (Linked Friday 2009-11-27.)
• The Bullets of Egypt, Maine. Jesse Walker, Jesse Walker: Reason Magazine articles and blog posts. (2009-11-25). Amidst all the hype about the return of the militias, Christopher Ketcham reports in Time that one of the most interesting offshoots of the '90s militia scene, the 2nd Maine Militia, is still going strong. Founded by the novelist Carolyn Chute and her husband Michael, the Maine group mixes anti-corporate… (Linked Friday 2009-11-27.)
• Franklin & Franklin's Thanksgiving Special. Jesse Walker, Jesse Walker: Reason Magazine articles and blog posts. (2009-11-25). In honor of tomorrow's holiday, here is Benjamin Franklin's famous argument that the turkey should be our national bird: For my own part I wish the bald eagle had not been chosen the representative of our country; he is a bird of bad moral character; he does not get his… (Linked Friday 2009-11-27.)
• (title unknown) eye of the storm (2009-11-27). Sartwell is wrong to claim that Analytic “sense data” theories are wrong because based in “our own mental images.” (They are of course wrong, but for other reasons. Russell for one argues explicitly that sense-data are not mental entities of any kind.) But, otherwise, lovely. (Linked Friday 2009-11-27.)
• Dept. of Animated Economics. Jesse Walker, Jesse Walker: Reason Magazine articles and blog posts. (2009-11-29). An interesting animated infographic: "The Geography of a Recession." (Hat tip: Shawn Wilbur.) (Linked Sunday 2009-11-29.)