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So let’s pretend you’ve set up a strictly limited minimal state. Now once you give them a territorial monopoly of force, and conceded that they will be run by legal processes that the government itself directs, just who will make sure that a “libertarian” minimal state will stay limited and minimal? Of course: this is a job for Constitution Man, the world’s least effectual superhero!* http://ift.tt/1hYlrIq

X-Men: Days of Future Past.

Ain’t nothing wrong with a bit of language change. If it weren’t for language change, we wouldn’t have Shakespeare, or T.S. Eliot, or Cervantes, or García Marquez, or Toni Morrison, or you know, languages. #GlassesUsedToBeCalledSpectacles

George Grosz’s drawings for a 1928 performance of The Good Soldier Å vejk. http://ift.tt/1uceiMd (Via Shady Characters, of course because of the use of the § section symbol: \u003Chttp://www.shadycharacters.co.uk/2014/05/miscellany-48/>)

Why do we still have prisons? #Abolish

Why does anyone still have kings? http://ift.tt/1o0ZhuM

Good for Dr. Ore. People have a right to refuse fascist papers-please demands and they have a right to resist unjust arrests. http://ift.tt/1hn2iVW #WOC #StructuralRacism #AbolishThePolice “Ersula Ore, a professor of English, was walking in the middle of College Avenue near Fifth Street in Tempe on May 20 when an ASU police officer approached her, according to court documents. “Ore refused to provide her driver’s license after she was asked multiple times, ordered to present it, and warned she would be arrested if she failed to present her license, police said. “Ore [allegedly] resisted arrest by refusing to place her hands behind her back and instead [allegedly] wrapped her leg around the officer in an attempt to throw him off balance, according to the documents. . . .”

OK but is the best song on “Born This Way” 1. “Judas” or 2. “Americano”?

Thesis: X-Men: First Class was really pretty decent. But it would have been better, and character choices more appropriate, if the big bad of the film were Mister Sinister,* rather than Sebastian Shaw.

I heartily detest the “Outlook Web App” and all of its works.