Monthly Archives: March 2008

It Came From the Garage

30th
Mar. × ’08
By Roderick

I’m not a fan of the automatically-dismissive approach to UFO sightings, but I have to say these pics don’t impress me at all. This thing looks like something assembled out of spare parts and hung on a wire. Okay, so if it really is where it appears to be in relation to the telephone pole, [...]

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Shia LaBeouf Is A “Genius”!

30th
Mar. × ’08
By Roderick

Apparently. New Indy IV teaser here.

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Shiny News

29th
Mar. × ’08
By Roderick

Another Firefly/Serenity comic book is on the way. No substitute for another movie or tv show, but we of the brown coats take what we can get.  (Conical hat tip to Norm Singleton.)

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Labour Contracts

29th
Mar. × ’08
By Roderick

[cross-posted at Liberty & Power] I don’t know anything about Robert Steinfeld’s book Coercion, Contract, and Free Labor in the Nineteenth Century except the following description, but it sounds interesting: This book presents a fundamental reassessment of the nature of wage labor in the nineteenth century, focusing on the use of sanctions to enforce wage [...]

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Left-Libertarian Explorations

28th
Mar. × ’08
By Roderick

Kevin Carson has written an excellent response to Paul Marks’ muddled critique of Kevin’s earlier essay Contract Feudalism. Also “Lysander’s Ghost” (I know who this is, but don’t know whether they want it made public) has an interesting article on debt here. With regard to the concerns raised in this latter article, I’ve previously argued [...]

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Free At Last! Free At Last!

28th
Mar. × ’08
By Roderick

So my former governor is out of prison, for now. Was Don Siegelman targeted by Karl Rove? It looks like it. But does that mean Siegelman was completely innocent? I’m inclined to doubt it. After all, this is the same guy who, when criticised for reappointing Auburn University’s most controversial trustee, replied: “But I had [...]

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