Las Vegas Anarchoblogs

i just want to express my support for what julian assange is. Captain Capitulation, eye of the storm (2010-06-17). i just want to express my support for what julian assange is doing with wikileaks. listening to the msm, you'd think it was obvious that videos of america's heroes slaughtering civilians should be kept secret. um, why exactly? i guess i could see how some information should be kept secret, though... (Linked Saturday 2010-06-19.)

There is no libertarian case for restricted immigration. Less, Anarchy Without Bombs (2010-06-19). It is almost 30 years to the day since Libertarian Party Presidential Nominee Ed Clark set off a firestorm of criticism within the party for indicating that he didn’t think free immigration should be immediately adopted.  One of the strongest criticisms came in a post-mortem of that campaign by Mr.... (Linked Saturday 2010-06-19.)

Bobbing Along on the Beautiful Briny Sea. Roderick, Austro-Athenian Empire (2010-06-19). From the “you can’t make this stuff up” department: [BP CEO Tony] Hayward took a break from overseeing the energy giant’s efforts to contain the undersea leak so he could watch his 52-foot yacht “Bob” participate in the J. P. Morgan Asset Management Round the Island Race. If you put... (Linked Saturday 2010-06-19.)

The Machinery of Freedom now online! Less, Anarchy Without Bombs (2010-06-18). More than 30 years ago, the first edition of David Friedman’s The Machinery of Freedom was the book that first made me comfortable calling myself an anarchist. The second edition, from 1989, has been out of print for a while, but David has just put online a complete copy of... (Linked Saturday 2010-06-19.)

Homebrew Industrial Revolution: A Low-Overhead Manifesto. Kevin Carson, Mutualist Blog: Free Market Anti-Capitalism (2010-06-15). The Homebrew Industrial Revolution: A Low-Overhead Manifesto is now available in hard copy format. The eBook version is here. (Linked Saturday 2010-06-19.)

Three more officers fired - Burbank Leader. police excessive force - Google News (2010-06-18). Three more officers fired / Burbank Leader / All of the officers were fired for allegedly acting improperly or using excessive force. While some of the alleged misconduct occurred during the robbery ... (Linked Saturday 2010-06-19.)

Louis Armstrong death metal version of "What a Wonderful World" Mark Frauenfelder, Boing Boing (2010-06-16). (Thanks, Adam!) (Linked Sunday 2010-06-20.)

What We Read When We Don’t Read the Internet PRESENTS! Au Revoir, Pretty Horses; Or, Why I Don’t Read Man Books Any More. Tiger Beatdown (2010-06-20). "Some more telling characteristics of Manfiction: ... 2. Male characters cannot communicate with their sons, brothers, and fathers. Or anybody else, really; but they are particularly hampered in inter-man relationships (this is important to emphasize regularly, because the only men who are capable of talking in polysyllabic phrases to other men are gay, and the only thing less manly than writing thoughtfully about women is writing about gays. An inability to communicate is the literary equivalent of the empty seat between two dudes in a movie theater). Instead of communicating the men will drink a lot, commit random acts of violence, beat their sons or pets, and drive around in trucks without speaking. These men do not have daughters." (Linked Sunday 2010-06-20.)

Defend Red & Black Cafe. Roderick, Austro-Athenian Empire (2010-06-04). My friend William Gillis writes to me: For over a decade I’ve frequented The Red & Black Cafe in Portland – an IWW, explicitly anarchist, worker-owned coop – and over the years they’ve faced all the sort of police harassment and surveillance you’d expect for a venue catering to radical... (Linked Saturday 2010-06-05.)

My central air is finally fixed! Praise Jeebus! drunkenatheist, Drunkenatheist (2010-06-05). After a month and a half of fighting with our landlord (and sending off frantic emails to our realtor), the HVAC crew came out and cleaned our compression doo-dad.  Now, I think it might be possible to cut glass with my nipples. (I’ll refrain from letting loose with a “hallelujah”... (Linked Sunday 2010-06-06.)

Rand Paul Petition. Roderick, Austro-Athenian Empire (2010-06-06). If you’re interested in signing a petition asking Rand Paul to support Red & Black Café’s right to bar cops from their premises, click here. (I don’t know how thrilled the Café would be with Paul’s support – but I doubt they’re at much risk of getting it ….) (Linked Sunday 2010-06-06.)

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.)

Electoral Race. Roderick, Austro-Athenian Empire (2010-05-19). Just saw Rand Paul on Rachel Maddow’s show doing a not very good job of explaining his opposition to anti-discrimination laws. Paul did make a few good points – like the one about how the liberal case for forcibly desegregating private restaurants backfires by bolstering the conservative policy of forbidding... (Linked Thursday 2010-05-20.)

Defensive Driving. Daily Brickbats (2010-05-20). Cops are here to keep you safe. (Cont'd.) (Linked Thursday 2010-05-20.)

Fall Right, Swing Left. Roderick, Austro-Athenian Empire (2010-05-15). “I don’t try to make you believe something you don’t believe, but to make you do something you won’t do.” — Ludwig Wittgenstein “Over and over, you’re falling, and then catching yourself from falling. And this is how you can be walking and falling at the same time.” — Laurie... (Linked Saturday 2010-05-15.)

Stress, Labor & Play. rechelon, Human Iterations (2010-05-14). There’s a lot of talk in anarchist circles about abolishing work.  Some of it in line with the dream of a high-technology path to post-scarcity.  But a lot of it takes an alternative route and settles for simply building a ludic society — that is to say a culture that... (Linked Saturday 2010-05-15.)

Heartwarming marsupial of the week. Jill, I Blame The Patriarchy (2010-05-14). What a darling fellow! This gentle furry woodland creature comes around every night at 8 o’clock to frolic amid the rotting kitchen waste in my compost bin, at which point our nightly staring contest commences. He growls at me, inch-long fangs dripping with disease, for as long as I care... (Linked Saturday 2010-05-15.)

You're not giving me that option. An Act of State is an Act of War (2010-04-24). In matters of state, when an agreement cannot be reached, often the other person will say, “lets agree to disagree”. This is impossible. If the person you are talking to is in the same state as you (Phillipines, United States, etc.), and that person supports the state, then he is... (Linked Saturday 2010-05-15.)

Ambivalent Sexism. experimentaltheology.blogspot.com (2010-05-15). This is useful: "Ambivalent Sexism Theory, as articulated by Peter Glick and Susan Fisk, suggests that while sexism is a form of prejudice it is marked by a deep ambivalence. That is, sexism is a unique and particular sort of prejudice. Generally, we think of prejudice as being characterized by strong negative feelings (and stereotypes) directed at a despised group. And, of course, many attitudes toward women are overtly derogatory. Glick and Fisk call this hostile sexism." Which they distinguish from paternalistic or "benevolent" [sic] sexism. I'd just add that these are really two sides of the same coin, practiced by the same men towards different women, or the same woman in different contexts. The point is that the pedestal is always conditional, and the social carrot is very easily replaced with a social stick when a woman steps outside of the narrow requirements of the pedestalized role. (Linked Saturday 2010-05-15.)

INSTEAD OF A POST ABOUT EPISTEMIC CLOSURE: If I were ever to. Jesse, The Perpetual Three-Dot Column (2010-05-07). INSTEAD OF A POST ABOUT EPISTEMIC CLOSURE: If I were ever to join the big epistemic closure debate, the points I'd want to make would be:1. Ideological in-groups have always been able to construct cocoons in which their own favorite sources take precedence over the mainstream media. The Internet may... (Linked Saturday 2010-05-15.)

The Myth of the Menacing Militias. Jesse Walker, Jesse Walker: Reason Magazine articles and blog posts. (2010-05-05). Flash back to the end of March, when the authorities hauled in nine members of the Hutaree, a Christian paramilitary group, and charged them with plotting a mass assassination of police officers. The media quickly added the arrests to the ongoing narrative of "rising right-wing violence," with the Michigan-based militants... (Linked Saturday 2010-05-15.)

On Enewetak (from The Distributive Passions) Shawn P. Wilbur, Out of the Libertarian Labyrinth (2010-05-15). [This immediately follows the section I posted May 2. It originally appeared on the defunct Distributive Passions blog. Bradford Peck was the author of The World A Department Store, and prime mover, along with the Vroomans, in the cooperative movement in New England. Much of this has already taken another... (Linked Saturday 2010-05-15.)

Amant ou mari? Shawn P. Wilbur, Out of the Libertarian Labyrinth (2010-04-24). Proudhon (in)famously wrote, in What is Property?:On distingue dans la propriété : 1° la propriété pure et simple, le droit dominal, seigneurial sur la chose, ou, comme l'on dit, la nue propriété ; 2° la possession. « La possession, dit Duranton, est une chose de fait, et non de droit.... (Linked Sunday 2010-05-16.)

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 (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.)

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.)