• Fantastic Photos of our Solar System. The Big Picture (2009-10-28). The Universe is awesome. (Cont’d.) (Linked Wednesday 2009-10-28.)

• Nokia Sues Apple, Claims iPhone Infringes on Slew of Patents. Daring Fireball (2009-10-24). In which government-imposed patent monopolies once again promote science and the useful arts by rewarding innovative research and development. (Linked Saturday 2009-10-24.)
• Would-be bounty hunters nab innocent woman in Bristol. State & Regional Politics for Richmond Times-Dispatch (2009-10-25). 1. The bounty hunters didn’t just “nab the wrong woman.” They strip-searched and sexually assaulted her. 2. As a result, these three rampaging rapist thugs are facing arrest and multiple charges of abduction, robbery, and sexual battery. As well they should be — and I hope they rot. But care to guess how many charges they would be facing if they really were on that government police “drug task force” they pretended to be on, and did exactly the same thing to exactly the same innocent woman?
  
  (If your guess is “any,” guess again.) (Linked Sunday 2009-10-25.)
• Sexist Beatdown: The Happy Hooker, Or Why Doesn't Steven Levitt Suck Dick For a Living? The Sexist (2009-10-25). In which Econo-Creep Central Junior Partners Levitt and Dubner examine the economics of sex work with a sample size of N=2. (Linked Sunday 2009-10-25.)
• Soviet Shoes, by David Henderson. EconLog (2009-09-30). I mentioned in Tuesday’s post that one of my favorite passages from Scott Shane’s Dismantling Utopia is the passage about shoes. Commenter Bill asked me for the passage. Here it is: My informal survey suggested that some of the longest lines in Moscow were for shoes. At first I assumed… (Linked Sunday 2009-10-25.)
• Miroslav Pa?@c5;a1;ek's work, in pictures. Mike Gogulski – nostate.com, Anarchoblogs in English (2009-10-23). A couple of post-police attack photos, taken on 6 September 2009, the day after. Bruising to right upper arm showing finger impressions of Miroslav Pa?@c5;a1;ek Slovak State Police hired thug Miroslav Pa?@c5;a1;ek has learned how to inflict great pain with his hands while leaving few if any marks on the… (Linked Sunday 2009-10-25.)
• How an insurance mandate could leave many worse off. Marginal Revolution (2009-10-26). In which it is discovered that forcing working folks to pay for big corporate health insurance, whether they want to or not, and whether they can afford to or not, might turn out to prop up big corporate health insurers at the expense of working folks. (Linked Monday 2009-10-26.)

Hey everyone, it’s Sunday Shameless Sunday.

If you’ve been reading here lately, you may know what I’ve been doing over the past few weeks: helping with the organizing for the Living Without Borders encuentro coming up in Vegas.

And 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.

• The Hand-Me-Down Style in American Punditry. Jesse Walker, Hit & Run (2009-10-22). Tom Frank has devoted his latest Wall Street Journal column to Richard Hofstadter’s “The Paranoid Style in American Politics,” which he rereads in an effort to illuminate the Birthers, Glenn Beck, and the other usual suspects. Not content to recycle an article already written by seemingly every other pundit in… (Linked Friday 2009-10-23.)
• Sara Kruzan: Life Without Parole for Killing her Pimp. Feministing (2009-10-23). *Content is triggering* This story speaks for itself. From the free Sara Kruzan action page at change.org: “Life without parole means absolutely no opportunity for release,” said Senator Yee. (of California) “It also means minors are often left without access to programs and rehabilitative services while in prison. This sentence… (Linked Friday 2009-10-23.)
• Dragnet against Domestic Terror Targets "Food Not Bombs" Group. Phil Leggiere, Don't Tase Me, Bro! (2009-10-21). From Law and Disorder Radio: The government has stepped up its surveillance of a range of individuals and organizations, including volunteer-based groups. After providing free vegetarian food in hundreds of communities worldwide, Food Not Bombs has found itself a part of the domestic terrorism dragnet. Co-founded by Keith McHenry and… (Linked Friday 2009-10-23.)
• Report on Slovak State Police attacks against Mike Gogulski, 5 September 2009. Mike Gogulski – nostate.com, Anarchoblogs in English (2009-10-21). To all who pledged to support me in this matter, I would ask that you republish the below information as broadly as possible, and without delay. Also available in MS Word 2003, PDF, and MS-Word exported filtered HTML formats. REVISION HISTORY v1.0 – 20090906 Original version, real names, episodes 1-9,… (Linked Friday 2009-10-23.)
• Live Free or Go To Jail: Irony, Logic and the Government. Kelly W. Patterson, Anarchoblogs in English (2009-10-15). I’ve been working to put together another blog that will be based on ideas to eliminate many personal expenses and make money in non-tradition ways in order to lower your tax burden without starving or going to prison. Having settled on some variation of “Live Free or Die” as a… (Linked Friday 2009-10-23.)
• Crisis And Opportunity. DarianW, Anarchoblogs in English (2009-10-16). We might be living in a very different world five years from now. If we want this to be a better world, we have to put our hands into history. Notions of stability, freedom, and personal identity are tied up with authoritarian ideas. This must be broken. A weakened political… (Linked Friday 2009-10-23.)
• Pro-Choice on Everything. Kerry Howley, Kerry Howley (2009-10-20). I think choice-loving libertarians have an obligation to foster a more liberal and feminist culture. Todd Seavey and Daniel McCarthy strenuously disagree. Our combative exchange in the November issue of Reason is now online. (Linked Friday 2009-10-23.)
• [TX] Officer Welty sex assault of a family member. Behind The Blue Wall (2009-10-23). Rapists in uniform. (Cont’d.) (Linked Friday 2009-10-23.)

• His Aim Is True. Daily Brickbats (2009-10-19). Tasered for running away. I guess she’s lucky he didn’t shoot her. (Linked Monday 2009-10-19.)
• Cop Choler. Daily Brickbats (2009-08-27). It began with a domestic dispute call. But after Philadelphia police Officer Tamika Gross got to the scene it escalated to her challenging Latifa Savage to a fight then striking her. By all accounts Savage got the upper hand against the much larger cop, until other officers arrived and Savage… (Linked Monday 2009-10-19.)
• Too Hot. Daily Brickbats (2009-08-31). Western Australia Coroner Alastair Hope ruled an aboriginal elder basically cooked to death in the back of a jail van he was being transported in one hot day. The man, identified only as Mr. Ward, had been picked up for drunk driving the previous day. The coroner said the man… (Linked Monday 2009-10-19.)
• The Blue Knight. Daily Brickbats (2009-10-19). Thugs on patrol: Officer Jeffrey Robinson, Tarpon Springs, Florida, resigned after admitting he slashed a homeless man’s bicycle tires, while the bike was held in a police department storage area. Robinson said he was angry because the man used racial slurs against him when he was taking him to jail on trespassing charges 10 days earlier. (Linked Monday 2009-10-19.)
• A Shocking Development. Daily Brickbats (2009-10-19). Here’s a funny joke you can try on your friends — if you happen to be a government cop: sneak up on them and blast them with a 50,000-volt electric shock. Ho, ho, ho. (Linked Monday 2009-10-19.)
• And Happy Birthday to You, Too. Daily Brickbats (2009-10-02). In England, riot police wearing body armor and backed by a helicopter stormed Andrew Poole’s birthday party and barbecue and shut it down. There were just 15 people at the party, and Poole says they hadn’t even put any music on. But a police spokesperson said they had a right… (Linked Monday 2009-10-19.)
• No Professional Courtesy. Daily Brickbats (2009-10-08). The Riverside County, California, government has paid Salvador Pina, a retired sheriff’s deputy, $125,000 to settle a federal civil rights lawsuit. Pina claimed that sheriff’s deputies illegally beat and detained him at his home, even after former colleagues recognized him and a sheriff’s technician told them they were at the… (Linked Monday 2009-10-19.)
• Drunk with Power. Daily Brickbats (2009-10-12). Travis Peterson knew he was too drunk to drive home after a concert by the Dave Matthews Band, so he decided to sleep it off in his car. But a Wisconsin state trooper woke him up and ordered him to leave the parking lot. Peterson explained he was too drunk… (Linked Monday 2009-10-19.)
• You Don’t Look Like an American. Daily Brickbats (2009-10-19). The reason you should oppose immigration laws is because of what they do to immigrants. But it’s also worth remembering that those who believe that they can oppose the domestic police state without challenging government immigration restrictions are living in a fantasy-land. There is some way for governments to enforce border controls without inflicting police state measures and out-of-control kangaroo courts on everybody, whether they are immigrants or not. (Linked Monday 2009-10-19.)
• Tucked. Daily Brickbats (2009-10-19). Rapists on patrol (cont’d) / Men in uniform (cont’d) / Public schooling (cont’d). Officer Christopher Lloyd, Dolton, Illinois. Smashed a special needs student into a locker and then onto the ground over an alleged dress code violation. (Also, Officer Christopher Lloyd says the kid swore at him.) Then Officer Christopher was arrested for raping a woman in Hammond. Turns out that he got his job in Dolton after he had been suspended from his job in Robbins. Reason he was suspended is that he rolled up to his ex-wife’s house last February and gunned down her new husband in front of their children. I guess the reason this hyperviolent psychopathic abuser was hired back on by the Dolton city government’s police force is that the Chicago city government’s police force took his word for it when he claimed that lighting up his ex-wife’s new husband with 24 shots was a form of "self-defense." / Rapists on patrol (cont’d). Men in Uniform (cont’d). Public schooling (cont’d). Police accountability (cont’d). Officer Christopher Lloyd, Dolton, Illinois. Recently arrested for raping a female acquaintance. (He’d already threatened her with a knife.) Before that, he’d smashed a 15 year old special needs student into a locker and then down onto the ground for having his shirt untucked at school, and for swearing at a police officer. He broke the kid’s nose. The reason he got a job on the government police force in Dolton is because the previous year, the government police force in Chicago decided not to press charges against him for rolling up on his ex-wife’s house and gunning down her new husband in front of their children. The Chicago cops figured that lighting him up with 24 shots outside of his own home was "self-defense." (Linked Monday 2009-10-19.)
• Make a Run for the Border. Daily Brickbats (2009-09-18). Immigration controls. Police state. Ditto, etc. (Linked Monday 2009-10-19.)