New studies suggest that the human fetus is incapable of feeling pain during the first six months. (CHT Der Leiter.)
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All Shall Have Prizes
This would take some research, but I think someone needs to set up a (regularly updated, alas) Memorial to the Victims of Nobel Peace Prize Laureates, listing all the deaths that can be laid at the doors of the recipients on this list.
The memorial would commemorate the victims of Theodore Roosevelt, Woodrow Wilson, Henry Kissinger, Menachem Begin, Yasser Arafat, Mikhail Gorbachëv, Barack Obama, the U.N. “Peacekeeping” Forces, and no doubt others.
Starry Night
I just watched the pre-titles teaser of the Doctor Who season finale. The final moment of it was … well, no spoilers here. It was good.
Now I have to go give an exam before I can watch the rest of it. Argh!
When Cops Visit
All you anarchists who criticise our heroic police officers – who are you going to call when you need your bedridden grandmother suffocated, tased, and lacerated?
A Couple of Points
I wonder who else caught the fact that when Amy in “Amy’s Choice” asks the Doctor (something like) “If you can’t save everyone, then what is the point of you?” this is a direct echo of the Eccleston episode “Dalek” when the Doctor asks the captured Dalek, “If you can’t kill, then what are you good for, what is the point of you?”
Machineries of Freedom
Two very good things have happened:
David Friedman’s The Machinery of Freedom, one of the most influential free-market anarchist works of the last 100 years, is now available online (in PDF format).
Kevin Carson’s latest book, The Homebrew Industrial Revolution, is now in print.