So apparently the IRS is accused of seizing sensitive medical records, including records about gynecological counseling, sexual and drug treatment, psychiatric counseling, etc. for over 10,000,000 people, basically none of whom have been accused of anything, all without a warrant or a subpoena. You know what the worst part of this story is?

The part about having an Internal Revenue Service, to surveill daily expenses and seize personal data, all in order to investigate and police tax payments. Seriously, there is no possible way to square that with basic civil liberties, and it ought to be abolished immediately, completely, and forever.

http://www.forbes.com/sites/scottgottlieb/2013/05/15/the-irs-raids-60-million-personal-medical-records/

(It’s “State Socialism and Anarchism: How Far They Agree, and Wherein They Differ,” but following convention for the M@ Zine Series, each pamphlet also has a sloganistic re-titled title, so.)

is folding booklets and listening to historical linguistics lectures.

is reading “A Discourse of Trade,” by the early free trader and land bank experimenter Nicholas Unless-Jesus-Christ-Had-Died-For-Thee-Thou-Hadst-Been-Damned Barebon. (Yes, really.)

Star Trek III: The Search for Spock

To-day Fair Use Repository: New page scans up for FREE SOCIETY Vol. IX (1902). Now available:

June 22, 1902 (IX.25, Whole No. 367): http://fair-use.org/free-society/issue/367 Includes “Why I Am an Expropriationist” by L.S. Bevington, “‘Real’ Socialists and Anarchists” by Interloper, and “Civilizing the Filipinos” by R.W.

September 28, 1902 (IX.39, Whole No. 381): http://fair-use.org/free-society/issue/381 Includes “Herding or Growth?” by Henry Addis, and “A Question of Practise” by George Pyburn.

October 26, 1902 (IX.43, Whole No. 385): http://fair-use.org/free-society/issue/385 Includes “An Anniversary” commemorating the execution of Leon Czolgosz, written by Kate Austin; “Socialism and Liberty” by A. LeRoy Loubal, and a review of J. William Lloyd’s “Wind-Harp Songs,” reviewed by Mary Hansen.

Good on Earth First! for doing this.

http://www.thenation.com/blog/174312/your-world-flat-call-detective-friedman#

Panel 4 is one of the greatest graphical expressions of the essential character of a human being in the history of graphical civilization.