• Raucous Radio. DarianW, DarianWorden.com (2010-07-20). If you haven't tuned into Thinking Liberty, you're missing a live anarcho-podcast that keeps getting better and better. In May we moved to a new location with our own equipment, and the quality of the production improved dramatically. The improvement in production quality made us more enthusiastic and confident in… (Linked Thursday 2010-07-22.)

• The Vault of Legislators. Jesse Walker, Jesse Walker: Reason Magazine articles and blog posts. (2010-07-22). Bryan Alexander describes one gothic remnant of the Cold War: a set of underground chambers that were supposed to serve as "an emergency shelter for the entire United States Congress, a hideout and bolt hole in case of nuclear war, hidden away beneath a benign-looking hotel." Built in 1958, the… (Linked Thursday 2010-07-22.)

• More protection for military faculty, or less? Kevin Smith, Scholarly Communications @ Duke (2010-07-20). Section 105 of the U.S. Copyright Law tells us that there can be no copyright in works of the federal government.  Almost uniquely among the nations of the world, the US government does not get to exclude others (including taxpayers) from using works created by government employees as part of… (Linked Thursday 2010-07-22.)

• Crowdsourcing Curation: The Social Graph as Gatekeeper. Eric Reasons, Eric Reasons (2010-07-20). I’ve written before about the compromise we tacitly agree to when amateurs take over the roles formerly held by professionsals. The Internet promotes this takeover by lowering the cost of production and transmission to near zero for nearly every user, for everything from words (blogs) to pictures (Flickr) to video… (Linked Thursday 2010-07-22.)

• Libertarianism on the Road. Matthew Yglesias (2010-07-22). Vulgar libertarianism is making yourself into a Toole of state capitalism. (Via Kevin Carson.) (Linked Thursday 2010-07-22.)

• Internet Archive sets goal to digitize more books – Rochester Democrat and Chronicle. "library" – Google News (2010-07-20). Internet Archive sets goal to digitize more booksRochester Democrat and ChronicleBrewster Kahle, a digital librarian and founder of a virtual library called the Internet Archive, www.archive.org, has launched a campaign to double the …Google preps projects to test digital librarySalt Lake Tribuneall 8 news articles Â» (Linked Thursday 2010-07-22.)

• The United States of British Petroleum. Charles Davis, false dichotomy by charles davis (2010-07-17). If you’re anything like me, or if you’ve spent more than five minutes over the last decade glancing at the headlines, you’re probably suffering from some form of outrage fatigue. Well, make room for one more thing to get mad about. From Reuters: Fishermen in Mississippi say they are angry… (Linked Monday 2010-07-19.)

• Don't shoot a milk enema all over my leg and tell me it's raining. pandagon.net – it's the eye of the panda, it's the thrill of the bite (2010-07-20). by Amanda Marcotte I've been following this "Buttman" trial with some interest, though I rightly suspected that it wouldn't get far.  I was glad when the case was dismissed. I dislike vicious, mean-spirited pornography as much as the next person who loves humanity, but I also tend to be a… (Linked Tuesday 2010-07-20.)

• Sheriff Joe’s War: Now More War-ry! Radley Balko, Hit & Run (2010-07-16). The Arizona Republic: In a stretch of barren desert alongside Interstate 8 near Gila Bend that has become a corridor for human and drug smuggling, Maricopa County Sheriff Joe Arpaio and about 100 men staged a crime-suppression operation Thursday. Arpaio brought with him a belt-fed .50-caliber machine gun that can… (Linked Friday 2010-07-16.)

• Cory Doctorow: Technology Can Be a Force for Liberation. Michel Bauwens, P2P Foundation (2010-07-15). Introduction to the Persian edition of the science fiction novel Little Brother, by Cory Doctorow, London, June 2008 Available for free download via http://www.archive.org/details/LilBroPersian, under the "Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0!!!@@e2;20ac;b3; Creative Commons license. Cory Doctorow: I wrote this book because I believe that technology can be a force for liberation. Not… (Linked Friday 2010-07-16.)

• "Free Market Capitalism" is an Oxymoron. Kevin Carson, Center for a Stateless Society (2010-07-17). It's pretty much standard for the chattering classes — both liberal and conservative — to refer to something called "our free market system," also known as "free market capitalism."  To the extent that the right-wingers at Fox and CNBC or on the editorial page of the Wall Street Journal advocate… (Linked Saturday 2010-07-17.)

• Why Misogynists Make Great Informants: How Gender Violence on the Left Enables State Violence in Radical Movements. inciteblog, INCITE! Blog (2010-07-15). Originally published in make/shift magazine Some people may have seen this article already, which has been making its rounds on Facebook and the blogosphere, but INCITE! blog editors loved it so much that we wanted to share it here. The piece was originally published in make/shift magazine's Spring/Summer 2010 issue… (Linked Saturday 2010-07-17.)

• "The New Abortion Providers" and the Old Political Dilemmas. Christine C., Our Bodies Our Blog (2010-07-16). The New York Times has published online an extensive article about "The New Abortion Providers" (it will appear in print in Sunday's Magazine), which I highly recommend reading. Such detailed reporting from a mainstream publication on the struggles of individual medical students and doctors to make abortion an accepted, integrated… (Linked Saturday 2010-07-17.)

• Matt Buchanan on the Droid X. Daring Fireball (2010-07-17). I linked this article because it contained the best slashing-review line I’ve read all day: “The software — a discordant melange of the not-so-fresh Android 2.1 and various bits of the Blur ‘social networking’ interface from Motorola's lower-end Android phones — is the shudder-inducing poster child for the horrors that can occur when most hardware companies try to make software. It's ugly, scattershot, and confusing. It feels almost malicious.” (Linked Saturday 2010-07-17.)

• Joseph Déjacque and "The Circulus in Universality" Out of the Libertarian Labyrinth (2010-07-17). “Now then the absence of orders is the true order. The law and the sword is only the order of bandits, the code of theft and murder that presides at the division of the spoils, at the massacre of the victims. It is on that bloody pivot that the civilized world turns. Anarchy is its antipode, and that antipode is the axis of the humanispherean world.” (Linked Saturday 2010-07-17.)

• Take me to the river… Shawn P. Wilbur, Out of the Libertarian Labyrinth (2010-07-18). Let’s say we gather the usual suspects, down by the river, in the State of Nature, or thereabouts, for some a bit of property theory and a few “good draughts.” John Locke says everybody can appropriate some river-water, as long as what they make their own “property” leaves “a whole… (Linked Sunday 2010-07-18.)

• 1996. xkcd.com (2010-07-18). Oh, TI-85, how I remember our time together, coding blackjack games in an indecipherable “programming language” when I was supposed to be paying attention in class… (Linked Sunday 2010-07-18.)

• Seattle’s Finest. Daily Brickbats (2010-07-19). Seattle prosecutors are reportedly looking at criminal charges against two local police officers. The two were caught on videotape kicking and stomping a Latino man as other officers watched. They’d stopped the man as a potential robbery suspect but left him go a sort time later after determining he was… (Linked Monday 2010-07-19.)

• New Zealand becomes a game-changer. Software patents no longer allowed « Icrontic Tech. tech.icrontic.com (2010-07-19). Brian Ambrozy (primesuspect) Today a New Zealand government minister announced that software should not be patentable. July 15, 2010 4:55 PM ET in News, intellectual property, law, patents, software Today the New Zealand government's office announced that Commerce Minister Simon Power instructed the Intellectual Property Office of New Zealand (IPONZ) to… (Linked Monday 2010-07-19.)

• feministhulk: HULK TRY TO WRITE POETRY ABOUT LOVE FOR SMASHING PATRIARCHY. WHAT RHYME WITH “HEGEMONY?” Twitter / feministhulk (2010-07-19). feministhulk: HULK TRY TO WRITE POETRY ABOUT LOVE FOR SMASHING PATRIARCHY. WHAT RHYME WITH “HEGEMONY?” (Linked Monday 2010-07-19.)

It’s Sunday again. A day of love, a day of rage, a day of Shamelessness.

I just got back in and am trying to recover from doing the biggest Food Not Bombs food pickup I have ever seen, then rolling out immediately afterwards to do Food Not Bombs in the park on a day where the temperature is a brisk 110 degrees Fahrenheit. After I’ve taken about 4 more cold showers, I’m going to get packing — I’m off to the Alabama for two weeks visiting my kinfolks. (For fig-harvesting season, and for my 29^th birthday, which happens to fall in the middle of it.)

How about 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.

From the West Australian government’s police force comes this story of a team of government cops using tasers to haze and punish other cops. Because there’s nothing like hazing to reinforce a culture of hypermasculine violence, and nothing like electrical torture to brutalize your victims into unit cohesion:

Two senior West Australian police officers have been stood down and two others sidelined amid allegations they Tasered junior officers as part of an initiation ritual at the Rockingham Police Station south of Perth. . . .

It’s understood the unlawful practice had become part of subculture within a team of uniformed officers at the Rockingham Police Station. Tasers were being used as a punishment or initiation ritual. Officers, some of them senior, were drive stunning other staff with the guns delivering a shock without deploying the probes.

It’s believed there were multiple victims, some of them female officers, over a number of months.

— Sue Short, Australian Broadcasting Corporation (2010-07-14): Police investigate reports of taser initiation ritual

Russell Armstrong, a rep from the pigs’ union, has this to say:

We’re disappointed that it’s happened, it’s an isolated incident, but we are supporting the officers and we are cooperating with internal investigators.

After all, nothing says isolated incident like multiple victims and part of a subculture within a team of uniformed officers. Anyway, while the Incident is being Internally Investigated, Armstrong wants you to know that, when an investigation uncovers a gang of abusive government cops who get their jollies by torturing victims with high-voltate, paralyzingly painful electric shocks, he would certainly hope that [the Police Commissioner] doesn’t sack any police officer over this incident.

See also:

• GT 2007-11-20: Ho ho.