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Article posted 10 May 2010 Monday Lazy Linking posted 2pm

Everybody Run, Uncle Grady Has a Gun. Roderick, Austro-Athenian Empire (2010-05-10). The following letter appeared in today's Opelika-Auburn News. (I've restored my original paragraphing, which was altered seemingly at random.) To the Editor: Bob Sanders wonders (May 8th) why we would fear Uncle Grady the tax assessor. Surely the answer is: because Uncle Grady's edicts are ultimately backed up by threats… (Linked Monday 2010-05-10.)
Reviewing Like It's 2007. rechelon, Human Iterations » Non-Aggression And The Goddamn Primmies (2010-05-10). Communism Reconstituted as Psychotherapy: The Coming Insurrection Everyone knows. It's really nothing new. Their attack on Green Capitalism is delicious, while their advocacy of "communes" is without substance, tacked on and arguably specious. There's a lot of language in it specific to the European intellectual scene. Honestly, it's a bit… (Linked Monday 2010-05-10.)

Article posted 21 April 2010 Wednesday Lazy Linking posted 2pm

I Must Have Missed It. Roderick, Austro-Athenian Empire (2010-04-20). Jon Stewart, just now: We've been given a false choice between tyranny and anarchy. Hey! When was I offered that choice? (Linked Wednesday 2010-04-21.)

Article posted 3 March 2010 Wednesday Lazy Linking posted 3pm

Welcome to Statelessness. Roderick, Austro-Athenian Empire (2010-03-01). Gary Chartier is offering an introductory online course on anarchism under the auspices of the Molinari Institute's Center for a Stateless Society. Check it out. (Linked Tuesday 2010-03-02.)
SWAT Team Endangers Child, Parents Charged With Child Endangerment. The Agitator (2010-03-02). Police are here to keep kids safe: “So smoking pot = ‘child endangerment.’ Storming a home with guns, then firing bullets into the family pets as a child looks on = necessary police procedures to ensure everyone's safety. Just so we’re clear.” (Linked Tuesday 2010-03-02.)
"Looters" and Food in an Emergency. Matthew Yglesias (2010-03-02). Disaster Statism Vs. Human Survival and Reclamation of Lost and Abandoned Property (Linked Tuesday 2010-03-02.)
NONVIOLENCE. A REVIEW OF MARK KURLANSKY'S 2006 BOOK. www.wendymcelroy.com (2010-03-02). NONVIOLENCE: A REVIEW OF MARK KURLANSKY'S 2006 BOOK BY THAT NAME By Jim Russell (Linked Tuesday 2010-03-02.)
HOUSE DEMOCRATS SUPPORT TORTURE. UNDERNEWS (2010-03-02). Keep on Hoping, y’all. (Linked Tuesday 2010-03-02.)
t r u t h o u t | Alexander Cockburn | The Bogus Crime Wave. www.truthout.org (2010-03-02). Siege Mentality vs. Empirical Reality (Sin Fronteras Edition): In spite of the constant shrill efforts by Anglo nationalists to cultivate a siege mentality, there actually is no empirical evidence of an immigrant crime wave. When you control for age and state of residence, and when you don’t count bogus victimless “offenses” which are directly related to immigration status, young Latin@ men are no more likely to commit violent crimes than young white men. If the undocumented population is significantly undercounted by the census (as many, including the nativist fear-mongers, would generally believe it to be), then the Latin@ crime rate is actually significantly lower than the white crime rate. The American Conservative, of all places (!), has the story. (Via the November Coalition.) (Linked Tuesday 2010-03-02.)
School district admits installing covert webcam activation software on student laptops, denies wrongdoing. Boing Boing (2010-03-02). In which Perpetual State of Supervision meets Stasi-statism: “The Superintendant of the Lower Merion School District — where parents have initiated a class action suit over the covert use of students’ laptops to surveil them in school and at home — has sent a letter to parents with more information about the spying. The school admits that there was spyware installed on students laptops that allowed for remote, covert activation of their webcams, … They have disabled the system for now and deny that it was misused.” Dude, seriously? Of course they were “misused.” The thing itself IS the misuse. (Linked Tuesday 2010-03-02.)
Nolan Klein: an innocent man who died of an untreated medical condition inside Nevada´s prison system. NPW, Nevada Prison Watch (2010-03-02). From the January 12 2010 Meeting of the Board of Prison Commissioners:Tonya Brown stated she had a private autopsy performed on Mr. Klein and passed out the updated death certificate to the Board. She stated had he been properly treated, he would still be alive today and the State of… (Linked Tuesday 2010-03-02.)

Article posted 12 February 2010 Friday Lazy Linking posted 3pm

Help Noam Chomsky Find His Inner Anarchist. Roderick, Austro-Athenian Empire (2010-02-10). A reader tipped me off that Noam Chomsky has agreed to answer the top-rated questions submitted via this reddit page; the reader suggested that I condense my "Chomsky's Augustinian Anarchism" gripes into a question. So I did. Here's my question for Chomsky: Although as an anarchist you favour a stateless… (Linked Wednesday 2010-02-10.)
DAVID T. BEITO: Rand Paul is No Libertarian. Liberty & Power: Group Blog (2010-02-10). “This first advertisement for his U.S. Senate campaign … is quite simply terrible. It not only panders to the darkest side of American conservatism but to the basest emotions of voters.” Like pappy, Ron’s boy Rand has chosen to emphasize absolutely the worst parts of his platform in his early campaign advertisements. Here, the current poster-boy for Chairman Ron’s Great Libertarian Electoral Revolution comes out for “strong national defense,” an immigration police state, and overseas legal black holes for “enemy combatants.” (Linked Wednesday 2010-02-10.)
How to split up the US. pwarden, PeteSearch (2010-02-06). As I've been digging deeper into the data I've gathered on 210 million public Facebook profiles, I've been fascinated by some of the patterns that have emerged. My latest visualization shows the information by location, with connections drawn between places that share friends. For example, a lot of people in… (Linked Wednesday 2010-02-10.)
Bear Becomes Mushroom; Trout Implicated. Roderick, Austro-Athenian Empire (2010-02-11). So the picture on the left of a girl leaning against a bear is an image that appears on merchandise produced by independent artist Hidden Eloise; and the picture on the right of the same girl in the same pose, leaning against empty air in the vague vicinity of a… (Linked Friday 2010-02-12.)

Article posted 8 February 2010 Monday Lazy Linking posted 3pm

Anarchists in Space. Roderick, Austro-Athenian Empire (2010-02-07). Paul Raven reviews Ursula K. Le Guin's classic novel The Dispossessed, a tale of the confrontation between an anarcho-syndicalist culture and a state-capitalist culture. (CHT François.) Though Le Guin's personal sympathies were with the anarchists, she doesn't stack the deck (unlike most political science fiction): the anarcho-syndicalist culture is actually… (Linked Monday 2010-02-08.)
Comment on Anarchists in Space by Roderick. Roderick, Comments for Austro-Athenian Empire (2010-02-08). Back in 1980, when Broach came out, perhaps Kolko's Triumph of Conservatism or Railroads and Regulation, and then follow it up with stuff from Left & Right and the early years of Libertarian Forum. If it were nowadays, Kevin Carson's books would obviously be essential. The crucial point is this:… (Linked Monday 2010-02-08.)

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