Well, this is a bummer: Las Vegas’s delightful Star Trek ride is closing.
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Random July 4th Roundup
Happy Independence Day! Celebrate the American Revolution! The one currently underway, I mean.
Meanwhile, check out this article about how easy it is for our immigration laws to turn a U.S. citizen into an undocumented alien overnight, and the Kafkaesque nightmare that awaits those attempting to undo the tangle.
In other news, the first comment in over two years has been added to the Mises blog post discussing the Kevin Carson JLS symposium. I link to it because otherwise no one will see it (I only know about it because I authored the original post and so receive automated updates). Those interested in the pros and cons of the labour theory of value, take a look.
Enemy Agents in the Empire
My blog is increasingly getting hacked with hidden spam ads; I have to delete them every few days, and Google is threatening to drop my blog from their search engine. Apparently this is a common problem with WordPress. Well, today I notice that my archive.php file is now misspelled arhcive.php, and starts with “Merhabba my friend” (misspelled Turkish!), but I’m not computer-savvy enough to know what to do without making it worse. Any advice?
Wakey Wakey
Who says there’s never a cop when you need one? Sometimes they’re everywhere.
Vis-à-Vis Visas
Dangerous criminal Martha Stewart’s being denied a visa to enter Britain is insane for the obvious reasons, but the part that puzzles me is: since when do American citizens need a visa to enter Britain? Is the reference to “visa” just a reporter’s glitch?
Reasonable Force
Parva spray was used to stop any confrontation and was necessary to protect the officers and any members of the public who were around at the time. Within the circumstances, we feel we used reasonable force.
– Police thug explaining why his gang assaulted an innocent man through his front door into his house.
Conical hat tip to Manuel Lora.