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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 19 February 2010 Friday Lazy Linking posted 3pm

Disney's Takedown Of Roger Ebert's Tribute To Gene Siskel. Techdirt (2010-02-17). Intellectual Monopoly Vs. Grieving Friends and Human Decency (cont’d) (Linked Wednesday 2010-02-17.)
We Won't Raid Medical Marijuana Producers . . . so Long as They Aren't Successful at It. And Don't Talk About It. The Agitator (2010-02-17). In which President Barack Obama’s DEA continues to launch assaults on medical marijuana producers. I’m sure he’ll get around to stopping that real soon now, perhaps shortly after he’s done withdrawing American troops from Iraq and closing Guantanamo. (Linked Wednesday 2010-02-17.)
Hier Ist Kein Warum. Roderick, Austro-Athenian Empire (2010-02-17). When Primo Levi, as a newly arrived prisoner at a Nazi concentration camp, reached for an icicle to quench his desperate thirst, a guard knocked the icicle out of his hand. To Levi's question "Warum?" ("Why?"), the guard replied with what was destined to become a famous quote: "Hier ist… (Linked Thursday 2010-02-18.)
COLIN WARD, RIP: My favorite left-anarchist writer, Colin Ward, Jesse, The Perpetual Three-Dot Column (2010-02-17). COLIN WARD, RIP: My favorite left-anarchist writer, Colin Ward, has passed away at age 85. Ward was the most practical radical I've ever read: Rather than sketching out utopian blueprints of a society without a state, he searched for empirical examples of everyday people organizing to solve their own problems…. (Linked Thursday 2010-02-18.)
American Psychiatric Association Pulls an #Obama on #Transgender People. Anarchoblogs in English (2010-02-18). The Genital Correctness Busybody Blowhard Bully Brigade (cont’d): Meet the new diagnosis, same as the old diagnosis (Linked Thursday 2010-02-18.)
SixthSense. ignorethecode.net (2010-02-18). Technological civilization is awesome. (Cont’d.) (Linked Thursday 2010-02-18.)
Anarchists For Total Government. Austro-Athenian Empire (2010-02-18). Anarcho-liberal-socialistic-fascialidocious! (Cont’d.) This time, from Glenn Beck. (Linked Thursday 2010-02-18.)
Shakesville: "Where are 1% of American adults?" shakespearessister.blogspot.com (2010-02-18). From Shakespeare’s Sister. Via David Gross at The Picket Line. “Five percent of the world’s population is American; twenty-five percent of the world’s prisoners are American. The United States incarcerates more of its citizens than any country in the history of the world.

The rate is three times that of Iran, six times that of China. More than one in a hundred adults in the United States is in prison. One in nine black men ages 20 to 34 is in prison.” Meanwhile, under threat of solitary confinement, the United States government’s military conscripts its millions of prison workers as a source of slave labor for the military supply chain: “It is illegal to bring into the United States any goods produced by forced labor or by prisoners, yet American prisoners make 100% of the military helmets, ammunition belts, bulletproof vests, ID tags as well some other items used by the US military.” (Linked Thursday 2010-02-18.)
diveintomark: @KuraFire Serving the masses is great. But serving the masses does not, a priori, require prohibiting unintended uses. Apple *chooses* to. Twitter / diveintomark (2010-02-03). diveintomark: @KuraFire Serving the masses is great. But serving the masses does not, a priori, require prohibiting unintended uses. Apple *chooses* to. (Linked Friday 2010-02-19.)

Article posted 17 February 2010 Wednesday Lazy Linking posted 3pm / revised 8pm 19 February 2010

All Your Mind Are Belong To Her. Austro-Athenian Empire (2010-02-15). In which a law professor attempts to use libel law in order to censor negative reviews of her work. You may have thought that your considered opinion of Dr. Calvo-Goller’s work is your own. But you forget yourself, Sir: your opinions of her work are in fact the exclusive property of Dr. Karin Calvo-Goller, JD. (Linked Monday 2010-02-15.)
Good Things: Ubuntu and Android. Alex Payne, al3x (2010-02-15). Good Things: Ubuntu and Android This is the second in a series of posts about good, nice things that I'm enjoying in the world of technology. The first post in the series was about Lenovo's ThinkPad X301 laptop, a solid alternative to the MacBook Air for those that don't mind… (Linked Monday 2010-02-15.)
Colin Ward, 1924–2010. Anarchoblogs in English (2010-02-16). R.I.P. Click through for a long quote from Ward’s Anarchy in Action, “Anarchy and a Plausible Future.” (Linked Tuesday 2010-02-16.)
New Proudhon Anthology Forthcoming. Anarchoblogs in English (2010-02-16). Congratulations to editor Iain McKay and sometime translator Shawn Wilbur. (Linked Tuesday 2010-02-16.)
Man sodomized with Taser will receive six-figure settlement. Photography is Not a Crime (2010-02-17). [Trigger warning.] “The settlement contained a provision that officers were making no admission to violating the plaintiff’s civil rights” by deliberately sodomizing him with an electrical torture device in order to secure “cooperation.” Meanwhile, the city government will send the bill for compensating the survivor to a bunch of innocent taxpayers who had absolutely nothing to do with this atrocity. (Linked Wednesday 2010-02-17.)
Texas cop arrested for "improper photography" Photography is Not a Crime (2010-02-17). Men in Uniform (Cont’d). Officer Brandon Gilroy, St. Edward’s University Police. Austin, Texas. (Linked Wednesday 2010-02-17.)
Seattle artist sues man for photographing public art work. Photography is Not a Crime (2010-02-17). Intellectual Protectionism Vs. Free Speech and the Progress of the Arts and Sciences. (Or, Mr. Galambos goes to Seattle.) In which Jack Mackie, professional leech in the name of the Arts, grabs a tax-funded handout from the Seattle city government to sculpt a series of generic dance steps on public sidewalks in view of God and everybody in Seattle, and then, unsatisfied with having been paid once (by nonconsenting taxpayers, no less), goes back to government to use Intellectual Monopoly law to sue anybody who dares to distribute photographs that include a glimpse of the work that he put out for free public display. Most recently, he is attempting to sue photographer Mike Hipple for as much as $60,000. No word yet on whether he plans to start suing folks in Seattle for dancing the Foxtrot. (Linked Wednesday 2010-02-17.)
Akron cop fighting suspension ends up with triple the time. Photography is Not a Crime (2010-02-17). I agree with most of the stuff that Miller says here — except for the claim that a 45 day vacation from his job is a “severe punishment” for a man who robbed a completely innocent woman of her property, abducted her by force and locked her in a cage for 18 hours even though she had not posed a threat to any living being or committed anything that even plausibly resembled a crime. If you or I did that, we’d be in prison for years. (Linked Wednesday 2010-02-17.)
The Blood Bank. Roderick, Austro-Athenian Empire (2010-02-16). (CHT François.) (Linked Wednesday 2010-02-17.)

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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