Las Vegas Anarchoblogs

Architecture Matters. Julian Sanchez, Cato Unbound (2010-08-16). In an astonishing New York Times op-ed last week, former homeland security advisor Richard Falkenrath greeted news of a technology ban announced by the rulers of the United Arab Emirates with “approval, admiration and perhaps even a touch of envy.” In the name of national security, the UAE — soon... (Linked Monday 2010-08-23.)

Tie Me to the Mast. Dorothy, Cat and Girl (2010-08-24). (Linked Tuesday 2010-08-24.)

replace "conversation" with "convention" and the comic still totally works, but it does raise some questions as to how you got yourself into that sticky wicket in the first place. Dinosaur Comics (2010-08-24). archive - contact - sweet merchandise - forum - adventure - search - about← previousAugust 24th, 2010nextAugust 24th, 2010: Alright, if you didn't nail having an excellent Monday, you can still have an excellent Tuesday. EVERYBODY, DON'T LET ME DOWN– Ryan (Linked Tuesday 2010-08-24.)

BUSH NOSTALGIA WATCH: Every president looks better as soon as. Jesse, The Perpetual Three-Dot Column (2010-08-24). BUSH NOSTALGIA WATCH: Every president looks better as soon as he's out of office, if only because we can stop worrying then that he'll be the one who finally blows everything up. But real nostalgia doesn't kick in until later, when even members of the other party start to cast... (Linked Tuesday 2010-08-24.)

Fannie and Freddie Want Their Allowance. Center for a Stateless Society (2010-08-24). But E. J. Dionne told me that a deregulated Wall Street caused the financial industry meltdown! (Linked Tuesday 2010-08-24.)

15th August 1889 – The Meeting of Emma Goldman & Alexander Berkman. Dorian, Dorian Cope presents On This Deity (2010-08-14).   Suffolk Street, NYC c. 1889   One hundred and twenty-one years ago today, a fateful and momentous meeting of two exceptional minds occurred in a café in New York City’s Lower East Side. Like Wordsworth and Coleridge, or John and Yoko, the reaction between the two was instant and... (Linked Monday 2010-08-16.)

Climb Every. Dorothy, Cat and Girl (2010-08-16). (Linked Tuesday 2010-08-17.)

08/16/10 PHD comic: 'LolGrads' PHD Comics (2010-08-17). Piled Higher & Deeper by Jorge Cham www.phdcomics.com title: "LolGrads" - originally published 8/16/2010 For the latest news in PHD Comics, CLICK HERE! (Linked Tuesday 2010-08-17.)

Taking Afghanistan seriously. admin, This Modern World (2010-08-17). (Linked Tuesday 2010-08-17.)

Bradley Manning’s Moral Clarity. Will Wilkinson, Will Wilkinson (2010-08-16). In case you haven’t seen it, here’s my latest column at The Week about Bradley Manning and Wikileaks. I’ve got to say that I’ve been pretty disappointed with the response to the Manning/Wikileaks affair from a pretty good number of libertarians. I think it’s obvious that Wikileaks screwed up pretty... (Linked Tuesday 2010-08-17.)

Unbundling Government, by Arnold Kling. EconLog (2010-06-29). This week is Secession Week at Let a Thousand Nations Bloom. I have no problems with the S word, but I also use the economic expression "unbundling." For example, Ed Glaeser writes, In a sense, the gulf between the political attitudes of New York City and Montana can be understood... (Linked Wednesday 2010-06-30.)

The Power to Tax is the Power to Destroy. Unqualified Offerings (2010-06-30). This is actually not primarily about taxes. Or about destroying. Or about Dave Weigel. But it is an interesting point from Jim Henley about what's new -- and what's not new -- in the ethos of journalistic bloggers, and why newspapers don't understand it. (Linked Wednesday 2010-06-30.)

apology not accepted. Dinosaur Comics (2010-06-30). "So hey did you guys hear about the G20 in Toronto last weekend? The event itself was kinda a non-event but the 1 billion dollars Canadians spent on security was kinda - insane? We built a big wall around the downtown core of the city, and the chief of police announced that there was a new secret law passed wherein anyone within 5 meters of this fence had to produce ID or be arrested. And then, after the event, he announced that he made the law up because it suited his purposes? HILARIOUS. Toronto police Chief Bill Blair, ladies and gentlemen." (Linked Wednesday 2010-06-30.)

eye of the storm 2010-06-30 11:05:51. Captain Capitulation, Anarchoblogs (2010-06-30). one thing that occurs watching the kagan hearings: i am very glad i have not lived her life. so when they ask her about memos she wrote in the clinton admin, strategizing on avoiding a ban on partial-birth abortion, she's all like 'i was working for a president who had... (Linked Wednesday 2010-06-30.)

Parking Lots. Dorothy, Cat and Girl (2010-06-30). (Linked Wednesday 2010-06-30.)

Porkymandias. Roderick, Austro-Athenian Empire (2010-07-01). And on the pedestal these words appear: My name is Robert C. Byrd, Senator of Senators: look on my works, ye mighty, and despair! Nothing beside remains: round the decay of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare, the lone and level sands stretch far away. (Linked Friday 2010-07-02.)

feministhulk: LIFE GOALS: 1) SMASH WHEREVER SMASH IS DUE 2) BECOME BFF WITH bell hooks AND BUTLER 3) HONOR HULK FEELINGS 4) EAT ORGANIC. Twitter / feministhulk (2010-06-24). feministhulk: LIFE GOALS: 1) SMASH WHEREVER SMASH IS DUE 2) BECOME BFF WITH bell hooks AND BUTLER 3) HONOR HULK FEELINGS 4) EAT ORGANIC (Linked Friday 2010-06-25.)

Comment on Puzzlement by Michael Wiebe. Michael Wiebe, Comments for Austro-Athenian Empire (2010-06-22). I meant “enforceable, positive obligation,” such as an enforceable obligation to feed one’s children, which Rothbard quite explicitly rejects. Suppose, for the sake of argument, that there is no enforceable obligation to feed one’s children, but only an unenforceable one. What exactly is the objection to this? Is it that,... (Linked Friday 2010-06-25.)

When Cops Visit. Roderick, Austro-Athenian Empire (2010-06-25). All you anarchists who criticise our heroic police officers – who are you going to call when you need your bedridden grandmother suffocated, tased, and lacerated? (Linked Friday 2010-06-25.)

Lost in Commercial Space. Dorothy, Cat and Girl (2010-06-24). (Linked Friday 2010-06-25.)

Oh! That Chekhov. Dorothy, Cat and Girl (2010-06-14). (Linked Tuesday 2010-06-15.)

Dedicated to "the mutualists of the world" Shawn P. Wilbur, Out of the Libertarian Labyrinth (2010-05-17). Charles T. Sprading's 1930 Mutual Service and Cooperation is available for download from Google Books. (Linked Wednesday 2010-05-26.)

Watch Out, Facebook. Jesse Walker: Reason Magazine articles and blog posts. (2010-05-26). "The business press may be filled with rhetoric about 'participatory media' and 'user-generated content,' but the country's most prominent Web 2.0 company treats its participants like a bunch of CompuServe subscribers circa 1994. ..." (Linked Wednesday 2010-05-26.)

Oh No! Sheldon Richman, Free Association (2010-05-23). Conservatives won't want to hear it, but the libertarian alternative to antidiscrimination laws is: COMMUNITY ORGANIZING!Atom (Linked Wednesday 2010-05-26.)

The Welfare State. Sheldon Richman, Free Association (2010-05-23). Despite what you may read at other libertarian sites, the welfare state is not the result of efforts by lazy poor people to enslave and live off the productive classes. Rather, it is the result of efforts by the political-social-corporate elite to subordinate and control the poor for a variety... (Linked Wednesday 2010-05-26.)

Free George Donnelly Handbill. DarianW, DarianWorden.com (2010-05-24). Thanks to ALLy James Tuttle for creating a solid handout in support of George Donnelly. Download the .pdf at LibertyActivism.info. (Linked Wednesday 2010-05-26.)

here's a sortof interesting piece of political/cultural. Captain Capitulation, eye of the storm (2010-05-13). here's a sortof interesting piece of political/cultural commentary by mark lilla. he frames the whole thing in terms of "radical individualism"="the libertarian mob," as against...well, what? obviously the basic contrast of individualism is to collectivism, but it's hard to sit there and squarely endorse that term: there are too many... (Linked Thursday 2010-05-27.)

Arrivals Lounge. Dorothy, Cat and Girl (2010-05-27). (Linked Thursday 2010-05-27.)

Gimme Your Best Just-World Play. cherylcline, der Blaustrumpf (2010-05-27). Come on.  I need it after reading this: Jiang Chun Geng is one of 15 elderly Chinese men and women whom Zhu is treating in his simple village clinic for what locals label “rotten leg disease.” A definitive diagnosis is no longer possible so many decades after the initial exposure... (Linked Thursday 2010-05-27.)

Without a Prayer. Daily Brickbats (2010-05-25). Established churches only, please. (Cont'd.) See also: GT 2009-05-27 (Linked Tuesday 2010-05-25.)

Plato’s Cave. Dorothy, Cat and Girl (2010-05-24). (Linked Tuesday 2010-05-25.)

Maddow Bashes Anarchism. Roderick, Austro-Athenian Empire (2010-05-25). Just saw Rachel Maddow explaining that Republicans have a secret hankering for anarchism (if only!), and that the spurious appeal of statelessness can be refuted by considering the nightmarish conditions in Mogadishu, capital of stateless Somalia (interesting that she just happens to pick the area of Somalia with the highest... (Linked Tuesday 2010-05-25.)

Rekers: A Sick Man in a Sick World. cherylcline, der Blaustrumpf (2010-05-25). When the news first broke about professional homophobe George Rekers hiring gay prostitutes with taxpayer money, I honestly didn’t think too much about it, as I didn’t know anything about his background (though it did reaffirm some of my stereotypes about men who sport ‘staches.)  I did brace myself for... (Linked Tuesday 2010-05-25.)