Today: last final of Spring semester. Picked up rent a car for weekend. Tomorrow: driving down to Montgomery to see Timon of Athens.

#MayDay in Seattle.

So I hope you’ve all fucked off work and burned a flag today in honor of “Loyalty Day.” Here’s a poetical reading for the occasion: “SEDITION.” Edmund Vance Cooke (1920) You cannot salt the eagle’s tail, Nor limit thought’s dominion; You cannot put ideas in jail; You can’t deport opinion. If any cause be dross and lies, Then drag it to the light; Out in the sunshine evil dies, But fattens on the night. You cannot make a truth untrue By dint of legal fiction; You cannot prison human view; You can’t convict conviction. For though by thumbscrew and by rack, By exile and by prison, Truth has been crushed and palled in black, Yet Truth has always risen. You cannot quell a vicious thought Except that thought be free; Gag it, and you will find it taught On every land and sea. Truth asks no favor for her blade Upon the field with Error, Nor are her converts ever made By threat of force and terror. You cannot salt the eagle’s tail, Nor limit thought’s dominion; You cannot put ideas in jail; You can’t deport opinion. http://ift.tt/1iPcxkD

I’m starting a fundraiser for the Molinari Institute’s project to make every issue from the full run of William Lloyd Garrison’s THE LIBERATOR available online for free at fair-use.org. Chip in to help us bring to the web a historic archive, the premier journal of radical Abolition and a vital resource for radical social movements in America.

The most shocking thing about what happened in Oklahoma is the fact that the State deliberately set out to poison a man to death, even though he no longer posed a threat to anybody. The death penalty is murder. This was murder by torture. #AbolishTheDeathPenalty

Happy May Day, y’all