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Bye-Bye for IP. Roderick, Austro-Athenian Empire (2010-05-20). Another blast from the past, out of the same box: I believe this letter to the Durham-based Independent Weekly was published, in some form at any rate. 3 February 1995 To the Editor: The copyright hassles of Blaise Faint (Independent Weekly 2/1/95) [2010 note: alas, I no longer recall what… (Linked Saturday 2010-05-22.)

Uncle Grady Still Has a Gun. Roderick, Austro-Athenian Empire (2010-05-22). The following letter appeared in today's Opelika-Auburn News; it's a rejoinder to a recent reply to my "Uncle Grady" letter. To the Editor: Carol Robicheaux (May 15) accuses me of hubris, hypocrisy, and naivety for my preference for voluntary modes of social organization over coercive ones – as though personal… (Linked Saturday 2010-05-22.)

How Walter Williams Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the State. Roderick, Austro-Athenian Empire (2010-05-22). Walter Williams asks (CHT LRC): There are close to 7 billion people on our planet. I'd like to know how the libertarians answer this question: Does each individual on the planet have a natural or God-given right to live in the U.S.? ... I believe most people, even my open-borders… (Linked Saturday 2010-05-22.)

05/21/10 PHD comic: ‘If only’ PHD Comics (2010-05-23). Piled Higher & Deeper by Jorge Cham www.phdcomics.com title: "If only" – originally published 5/21/2010 For the latest news in PHD Comics, CLICK HERE! (Linked Sunday 2010-05-23.)

Infrastructures. xkcd.com (2010-05-20). (Linked Sunday 2010-05-23.)

I’m a criminal and so are you. Tennyson McCalla, Tennyson McCalla's Facebook Links (2010-05-21). I’m a criminal and so are youSource: www.cnn.comWho am I? How do I identify? Â  Â [H/T Jo Hastings. This is good stuff.]”Lately, I’ve been telling people that I’m a criminal. This shocks most people, since I don’t ‘look like’ one. I’m a fairly clean-cut, light-skinned black woman with fancy degrees from Vanderbilt… (Linked Sunday 2010-05-23.)

Julian Heicklen's 2010-05-14 Progress Report. bile, blog of bile (2010-05-15). FIJA DISTRIBUTIONS MAY 10–14, 2010 1. FIJA Demonstration in Trenton, NJ, 5/10/10 Jim Babb, George Donnelly, and I arrived at the U. S. District Courthouse at 402 E. State Street in Trenton, NJ, at 11:40 am on Monday, May 10, 2010. It was a sunny, but chilly and mildly windy… (Linked Sunday 2010-05-23.)

And they moved to Stars Hollow and lived happily ever after. Jill, I Blame The Patriarchy (2010-05-16). This post would have appeared earlier, but I only just now got the gore and debris cleaned up. I allude to the obstreperal lobe tissue dripping from the bunkhouse rafters. That's right, I blew another lobe, and no doubt you did, too, when you heard about the insane bill that… (Linked Sunday 2010-05-23.)

Counter Culture. Neverfox, Anarchoblogs in English (2010-05-23). Allison Kilkenny writes: The free market can't provide solutions to many social problems. As Oliver Willis (sarcastically) put it, "instead of boycotting [the] bus, rosa parks should have been an entrepreneur and started her own bus service. let the market decide." Therein lies the problem with Libertarian [sic] philosophy. Social… (Linked Monday 2010-05-24.)