Those luck few of you who have been on the receiving end of e-mail from me will recognize the following quote, as it is appended to 95% of my outgoing mail:

"My political opinions lean more and more to anarchy (philosophically understood, meaning abolition of control not whiskered men with bombs).... [T]he most improper job of any man, even saints ( Read more... )

All I ask is that, in the midst of a murderous world, we agree to reflect
on murder and to make a choice. After that, we can distinguish those
who accept the consequences of being murderers themselves or the
accomplices of murderers, and those who refuse to do so with all their
force and being. Since this terrible dividing line does actually exist ( Read more... )

from LRC:

The state is the embodiment of organized aggression. It is, after all, the legal institution that monopolizes the right to commit theft (taxation), kidnapping (mandatory attendance laws), slavery (conscription), and mass murder (war). It imprisons millions, loots trillions and slaughters civilians as a matter of course. Its powers cannot ( Read more... )

I went and volunteered at Boxcar Books yesterday for the yearly inventory, and, though I might not go so far as to say I regret it, I was certainly disappointed by the experience.  I can't figure out what the story is with these young anarchists here in Bloomington---for all I know, this problem is found everywhere, numerous exchanges in the 
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An hour or so ago, I caught the last few minutes of a report on Fox Noise Channel about the reaction in the Mission District neighborhood in San Francisco to the purchase of the State Armory by porn film/website production company kink.com.  If one were to listen to the report, and had no knowledge of Fox Noise Channel's politics, one might think ( Read more... )

Life During Wartime

A double agent: lost behind enemy lines... so thoroughly lost, indeed, the he has forgotten who and where he is; and what, if anything, he is or was to do here.

"Is the war over?" he wonders aloud to himself.  "Can I go home now?  Where is home, anyway?  Perhaps I am already there...."

Language fails him.  He is silent for days on ( Read more... )

A great many of you---considering the range of interests and knowledge of the people who read this journal---will probably be aware of this website already, but I learned of it just recently: http://theyesmen.org/.  Upon inspection, I found that I did, in fact, recognize a number of the actions in which they had engaged, and I recall being quite ( Read more... )

Or, the beards have all grown longer over night...

Reading his newest article over at lewrockwell.com, one would get the impression that Patrick J. Buchanan is an anti-war and anti-imperialist paleocon who is sick and tired of seeing the neocons use the military might of the United States to remake the world according to their own utopian vision.  ( Read more... )

I am sitting in my office.  In the living room, a Mormon missionary is discussing the Bible with my parents.  I have no interest in hearing what he has to say, nor do I have any desire to debate theology, spirituality, or morality---or interpretations thereof---with him.  I am sitting in my office listening to W. S. Burroughs read Naked Lunch.

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Picking my way through the thickets on wickipedia tonight, I followed a string of links from Anarchism in Spain to anarcho-capitalism to Murray Rothbard, a figure of no small interest and puzzlement to me.  I read about his association with Karl Hess, about whom I have written previously, though I cannot find the entry now---aahhh, here it is (Read more... )