http://ift.tt/1jFcB4z Yes, they should.

Dear Platformist and/or Syndicalist: Signing your polemical note advancing your own strongly-held view against insurrectionary anarchists with, “Love, Platformists, Syndicalists, and the entire rest of the Working Class.” . . . is a rhetorical act of astonishing arrogance, and an immensely patronizing bit of rev-oh-loooshunerry ventriloquism in the name of a narrowly sectarian point. Even if your narrowly sectarian point is absolutely right-on (maybe it is; there’s plenty of cases where this has been true); even if you’ve correctly foreseen something that a lot of other working-class people will believe or want to say, your view is yours, and if you think your exact sentiments are guaranteed to be shared by the vast, monolithic and unanimous hive-mind of The Working Class as a whole, you’re probably wrong. Even if you were right that really everybody really thinks this, not just your political compas, then everybody ought to be allowed the chance to say so in their own voice. Have the courage, please, to speak only for yourself. Love, Charles W. Johnson A Solitary Individual

Best vegan pizza? 1. I recommend no imitation cheeze, of any kind. Some are better than others, but none of them are as good as a well-chosen set of vegetable toppings. 2. Extra sauce. 3. You generally need about 3-4 veg toppings to make it work. My own view is that at least one of them should be chunky, strong-flavored on its own and cover some surface area; for example, broccoli, onions, and sliced tomatoes, possibly toss in some bell peppers depending on mood. Consider a thin crust.

O.K., yes, of course, but, real talk, your pick for the best season of Babylon 5. No ties allowed. This is like torture for me but I am going to have to say Season 4. I would actually stick up for 1, but 4 wins out not only on the strength of the season but also for including the best episode of science-fiction television ever made.

Dear LazyWeb: Possibly stupid question about SimplePie, but I’m feeling kind of baffled and stupid right now. In class SimplePie_Enclosure, which is responsible for parsing rss:enclosure elements, Yahoo MediaRSS, etc. is there any reason why SimplePie_Enclosure::get_link() has to run the entirety of every URL through the urldecode() function? There must have been a reason for this, but it munges legitimate URLs. Code here: http://ift.tt/1eRpogQ

Of course they won’t. Once again, LAPD police are completely unaccountable for opening fire on innocent people. That is because they are police. Government police are defined by being unaccountable for their violence. That is what makes them police. #ACAB #AbolishThePolice

I prefer the Charlie Daniels Band of “Long-Haired Country Boy” to the Charlie Daniels Band of “Simple Man.” #ProbablySurprisesNobody

“A Funny Thing Happened On The Way To The Forum,” featuring 90 minutes of nearly non-stop misogynist gag-reels. The main piece of good news is, Zero Mostel and Buster Keaton. (Also, Michael Crawford is actually very funny.)

This is a model of constructive political engagement.

Lysander Spooner speaks in favor of abolishing the police in 1885.