My first reaction to this campaign was a bit of umbrage on the part of lumping the many degrees of sexual harassment in with the many degrees of sexual assault. They aren’t the same. I shared that first reaction on Facebook in a couple of places and got some interesting discussion going. But as I thought about it some more, I realized what was going on here.
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Microsoft Corp. v. United States: Jeff Sessions Wants Open Borders, But Only for Police
In 2013, Microsoft refused to turn information from a customer’s email account over to law enforcement pursuant to a warrant in a narcotics investigation. The information, Microsoft noted, was stored on a server in Ireland. Ireland, as you may have learned in elementary school, is neither one of the fifty states nor a US territory. It’s a sovereign state with its own laws. US search warrants carry no weight there.
Helplessness Is Not a Virtue, Either
It still strikes me as odd when I see people expressing pride in the fact that they are not armed. As if that’s a virtue, or a sign of moral superiority. They’re basically saying, “I’m just so noble and awesome, because if armed thugs attack me or my family, I can’t do a damn thing about it!”
Very Different Kinds of Anarchists
If your vision of a stateless society involves ‘covenant communities,’ HOAs, lifetime employment contracts, private prisons, punitive executions, and “no shoes, no shirt, no service” signs enforced at gunpoint, we are not advocating the same thing.
POTUS and the Fantasy
It came to me with sickening suddenness that the misadventures of POTUS, all of them but now particularly, resemble the fantasy quest of a hormone-driven teenaged boy. It seems a world in which everything is viewed as a centerfold, and an opportunity to gain a prodigious rush.
Work on Your Dreams as If You’re Awake
The world is filled with people who dream of a day when they’ll be able to do a particular thing full-time, but there’s a common problem that plagues many of those who fall in this category: apart from what they say or put on their resume, their talent is a secret.
Cowardice is Not a Virtue
First and foremost, pushing a “legislative” solution always amounts to condoning a violent solution. “Laws” are not polite suggestions; they are threats of force. “Gun control,” while usually framed in vague, euphemistic terms by its proponents, is gun violence. It is politicians threatening to send men with guns after any mere peasant who possesses something that the masters say they are not allowed to possess.
Why Are You Surprised by Authoritarianism?
Most kids are conditioned almost from day one to obey arbitrary authority. No one attempts to explain or justify the source of the parent or teacher’s authority; no consent is sought, and no choice is offered.
Skills My Grandfather Taught Me
You’re a lucky person if you had a grandfather to help raise you. Grandparents can teach you things your own parents can’t. It’s a special gift for a kid to get the gift of 50 years of master from someone.
Libertarian Views on Two Books and a Movie
I have recently, as usual, been bingeing on various dramas and books that have some degree of voluntaryist content. Here are three examples that I would like to recommend to you, dear readers.