Monthly Archives: December 2009

Let the Bloggregation Resume!

31st
Dec. × ’09
By Roderick

I’m pleased to see that the Left-Libertarian blog aggregator, out of commission for lo these many moons, has been resurrected.

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Piracy on the Amazon

31st
Dec. × ’09
By Roderick

Eight months ago, Kevin Carson called for a hack of Amazon’s Kindle. He got his wish this week, just in time for Christmas. (CHT Sheldon Richman.)

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Franklin on Humility

31st
Dec. × ’09
By Roderick

Benjamin Franklin writes in his autobiography: I cannot boast of much success in acquiring the reality of this virtue [= humility], but I had a good deal with regard to the appearance of it. I made it a rule to forbear all direct contradiction to the sentiments of others, and all positive assertion of my [...]

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Financial Saga Update

31st
Dec. × ’09
By Roderick

So the the latest in my financial saga is that my lawyer has gotten the Alabama Tax Mafia to agree to hold off on further action so long as I pay them $650 a month; so I should be free of them (well, except for the usual) by the spring of 2011. Perhaps worrisomely, I [...]

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Fugitive and Cloistered

31st
Dec. × ’09
By Roderick

I’m back from New York, which was fun (though, toward the end, unusually cold). Our IP session went well, and later that day Charles and I had a good time being interviewed by Darian Worden, Tennyson McCalla, and Bile of Thinking Liberty, and hanging out with them afterward. I also went with friends to see [...]

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Hark the Herald Angels

27th
Dec. × ’09
By Roderick

Greetings from New York! I can now announce the location of Tuesday’s 11:15 Molinari Symposium: it’s in the Herald meeting room (7th floor), New York Marriott Marquis, 1535 Broadway.

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