“I have a secret objection to the viewpoint expressed in your post. So in lieu of explaining what my objection actually is, here’s a series of assertions about theories of competition copied out of the Grundrisse.” http://radgeek.com/gt/2013/09/11/we-will/#comment-20130912204321 #WellImConvinced

http://www.oanow.com/news/political/article_668fb542-1b58-11e3-b63c-0019bb30f31a.html Mike Hubbard Vs. Freedom of Political Speech. Of course, in spite of what the OA News writes, nobody is actually trying to destroy the name “Mike Hubbard;” what they are trying to destroy is his good reputation. But a good reputation is not the private property of Rep. Mike Hubbard (R-Lee Co.). His reputation is just the sum total of other people’s opinions of him; and other people’s opinions belong to the people that have them, not to Hubbard. Any legal intimidation or legal action would be a shameful assault on freedom of speech by an immensely entitled politician, and Mike Hubbard, the bully who proposed it, ought to be ashamed of himself.

To-day @ Rad Geek People’s Daily [radgeek.com]” http://radgeek.com/gt/2013/09/11/we-will/ We Will: The Radical Possibilities of Freed-Market Social Activism (a clip from an interview with Jason Lee Byas and Grayson English; clipping courtesy of Alliance of the Libertarian Left DFW)

1. All war Presidents are war criminals. Every one of them, no exceptions. 2. All Presidents are War Presidents. Every one of them, no exceptions. #APAB

(BTW: home-made cheese & jalapeño tamales, with locally-grown jalapeños)

So Tasha Yar is to-day’s featured article on the front page of Wikipedia (\u003Chttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Main_Page>) which is a nice bit of recognition, even if it is about 1 / 1,450,200,012th of the recognition that she deserves.

Dude, seriously? Is this an entry in a contest for “The Utter Bankruptcy of Liberal Reformism, in Ten Words or Fewer?” “Amend ‘Anti-Protest Bill’ to Ensure First Amendment Protections” http://act.watchdog.net/petitions/963?share_ref=mPs4hhq2msc

To-day @ ALL Distro Anarchist Classics chapbook # 31. “Songs of Sorrow and Struggle,” a collection of 34 radical poems published between 1892 and 1902, by Miriam Daniell. http://distro.libertarianleft.org/for/anarchist-classics-series/miriam-daniell-songs-of-struggle-and-sorrow/ “This chapbook is a new selection of poetry by Miriam Daniell, edited by the ALL Distro. The 34 poems in this collection were gathered from two main sources: her prolific contrib­utions to Benjamin Tucker’s individualist paper Liberty during 1892; and a series of several more poems prepared for posthumous publication by her friends, which appeared in the Chicago anarchist paper Free Society during 1902. The Anarchist press of the late 19th and early 20th centuries published much more than ideological tracts, polemics and political analysis. In their newspapers, pamphlets, union halls, radical community schools and gatherings, Anarch­ists and labor radicals alike worked to build a broad, vibrant and lovingly crafted culture of creative solidarity and resistance. Theoreticians, workers, story­tellers and dreamers made car­toons, posters, poems, stories and labor songs. One of the most restless and, for a few years, one of the most prolific of these authors was Miriam Daniell (1860–1894), a strike leader in England and a prolific poet, writer and critic in the u.s. radical press.”

Of course it is not independent. Jesus. It is a panel run by the White House. You may as well run a story with the headline “Critics Unsure of the Independence of Medical Research on Tobacco Sponsored by Philip-Morris.”

For years, the United States government denied consenting patients the opportunity to try experimental AIDS treatment of their own free will; instead, they inflicted experimental AIDS treatments on foster children without even the most minimal protections for the informed consent of their human subjects. For science, you know.