“We Need Better People In Power!”
Mar 28How do you avoid this kind of nightmare scenario? The Dallas Police Chief’s only answer was “to hire people with common sense and good people skills.” No. The answer is to restore equality of rights between police officers and ordinary people. As long as one group of people has rights another group doesn’t, there’s no [...]
S.D. & N.O. Trip Pics
Mar 28I never blogged about my trip to San Diego two months ago, but I did take lots of photos with my new digital camera. You can see them here. (Warning: unless you have a spiffy-fast connection these pages take a long time to load.) You can also see a pic from my trip to New [...]
Safety For the Kiddies … Oh Yeah, and For the Plutocracy
Mar 28Check out Kevin Carson’s latest C4SS editorial, Cost-Plus Markup and Mandatory Overhead, for yet another example of how legislation supposedly designed to protect the little guy from predatory big business in fact does just the opposite.
Thomas Knapp named News Analyst at C4SS
Mar 28FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Veteran libertarian activist and internet news publisher becomes second C4SS paid staff member. AUBURN, ALABAMA – March 20, 2009 – Center for a Stateless Society – Prominent libertarian activist and news publisher Thomas Knapp has joined the Center for a Stateless Society as the Center’s second paid part-time staff member. In his [...]
The Bronze Plain
Mar 27I just saw an ad for a 1999 production of David Copperfield (the Dickens waif, not the stage magician or the anarcho-syndicalist assassin – oops, you’re not supposed to know about the anarcho-syndicalist assassin), starring a very young Daniel Radcliffe. I was amused to see Maggie Smith (Prof. McGonagall) as David’s Aunt and Imelda Staunton [...]
Making the Grade
Mar 25There’s a famous story about Fred Smith at Yale submitting for class a business plan for what would one day be Federal Express, and getting it back with a C and a comment from the professor: “The concept is interesting and well-formed, but in order to earn better than a ‘C’, the idea must be [...]
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