Trespassers Will Not Necessarily Be Shot and Eaten
Feb 13Perhaps as agent of my karmic penalty for titling one of my recent anti-IP posts “Our Communist Future,” François Tremblay has a new post in which he argues that the case I make against intellectual property in my 1995 anti-IP article (an article that he says is “considered authoritative” – I’m not sure by whom) [...]
Agathos!
Feb 12The organization of American society is an interlocking system of semi-monopolies notoriously venal, an electorate notoriously unenlightened, misled by a mass media notoriously phony. — Paul Goodman Check out the Paul Goodman Essay Contest. (CHT Joel Schlosberg.)
Bear Becomes Mushroom; Trout Implicated
Feb 12So the picture on the left of a girl leaning against a bear is an image that appears on merchandise produced by independent artist Hidden Eloise; and the picture on the right of the same girl in the same pose, leaning against empty air in the vague vicinity of a giant mushroom, is an image [...]
Goons Get Greedier
Feb 11Check out this story, which reveals that the maximum fine for not answering the census has risen from $100 to $5000, but also notes that the higher amount can be charged only as a result of a trial. I continue to think that noncompliance with the census is likely to be a fairly safe form [...]
Help Noam Chomsky Find His Inner Anarchist
Feb 10A reader tipped me off that Noam Chomsky has agreed to answer the top-rated questions submitted via this reddit page; the reader suggested that I condense my “Chomsky’s Augustinian Anarchism” gripes into a question. So I did. Here’s my question for Chomsky: Although as an anarchist you favour a stateless society in the long run, [...]
Free Sex With Coupon
Feb 09Copenhagen Mayor Ritt Bjerregaard sent postcards to city hotels warning summit guests not to patronize Danish sex workers during the upcoming conference. Now, the prostitutes have struck back, offering free sex to anyone who produces one of the warnings. (Full story here; CHT BMB.) What does it say about me as a crusty cynic that [...]
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