To-night: William Goodell Frost, “Our Contemporary Ancestors in the Southern Mountains” (1899) and Horace Kephart, _Our Southern Highlanders_ (1913). #InternalColonialism

So hey since we’re talking riots lately, just in case you were wondering, the history of white people rioting in the US is actually really both a lot darker and a lot more positive and in general a lot more complicated and intense than college students rioting over sports events or pumpkin fests. http://ift.tt/1w2HN6O http://ift.tt/1sKObfd

“In my lifetime I’ve now seen anarchism referenced positively in Time magazine.” — William Gillis

Of course birth control pills should be available over the counter.

Tonight’s VRG: you know, when folks like Hess and Rothbard first started calling themselves “anarcho-capitalists”* they were kind of into some really weird stuff. * First known use: 1969.

I am kind of proud to have offered some technical assistance to the public burning of a Cato pocket Constitution after this weekend’s SFL shindig. #DFWRC14 #SoPerishAllCompromisesWithTyranny

This is happening in Guerrero. #WeDontNeedNoWater

“Ebola Czar.”

All presidents are War Presidents, even the “Progressive” presidents elected on antiwar votes. Every president is a warlord and a mass murderer, *because* he is president. Today, remember one of this president’s victims. He certainly never will. #AbolishThePresidency

What is the most beautiful fossil in the history of fossils? I have always been a dinosaur nerd, so I feel compelled to throw my votes behind the Berlin Archaeopteryx (#1) and the Protoceratops-Velociraptor Death Struggle (#2). If I were a better person I might well have the impartiality to go with Hallucigenia.