Monthly Archives: October 2007

I Feel Validated!

31st
Oct. × ’07

If you’re reading this via the LeftLibertarian.org aggregator, then you’ve missed four of my posts because my RSS feed wasn’t validated. Now it is and so they’re back, but buried below; there’s one on the alleged genetic basis of racial differences, one on Benjamin Tucker and Francis Tandy, and a couple on Randian views of [...]

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Doctor No and the Sex Pistols

31st
Oct. × ’07

So if you were watching the Tonight Show yesternight, you got to hear Ron Paul talking about Austrian economics, followed by Johnny Rotten singing “I am the Antichrist, I am the Anarchist …. Hi, Mr. Paul!” and the two shaking hands. Surreal! Hoping to see a pic of the handshake showing up online – a [...]

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Ayn Rand Institute Lets Us Read Some Rand!

30th
Oct. × ’07

People will be able to look up BREAKFAST and see that I did not advocate eating babies for breakfast. – Ayn Rand If I were running the Ayn Rand Institute – admittedly an unlikely turn of events – I’d make all of Rand’s writings available online. (So far the only major Rand work available online [...]

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More Tucker and Tandy Online

29th
Oct. × ’07

[cross-posted at Liberty & Power] A facsimile version of Tuckerite anarchist Francis Tandy’s Voluntary Socialism is now online at GoogleBooks. (Conical hat tip to Joel Schlosberg.) And Charles Johnson continues posting sections of Benjamin Tucker’s Instead of a Book. (Note: what Charles calls Part IV is what my edition calls Part V.)

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A Dark Faith

29th
Oct. × ’07

[cross-posted at Liberty & Power] Selwyn Duke thinks that those who question the biological basis of various psychological and behavioural differences among races are “practitioners of a dark faith” (pun intended?) incompatible with the teachings of science: It seems especially odd when you consider that most of these inquisitors [Duke’s term for the antiracist left] [...]

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An Alien Heat

28th
Oct. × ’07

A friend who lives in southern California sent me the following note on Monday: We evacuated this morning after less than two hours on the job because the Irvine fire was moving too close to the building. The air back home is tan and hazy. Strong winds shook our 3-story apartment building all night, but [...]

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