Posts tagged Left and Right

Friday Lazy Linking 3:00 pm / 12 February 2010 by Rad Geek, at Rad Geek People's Daily

  • 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.)

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Monday Lazy Linking 3:00 pm / 08 February 2010 by Rad Geek, at Rad Geek People's Daily

  • 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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Monday Lazy Linking 3:00 pm / 04 January 2010 by Rad Geek, at Rad Geek People's Daily

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Friday Lazy Linking 3:00 pm / 25 December 2009 by Rad Geek, at Rad Geek People's Daily

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Wednesday Lazy Linking 3:00 pm / 02 December 2009 by Rad Geek, at Rad Geek People's Daily

  • Libertariański Feminizm! Roderick, Austro-Athenian Empire (2009-11-30). I just received in the mail, kindly sent to me by Włodzimierz Gogłoza, a Polish libertarian magazine called MindFuck (pronounced, I assume, “Minndfootsk”) that includes translations into Polish of the libertarian feminist piece I wrote with Charles, Libertarian Feminism: Can This Marriage Be Saved?, as well as my blog post... (Linked Monday 2009-11-30.)
  • 2 more narcs taken off the street in corruption probe - Philadelphia Inquirer. "Thomas Tolstoy" - Google News (2009-11-30). In which democratic government ensures that government police are accountable to the people, rather than to the powerful and well-connected. '"It doesn't mean that they will be terminated, arrested or face any disciplinary action," DiLacqua said. "As the investigation is ongoing, some may be returned to full duty."' (Linked Monday 2009-11-30.)
  • so this morning in the tacoma cop-killer case, police were. Captain Capitulation, eye of the storm (2009-11-30). so this morning in the tacoma cop-killer case, police were reported to have surrounded a house, and to be trying to remove the suspect using "loudspeakers," "explosions," and "occasional gunshots." now he's on the loose? so what the hell were they blowing up and shooting at? (Linked Monday 2009-11-30.)
  • Bad Boys. Daily Brickbats (2009-11-30). In which an "elite" "anti-gang" unit within the Chicago city government's police force turns out to be nothing more than the baddest gang on the block. Specially Operating government cops used their police powers to conduct repeated traffic stops without cause, steal their victims' keys, storm their homes without warrants, and rob their victims of hundreds of thousands of dollars in cash and drugs. Along the way they kidnapped several people, beat the hell out of them, and at one point even endangered the life of a diabetic victim by refusing to let him have insulin until he told them where his stash of money was hidden. Four of these out-of-control hyperviolent extortionist thugs, who made off with hundreds of thousands of dollars each, and who personally participated in kidnapping, torturing and nearly murdering those who stood in their racket's way, will have all but one of the lesser charges against each of them dropped, and will spend six months in jail. All thanks to a special deal they cut with their fellow government employees at the District Attorney's office. (Linked Monday 2009-11-30.)
  • Easy Rider. Daily Brickbats (2009-11-30). All animals are equal, but some are more equal than others. (Linked Monday 2009-11-30.)
  • Bait and Switch. Dorothy, Cat and Girl (2009-12-01). (Linked Wednesday 2009-12-02.)

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