The Toilet Zone
Nov 08Kevin Carson writes: One thing that large institutions seem to have in common is public restrooms with completely unusable toilet paper dispensers. The typical public restroom in a large organization of any kind has one of those Georgia Pacific monstrosities (or something similar), encased in a plastic housing that makes the toilet paper roll difficult [...]
Burkes Semi-serious Anarchism, Part 2
Nov 08[cross-posted at Liberty & Power] In a recent post I described the problem posed, for the prevailing interpretation of Burke’s Vindication of Natural Society as satirical, by similarly radical passages occurring in Burke’s nonsatirical writings. Most of the writings I cited in that post are on the web (and I provided the relevant links), but [...]
Red Prophet
Nov 08Jack Kirby once wrote a comic book story about the “face on Mars.” Okay. But he wrote it in 1958: Plus, don’t these “screaming ships,” from the same story, look a lot like Babylon 5’s screaming Shadow vessels (which as it happens were first dug up on Mars ….)?: Read the whole story.
Anarcho-Puffery!
Nov 08[cross-posted at Liberty & Power] Click here to see Doug Den Uyl’s blurb for the forthcoming anthology Anarchism/Minarchism that I edited with Tibor Machan. Click here to see an anonymous blurb for Aeon Skoble’s forthcoming book Deleting the State. Click here to see my own blurb for Crispin Sartwell’s forthcoming book Against the State. And [...]
Blitzkrieg Cops
Nov 08Thank God for that thin blue line that protects sleeping men and 82-year-old women from themselves by breaking into their houses and tasering the hell out of them. Now we can all feel a little safer. Ask yourself: if the outfit that did this had to compete for customers with outfits that didn’t do this, [...]
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