For Republicans, the moral of the San Bernardino shootings is clear: an excuse to ramp up state violence against Muslims and immigrants.
For Democrats, the moral of the San Bernardino shootings is equally clear: an excuse to ramp up state violence against gun owners and would-be gun owners.
Here’s a radical idea: when you see an act of mass aggression against the innocent, maybe don’t decide that the moral is to imitate it.
C4SS is running a GoFundMe to get a literature table at the International Students for Liberty Conference in February.
Now that’s an album cover:
Jessica Jones and Supergirl are tonally such different shows that it’s easy to miss the similarities between them; but once you do notice them, they turn out to be pretty pervasive. (Note: SPOILERS for both shows.)
You’ve got the superpowered protagonist who lost her parents and has recently lacked the confidence to make full use of her powers …
Their expressions really do sum up the difference between the shows.
… her closest confidant and foster sister …
… who has serious mom issues …
… a costume based on the comics but rejected by the tv character as too revealing …
… a dweeby admirer …
… and a studly love interest …
… whose former partner makes everything complicated …
… a snide and creepily obsessive archenemy with snappy dress sense …
… a high-powered professional who’s arrogant, self-centered, and ruthless, but still somehow sympathetic …
… but not sympathetic enough to prevent a vengeful woman’s trying to kill her …
… plus, finally, a government guy who’s a villain in the comics yet seems like an ally here, though he definitely has something to hide:
J’ezzika J’onzz, Martian Investigator
Last weekend I was at the SFL Oklahoma Regional. This was, I believe, the first SFL Regional to be specifically focused on anarchism. I spoke about the “final arbiter” objection; here are my powerpoints.
This was also, I think, the largest concentration of left-libertarians at any conference I’ve been to – so it was great to catch up with old friends and meet new ones. Here’s the main group photo from the conference:
And here’s the photo of just the left-libertarians:
We are everywhere, we are Hydra.
Oh, in other news, I’ve got two more columns up in my Libertarianism.org series on ancient Greece: one on public-choice aspects of Athenian law and one on political ideas in Greek tragedy.
