Shameless Self-promotion Sunday #32
Here's a pretty old post from the blog archives of Geekery Today; it was written about 16 years ago, in 2008, on the World Wide Web.
It’s Sunday Shameless Sunday. And in the spirit of self-promotion, I will note that Roderick has helpfully posted directions to the room for the Molinari Society’s APA session tomorrow (at which I will be appearing, as one of the Authors in an Authors-Meet-Critics).
The Molinari Symposium will be held in Independence Meeting Room II. (The APA program supplement says
Independence Ballroom IIbut there is no such animal; the Independence Meeting Rooms are next to the Liberty Ballroom.)Independence Meeting Room II is hard to find because it's actually across the street (via skybridge) from the main hotel, in something called the
Deluxe Tower(or, less glamorously, the3rd Floor Annex).How to find Independence Meeting Room II: from the hotel lobby (1st floor), take the escalator (not the elevator) to the 3rd floor. (It goes directly from 1st to 3rd; I'm not sure there even is a 2nd floor.) Follow the signs that say
Deluxe TowerorBridge to Convention Center.Cross the skybridge; at the other end you'll see an arrow pointing left sayingConvention Centerand an arrow pointing right sayingMarriott; go right.
Anyway, as for y’all–what have you been up to in the past 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.
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First, a stab at shaming the tools of oppression, here.
Then, a diary entry from hell, here. Yes, true, yes just happened today, and yes I’m still on suicide watch. Big fun.
I haven’t written about it on my own blog yet, but I’ve posted a rough translation of about 17 pages from Proudhon’s “War and Peace” in the Libertarian Labyrinth archive. Frequently cited as evidence of Proudhon’s enthusiasm for war, the work actually ends with the line, “HUMANITY WANTS NO MORE WAR,” and presents a rather interesting account of how the histories of war, right and justice have been intertwined. We’ve discussed this stuff a little bit over at the Forums of the Libertarian Left.
I write the web-comics Escape From Terra and draw ODYSSEUS THE REBEL several weeks in advance of their on-line updates, which gets a bit frustrating sometimes because I’ll work through a particularly exciting passage in a given week but can’t really talk about it.
But I will say this: In about 40 pages or so, ODYSSEUS will depart a bit from the traditional story-line to discover an island the likes of which will give most anarchists a major boner.
There will be major developments in EFT as well but I can’t even hint about those without spoiling the plot. So, just add the site to your RSS feed and follow along, ok?
“I will never apologize for the United States — I don’t care what the facts are… I’m not an apologize-for-America kind of guy.”
http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/George_H._W._Bush
Like Aster mentioned in our Mike G thread, there’s always the “indispensable” nation. The frothing at the mouth volkish Republican conservatives in our midst are true believers.
“I will never apologize for the United States — I don’t care what the facts are… I’m not an apologize-for-America kind of guy.”
Ha. Amusingly, I agree 100% with this statement, but for what I suspect are very different reasons.