Star Trek: Into Darkness.

Looks like he’s being held on a vacuous detained-by-will-of-the-cop charge — in this case, “assault on a federal officer” — for getting himself shoved by a Federal Officer and then grabbing the arm of the dude who was physically attacking him.

John Beverley Robinson, ECONOMICS OF LIBERTY (1916). http://archive.org/details/economicsofliber00robi

just found the right DON’T PANIC wallpaper for my tablet.

Homemade blackberry jelly. From wild blackberries picked across the street from our apartment.

So apparently the IRS is accused of seizing sensitive medical records, including records about gynecological counseling, sexual and drug treatment, psychiatric counseling, etc. for over 10,000,000 people, basically none of whom have been accused of anything, all without a warrant or a subpoena. You know what the worst part of this story is? The part about having an Internal Revenue Service, to surveill daily expenses and seize personal data, all in order to investigate and police tax payments. Seriously, there is no possible way to square that with basic civil liberties, and it ought to be abolished immediately, completely, and forever. http://www.forbes.com/sites/scottgottlieb/2013/05/15/the-irs-raids-60-million-personal-medical-records/

(It’s “State Socialism and Anarchism: How Far They Agree, and Wherein They Differ,” but following convention for the M@ Zine Series, each pamphlet also has a sloganistic re-titled title, so.)

is folding booklets and listening to historical linguistics lectures.

is reading “A Discourse of Trade,” by the early free trader and land bank experimenter Nicholas Unless-Jesus-Christ-Had-Died-For-Thee-Thou-Hadst-Been-Damned Barebon. (Yes, really.)

Star Trek III: The Search for Spock