For a giggle, check out this critique (CHT Brandon) of my recent immigration post, by a “John J. Ray, M.A., Ph.D.” (Yes, he’s one of those.) The best bit is when the guy infers my deranged mental state from my picture. Yes, this picture. René Allendy, move over!
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Wonder Woman, Maybe
I’ve heard nothing good about this series, and the costume material looks awful, but at least she looks like she might be an angry warrior. Lynda Carter’s version was always too sweet. We’ll see.
Jim Crow Returns to Alabama
This past Thursday the Alabama legislature put on their white hoods and enacted the harshest anti-immigrant regime in the country, one even more tyrannical than Arizona’s ethnic-cleansing laws.
As in Arizona, the new edict “allows police to arrest anyone suspected of being an illegal immigrant if the person is stopped for some other reason”; but it also “requir[es] schools to find out if students are in the country lawfully,” “requires all businesses to check the legal status of workers using a federal system called E-Verify,” “makes it a crime for landlords to knowingly rent to an illegal immigrant,” and in a flourish of pure petty malice, “mak[es] it a crime to knowingly give an illegal immigrant a ride.”
The old Jim Crow laws enforced discrimination based on the colour of a person’s skin; the new Jim Crow laws enforce discrimination on the basis of a person’s birth on the wrong side of an imaginary line. Though of course racist motivations are not exactly absent.
To make sure that racism and misogyny continue to march hand in hand, the legislature also passed an abortion ban on the same day. Well heck, if the state can treat immigrants as second-class persons, why can’t it do the same to women, and force them to use their bodies as incubators for unwanted fetuses?
If only we could get some Republicans in power! They’re for smaller government, you know.
Well, There’s Spam, Egg, Sausage, and Spam; That’s Not Got MUCH Spam In It
Kevin Carson, in the new Freeman, on European “socialism” versus American “capitalism”:
[S]ocial democracy treats privilege as normal and leaves it intact – then regulates it to make it bearable to the subordinate classes without altering its fundamental nature as privilege. But most of the positive aspects of the European model simply duplicate what could be achieved by dismantling privilege altogether.
(Celý piroh.)
In the same issue, see John Blundell on the Grimké sisters and Stephan Kinsella on IP. There’s other good stuff too.
What Did You Do Over Summer Break?
Monash undergraduate Amelia Fraser-McKelvie found the universe’s missing mass during hers.
ALL in Anarchy
The latest issue (a double issue: 68/69) of Anarchy magazine carries reviews by “Will B.” of two Southern Nevada ALL pamphlets: Charles Johnson’s “Women and the Invisible Fist” and Carol Moore’s “Woman vs. the Nation-State.”
Will B. tells us that ALL is “mutualist,” and that this is a synonym for “anarcho-capitalist”; but despite this double confusion he turns out to like Charles’ piece anyway. Carol’s, not so much. (I’ll have to reread Carol’s piece before deciding how fair the critique is.)