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Pursuing Liberty

Articles showing the positive influence of action in the pursuit of Liberty.

Good As Gold

      By Mike Zigler from Liberty Watch Magazine

"A Southern Nevada businessman trumped the IRS in federal court by challenging America's dual monetary system. Las Vegas attorney Joel Hansen details the case."

http://www.liberty-watch.com/volume03/issue08/coverstory.php

When Awareness Is a Crime, and Other Lessons From Morton West

      By Arthur Silber from The Power of Narrative

"Szwarek knows 'that people are dying every day' -- which is the terrifying fact that our politicians and media try to prevent from ever reaching our consciousness. Szwarek was determined to make people aware of the horrors that take place every hour of every day, in the hope that those who have the power to do so would finally stop them. ... These students are hope. They are the future, if we are still fortunate enough to deserve one."

http://powerofnarrative.blogspot.com/2007/11/when-awareness-is-crime-and-other.html

John Edwards Takes on the War Party

      By Justin Raimondo from Antiwar.com

"After all, it's no secret who was plumbing for war for a solid decade and beating the drums ever louder after 9/11. This war didn't come about spontaneously; it wasn't an act of God or nature, like Hurricane Katrina. It was planned, hoped for, wished for, and carried out by a very definite – and relatively small – group of men and women who had (and have) the ear not only of the president but of the major Washington power players, with the nexus of their network centered in the vice president's office."

http://www.antiwar.com/justin/?articleid=11867

TWE interrupted

      By Tom Ender from Memory, Making, Meaning

"When I started creating a page featuring links to movie schedules and my movie reviews, one goal was to prompt more reading of my movie reviews, and perhaps also gain more referral fees from Amazon. However, another reason, which I probably did not discuss enough, involved demonstrating as widely as possible that “tools” already exist to popularize freedom with the general public."

http://blog.tomender.com/2007/11/09/twe-interrupted/

Life in Amerika

Articles depicting the negative impact of politics on the cause of Liberty.

Sham of a War – D.A.R.E. to Just Say No

      By Retta Fontana from Strike The Root

"In typical government arrogance, our own gaping inner city wounds, due entirely to government policy, are redacted in the press, while the U.S. government self-righteously exports 'democracy' to Iraq. ... Government leaves a big footprint wherever it goes, one no individual or even a private gang of hoodlums could hope to emulate. Don’t kill--government hates the competition."

http://www.strike-the-root.com/72/fontana/fontana6.html

You got served and protected.

      By Charles Johnson from Rad Geek People’s Daily

"If you’re baffled that cops could get away with these kind of outrages, it may help to remember that in a lot of American cities, there is no such thing as a civil police force anymore. What we have would be better described as thuggish paramilitary units occupying what they regard as hostile territory."

http://radgeek.com/gt/2007/11/09/you_got/

Dollar's Fall Collapses the American Empire; Bring Those 737 Overseas Military Bases Home!

      By Paul Craig Roberts from CounterPunch

"The macho super patriots who support the Bush regime still haven't caught on that US superpower status rests on the dollar being the reserve currency, not on a military unable to occupy Baghdad. If the dollar were not the world currency, the US would have to earn enough foreign currencies to pay for its 737 oversees bases, an impossibility considering America's $800 billion trade deficit."

http://www.counterpunch.org/roberts11072007.html

Bush Finally Tops Nixon -- In Unpopularity -- As Call for Iraq Pullout Hits New Peak

      By staff from Editor And Publisher

"For almost two years, President Bush has been threatening to unseat Richard M. Nixon as the most unpopular president in the history of the Gallup poll, and it finally happened this week. The latest USA TODAY/Gallup survey finds Bush with a 31% approval rating -- and for the first time ever in the polling history, 50% say they 'strongly disapprove' of a president."

http://www.editorandpublisher.com/eandp/news/article_display.jsp?vnu_content_id=1003668731

Ordered Liberty without the State

Some people say it's Anarchy, some say it's not possible. It is an interesting topic.

Sprachkritik: “Privatization”

      By Charles Johnson from Rad Geek People’s Daily

"The problem is that the oligarchs, the robber barons, and their hirelings dishonestly present these schemes — one and all of them involving massive government intervention and government plunder from ordinary working people — as if they were 'free market' reforms. And Klein and her comrades usually believe them; the worst sorts of robber baron state capitalism are routinely presented as if they were arguments against the free market, even though pervasive government monopoly, government regulation, government confiscation, government contracting, and government finance have nothing even remotely to do with free markets."

http://radgeek.com/gt/2007/11/08/sprachkritik_privatization/

The Goal Is Freedom: Ersatz School Choice

      By Sheldon Richman from Foundation for Economic Education

"All of this gets to the crux of the voucher issue. We can demonstrate that an unhampered private sector is more effective and efficient than government in whatever it does because it is entrepreneurial, unlike a bureaucracy. But that doesn't get at the fundamental issue -- which is this: government should not be in charge of educating our children."

http://www.fee.org/in_brief/default.asp?id=1694

One End in Sight

      By Jim Davies from Strike The Root

"NEIS might have concluded not so much that the Iraq war has been badly run, but that it should never have been run at all, that how Iraqis choose to live is no business of Americans, that oil cartels don't work long because it makes a lousy beverage, that government is not needed for 'defense' any more than it's needed for any other useful function in society, and that its persistent pursuit of a foreign policy (any foreign policy) inevitably endangers the very people it claims to protect. "

http://www.strike-the-root.com/72/davies/davies6.html

probably my favorite Frank & Ernest

      By BK Marcus from lowercase liberty

Great cartoon

http://bkmarcus.com/blog/2007/11/probably-my-favorite-frank-ernest

Spreading Decentralism

Articles demonstrating an increase in the dispersal of power.

The Ron Paul phenomenon

      By Glenn Greenwald from Salon

"While Barack Obama toys with the rhetoric of challenging conventional wisdom, Paul's campaign -- for better or worse -- actually does so, and does so in an extremely serious, thoughtful and coherent way. And there are a lot of people who, more than any specific policy positions, are hungry for a political movement which operates outside of our rotted political establishment and which fearlessly rejects its pieties, even if they disagree with some or even many of its particulars."

http://www.salon.com/opinion/greenwald/2007/11/06/paul/index.html

Remember, Remember This Fifth of November

      By Glen Allport from Strike The Root

"This is the decentralized, emergent power of free human action at work: while the pro-corporatist, pro-war, pro-torture, pro-IRS, pro-Federal Reserve, tyrant wannabe candidates struggle to generate citizen interest, the one candidate who actually supports the ideals of the American Revolution – who not only says so but who has a long record to back that up – is enjoying so much volunteer support that it dwarfs his official campaign. "

http://www.strike-the-root.com/72/allport/allport17.html

Poll: Opposition to Iraq war at high

      By staff from UPI

"A majority of those surveyed, 62 percent, oppose air strikes on Iran, while an even higher percentage, 73 percent, oppose a ground invasion, and 70 percent say they do not want any military action against Iran."

http://www.upi.com/NewsTrack/Top_News/2007/11/08/poll_opposition_to_iraq_war_at_high/8796/

Pakistan shakes off US shackles

      By M K Bhadrakumar from Asia Times Online

"[W]e knew only a day later that just as Bush was speaking, one of his staunchest allies in his pet global war was squashing democracy and freedom. The US doublespeak becomes all too apparent in the mildly reproachful comment over Musharraf's move, bordering on resignation, by the US spokesmen. It indicates that Washington's dealings with the Musharraf regime will continue and normal business will resume once the dust has settled down. "

http://www.atimes.com/atimes/South_Asia/IK06Df02.html

The New World Hegemon

Depictions of the coming Imperial power

The Latest Torture Twists & Turns

      By James Bovard from BOVARD

"To prevent detainees and former detainees from disclosing to their defense attorneys the specific extreme interrogation methods used against them, the Bush administration is using claims of 'state secrets.' A Justice Department spokeswoman asserted that letting a former Maryland resident tell his lawyer the methods he suffered would be 'inadequate to protect unique and potentially highly classified information that is vital to our country’s ability to fight terrorism.' Unfortunately, the Supreme Court appears to be swallowing this argument."

http://jimbovard.com/blog/2007/11/06/the-latest-torture-twists-turns/

Bush's old world disorder

      By Sidney Blumenthal from Salon

"Every aspect of Bush's foreign policy has now collapsed. Every dream of neoconservatism has become a nightmare. Every doctrine has turned to dust. The influence of the United States has reached a nadir, its lowest point since before World War II...."

http://www.salon.com/opinion/blumenthal/2007/11/08/musharraf_bush/

Mukasey Is (Much) Worse Than Gonzales

      By John Nichols from The Nation

"[E]verything about Mukasey's testimony suggested that he would as Attorney General be more of a threat to Constitutional governance than the inept and frequently inarticulate Gonzales. Mukasey gives every indication that he is as enthusiastic as was Gonzales about helping the president to bend and break they law. The scary thing is that Mukasey appears to be a good deal abler when it comes to cloaking lawlessness in a veneer of legal uncertainty."

http://www.thenation.com/blogs/thebeat?bid=1&pid=248702

Georgia: The Bloom Is Off the Rose

      By Justin Raimondo from Antiwar.com

"When real authoritarianism rears its head elsewhere in the former Soviet republics, however, we hear practically nothing from these people, and for a very simple reason: Saakashvili and his gang are 'pro-Western.' That is, they were installed in power by the Americans, who directed the roseate 'revolutionaries' from Washington, paid the 'revolutionaries' in US tax dollars, and continued to pour money into the resulting regime – in spite of numerous indications that Saakashvili and his party were no more 'democratic' or less thuggish than their post-communist predecessors."

http://www.antiwar.com/justin/?articleid=11878

Politics by Other Means

War, rumors of war, and politicians fomenting war.

The Barren, Deadly Wasteland that Is Now Our Life

      By Arthur Silber from The Power of Narrative

"The Republicans ... support criminal wars of aggression, in violation of the Nuremberg Principles. Moreover, the invasion and occupation of Iraq have unleashed a genocide that is ghastly and monstrous in its magnitude. The Republicans also proudly and repeatedly confirm their support for a dictatorial executive branch, indeed for the imposition of a full dictatorship here in the United States. The Republicans stake this criminal territory for themselves, they do so without apology, and they act accordingly. ... But in a psychological sense, I probably would have to say the Democrats (and certain of their apologists) are worse: to say you recognize evil to any extent at all, yet to fail to oppose it or, which is still more reprehensible, to act for its furtherance, consigns one to the lowest rung of Hell."

http://powerofnarrative.blogspot.com/2007/11/barren-deadly-wasteland-that-is-now-our.html

Bush's Favorite Lie

      By Robert Parry from Consortiumnews.com

"Bush was determined to invade Iraq and tried to get the U.N. Security Council to go along. However, France and most other members of the Security Council rebuffed Bush and sought more time for the inspectors. Then, in defiance of the U.N. – and in violation of the U.N. Charter which prohibits aggressive wars – Bush forced out the U.N. inspectors and launched his 'shock and awe' assault. After a bloody three-week campaign, U.S.-led forces toppled Hussein’s government, but found no WMD caches. Instead of admitting the obvious facts ... Bush rewrote the history. Starting at a White House press briefing on July 14, 2003, Bush began insisting that he had no choice but to invade Iraq because Hussein wouldn’t let the U.N. inspectors in."

http://www.consortiumnews.com/2007/110807.html

Ron Paul Revolution: the Return of Robert Rubin

      By Lila Rajiva from The Mind-Body Politic

"Aha. So Robert Rubin, Clinton’s Treasury Secretary (and before that, heavily involved with his campaign and head of his economic policy council), former Goldman head, then Citigroup honcho, part of the trio that “sached” Russia in the 1990s (Jeffrey Sachs, Larry Summers, and Rubin), second musketeer of the three who allegedly saved the world (the other two being Greenspan and Summers) - yes, that R obert Rubin is back at Citigroup - with another ex- Sachs CEO (Paulson) at Treasury. Now, we only need a Clinton in office to finish the pretty picture." [As Sunni says in her comment, “what a list.” I'm not really surprised, but still enjoy independent confirmation.]

http://mindbodypolitic.com/?p=534

The Manichean President

      By David Gordon from Ludwig von Mises Institute

"Because Bush and his cohorts view themselves as engaged in a total struggle against absolute evil, they endeavor to increase their power to the greatest extent possible. If one faces a totally evil foe, must one not respond with maximum force?"

http://www.mises.org/story/2736

Spontaneous Order

Articles showing decentralized successes.

The Dollar Crisis

      By Llewellyn H. Rockwell, Jr. from LewRockwell.com Blog

"Back in the 19th century, there were many people who wanted inflation: bankers, debtors, and the government. What a surprise! Who has an interest in sound money? Consumers, savers, and liberty-loving citizens. This is the essential conflict. Are we going to have a monetary regime rooted in robbery, or one rooted in honesty?"

http://www.lewrockwell.com/rockwell/reading-dollar-crisis.html

Infections, bacteria critical for healthy life

      By staff from Colorado State University

"Dr. Gerald Callahan, who studies bacteria and infectious diseases at Colorado State University, argues that all living things on earth must have infections to thrive, and society's challenge is to sort the good infections from the bad infections. People's love affair with anti-bacterial products is changing - and not necessarily for the better - how immune systems, gastrointestinal systems and even nervous systems develop and function."

http://newsinfo.colostate.edu/index.asp?url=news_item_display&news_item_id=606776204

Fighting rape with porn

      By J.D. Tuccille from Disloyal Opposition

"Kendall's paper isn't a substitute for a commitment to free speech as a matter of right, regardless of possible abuses of that right. But Kendall's findings do supply valuable ammunition for people looking for a pragmatic argument...."

http://www.tuccille.com/blog/2007/11/fighting-rape-with-porn.html

The Specter of Stagflation

      By David Saied from Ludwig von Mises Institute

"Like clockwork, and as projected by the few good economists who understand the trade cycle, the liquidation phase of the current cycle began — once again, due to a central-bank-induced credit crisis. And yet again the credit crisis began in year 7 of the cycle, after close to 6 years of economic expansion, that is, the artificially pushed money supply boom."

http://www.mises.org/story/2754

Nonspontaneous Disorder

Articles showing centrally planned disasters.

Two Kinds of Experts

      By Gary North from LewRockwell.com Blog

"To prepare yourself mentally and emotionally for this report, I strongly suggest that you spend a few minutes watching the video of a pair of British comedians who zero in on America's subprime mortgage crisis. They have got it, as the Brits say, spot-on.” [Definitely watch the YouTube video – it really does hit the bulls-eye, but then read Mr. North's essay too. Although I surely don't agree with Gary North on all issues, here his conclusion aptly explains the title.]

http://www.lewrockwell.com/north/north583.html

Jerome Alexander. 160 Degrees of Deviation

      By Kevin Carson from Mutualist Blog: Free Market Anti-Capitalism

"It's much more plausible, in my opinion, that every level in the management hierarchy, all the way up to the CEO and Board of Directors, has essentially the same tendency toward self-dealing at the expense of customers, workers and shareholders. Every rung in the hierarchy distorts the data flowing upward in order to pad its resources, inflate its performance, and deflect attacks on its perks and autonomy. The CEO does this on an organization-wide scale in order to inflate quarterly returns and fool the shareholders."

http://mutualist.blogspot.com/2007/11/jerome-alexander-160-degrees-of.html

Interview with Ted Butler

      By James Cook & Theodore Butler from Silver Seek

"What we have in silver is a material problem, not a money problem. Most problems we have in the world currently are money problems. The credit crisis, the housing situation, the dollar, even the gold short position are money problems. At some price and for some amount of money, these problems can be solved. Not so in silver."

http://news.silverseek.com/TedButler/1194370086.php

The Political Economy of Force-Feeding

      By Anthony de Jasay from Library of Economics and Liberty

"Except perhaps in the case of Finland where high expenditure goes hand in hand with Europe's best average scholarly performance, there is no significant correlation between spending and educational results. ... State schools fail not only to teach their conscripted pupils basic knowledge, but also fail to educate them to habits of regular work, discipline and civilised conduct. ... In one word, education as an obligation does not work, or at any rate does not work well enough to make it worth while."

http://www.econlib.org/library/Columns/y2007/Jasayforce.html

War Is The Health Of The State

War is the ultimate State intervention in society.

Veterans Day: In Memoriam

      By David R. Henderson from Antiwar.com

"War displays the essence of government. Government is a legal monopoly on the use of force, and governments typically exploit that monopoly to the limit that citizens, or other governments, allow. "

http://www.antiwar.com/henderson/?articleid=11853

The Obedience Culture, and the Death of the Mind -- and Toward a New World

      By Arthur Silber from The Power of Narrative

"The United States is now a fully militarized nation. This is true not only because we spend more on defense than all other countries combined, or because we maintain a global empire of bases -- all for the sole purpose of ensuring American global hegemony. That this goal is impossible of achievement is no deterrence to the ruling class: they are determined to rule not just the United States, but the world. They will not surrender this goal until catastrophe on an unprecedented scale convinces them they must. But the United States is fully militarized in a much deeper sense: it is now militarized psychologically and culturally."

http://powerofnarrative.blogspot.com/2007/11/obedience-culture-and-death-of-mind-and.html

Don't Enlist

      By Laurence M. Vance from LewRockwell.com Blog

"So why do thousands of people continue to join the military? In most cases, the decision is a financial one – just like the decision to sell crack or become a prostitute. But until joining the military receives the same stigma as those activities, enlistments will continue."

http://www.lewrockwell.com/vance/vance125.html

Institutionalizing War

      By Butler Shaffer from Blog at LewRockwell.com

"With the minds of most Americans now tuned in to how war was to become as permanent and integral a part of the state purpose and apparatus as government schools, Armistice Day was also required to undergo a transformation. It would be counterproductive to permit Americans to celebrate the end of wars - they might retain the outdated mindset that peace was a desired condition."

http://www.lewrockwell.com/blog/lewrw/archives/016781.html

Bits of History

The Past seen with a fresh look.

Happy Counterterrorism Day

      By Scott Horton from Harper's Magazine

"A government that uses fear as a tool to cling to power is an enemy to its own people. It will use fear to undermine the rights of the people and to aggrandize its power over them. It will promise to protect, and will claim that it will take rights and offer security in exchange. But this is a fool’s bargain. A people who will surrender their essential liberties for an illusory measure of security are not worthy of being free. The lesson of Guy Fawkes is this: It is not the People who should fear the Government, but rather the Government which should fear the People."

http://harpers.org/archive/2007/11/hbc-90001590

The Other Zapatista

      By Alvaro Vargas Llosa from The Independent Institute

"Mexico’s official history has always maintained that Zapata fought for a socialist revolution. He did not. ... Zapata genuinely wanted his people to own their land. He mistrusted the state: He even refused to sit in the presidential chair when, in 1914, he and Pancho Villa entered Mexico City, seemingly on the verge of total victory in their revolution."

http://www.independent.org/newsroom/article.asp?id=2063

The deceit behind global warming

      By Christopher Booker and Richard North from Telegraph

"[A] growing number of academics began to raise doubts about Mann and his graph. This culminated in 2003 with a devastating study by two Canadians showing how Mann had not only ignored most of the evidence before him but had used an algorithm that would produce a hockey stick graph whatever evidence was fed into the computer. When this was removed, the graph re-emerged just as it had looked before, showing the Middle Ages as hotter than today."

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/earth/main.jhtml;?xml=/earth/2007/11/04/eaclimate104.xml

Waterboarding in American History

      By William Loren Katz from CounterPunch

"An extensive record of its use by the United States land forces exists in the records of the invasion and occupation of the Philippines that began in 1898."

http://www.counterpunch.org/katz11082007.html

War and Peace

Articles showing the nature of War.

Woodstock May Have Saved Sen. McCain’s Life

      By Sheldon Richman from The Future of Freedom Foundation

"While McCain undoubtedly suffered beyond imagination, the full context of his situation needs to be maintained. In the eyes of the North Vietnamese — and by any objective standard — McCain was the aggressor. He was dropping bombs on their country — about 8,000 miles from his home. He and his defenders would respond that he was serving his country and protecting Americans’ freedom. He wasn’t. North Vietnam never attacked the American people. "

http://www.fff.org/comment/com0711b.asp

Not Everyone Wanted To Bomb Hiroshima

      By Leo Maley III from LewRockwell.com Blog

"Through his many public statements Tibbets reinforced the widely held notion that only untrustworthy revisionists or members of the irresponsible 1960s generation have criticized the atomic bombings. Tibbets was dead wrong. Contrary to conventional opinion today, many military leaders of the time – including six out of seven wartime five-star officers – criticized the use of the atomic bomb."

http://www.lewrockwell.com/orig6/maley2.html

The Man Who Bombed Hiroshima

      By Anthony Gregory from The Independent Institute

"People disagree on whether the nuking was a war crime. The 1946 Strategic Bombing Survey determined it had been unnecessary to the winning of the war. We know that Japan, demoralized from having dozens of cities obliterated in fire bombings, was extending peace feelers. 'The Japanese were ready to surrender,' said Dwight Eisenhower, who as a general during that war believed the atom bomb was 'completely unnecessary.' Admiral William D. Leahy, General Douglas McArthur, and many other high officials at the time agreed."

http://www.independent.org/newsroom/article.asp?id=2064

Why There Will be No Draft

      By Bob Wallace from UncleBob's Place

"I don't like the idea of my sitting in safety while some poor, deluded, not-very-bright working-class teenager who thinks he's a patriot, and is defending his country from evil, murderous maniacs, puts his life on the line for what he thinks is a good cause, but in reality is no cause at all."

http://uncabob.blogspot.com/2007/11/why-thee-will-be-no-draft.html

Great Individuals In History

Some people stand out from the crowd.

Anarchist Writer -- Albert Camus : Nov. 7, 1913

       From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

"Camus [came] to be associated with the French anarchist movement. ... Camus went on to write for anarchist publications such as Le Libertaire, La révolution Proletarienne and Solidaridad Obrera (the organ of the anarcho-syndicalist CNT). Camus also stood with the anarchists when they expressed support for the uprising of 1953 in East Germany. He again stood with the anarchists in 1956, first with the workers’ uprising in Poznan, Poland, and then later in the year with the Hungarian Revolution."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_Camus

Musician -- Ray Conniff : Nov. 6, 1916

      By Vera Conniff and Manfred Thoenicke from The Ray Conniff page

"In 1955, Ray got his first chance to try out his sure-fire theory of arranging. The lucky record was Don Cherry's 'Band Of Gold.' It became a runaway hit. This spurned a series of Conniff-arranged Columbia recording sessions, which resulted in many hit records. ... Ray, who [took pride in] being able to produce live in concert the same sound created on recordings, brought to the public the first live stereo concert ever to take place in the world."

http://www.rayconniff.info/bio/index.html

Actress -- Esther Rolle : Nov. 8, 1920

      By staff from The African American Registry

"[S]he was asked to audition for the role of the maid on Maude, a Norman Lear television show being spun off from All in the Family. After getting the role, she took it with the understanding that her character Florida Evans would not be a typical maid. Rolle proceeded to turn Evans into a popular character and in 1974 her character and its husband were spun off into the television series Good Times."

http://www.aaregistry.com/african_american_history/1262/Star_of_stage_and_screen_Esther_Rolle

Inventor -- Jack S. Kilby : Nov. 8, 1923

      By Jack S. Kilby from The Nobel Foundation

"Four decades of hindsight is perhaps a unique experience among those who have been awarded the Nobel Prize in Physics. As I noted in my lecture, there were various efforts to solve the electronic miniaturization problem at the time I invented the integrated circuit. Humankind eventually would have solved the matter, but I had the fortunate experience of being the first person with the right idea and the right resources available at the right time in history."

http://nobelprize.org/nobel_prizes/physics/laureates/2000/kilby-autobio.html

Culcha'

Books, Movies, TV, Media, Music, poetry, etc.

This movie classic is real horrorshow

      Reviewed by Wally Conger from out of step

"I was staggered then by A Clockwork Orange. And I was staggered again this past weekend, when I watched it for the first time in many years. The movie is, by turns, horrifying, edifying, and comedic. Even by today’s film standards, it rattles you."

http://wconger.blogspot.com/2007/11/this-movie-classic-is-real-horrorshow.html

UWA 42: Remember, remember

      By Warren Bluhm from Uncle Warren's Attic

"I turn the microphone over to a special guest host in order to get out a Fifth of November edition of Uncle Warren's Attic. I hope you enjoy the change of pace!"

http://unclewarrensattic.blogspot.com/2007/11/uwa-42-remember-remember.html

Frank Frazetta

      By Bob Wallace from The Sudden Curve

"Once he secured a reputation, movie studios started trying to lure him to work on animated movies. Most, however, would give him participation in name only—most of the creative control would be held by others. Finally in the early 1980s a movie deal was offered which would give him most creative control. Frazetta worked with animated movie producer Ralph Bakshi on the feature Fire and Ice released in 1983."

http://tonova.typepad.com/thesuddencurve/2007/11/frank-frazetta.html

From the Front Lines!

      By Joss [Whedon] from dollverse.com

"Writers can be replaced, as we are constantly reminded. But so can companies. Power is on the move, and though in this town it’s been hoarded by very few, there are other companies with newer ideas about how to make money off of – or possibly, wonderfully, with – the story-tellers."

http://www.dollverse.com/index.php/Latest/FROM-THE-FRONT-LINES.html

The lighter side

Humor, satire, cartoons, parodies, food, popular music and other things to amuse.

Mean Automakers Dash Nation's Hope For Flying Cars

      By staff from Onion News Network

"Onion News Network anchor Brandon Armstrong argues passionately for the existence of flying cars." [video w/audio]

http://www.theonion.com/content/node/69276

The Dinner Roll Model of Yale Economics

      By The Mogambo Guru (Richard Daughty) from The Daily Reckoning

"Mitigation? I read this, and then I look at how Mr. Shiller is a 'famous Yale university economist', and I think to myself that famous or not, Yale or not, this is a pretty stupid thing to say, because if the Federal Reserve takes 'aggressive actions', whatever 'mitigation' of the bust is achieved will only be by virtue of postponing the rest of the pain and suffering, which will be paid for by continually more inflation in prices. To think otherwise, as this famous-yet-laughable bonehead has done, is to get the stupid idea that there is such a thing as a partial free lunch! This guy is saying that there IS such a thing as a free lunch! Hahaha! Bigshot Yale economist! Hahahaha! Free lunch!"

http://www.dailyreckoning.com/Writers/Mogambo/DREssays/MG110507.html

Pat Robertson Says Giuliani Presidency Appears in Book of Revelation

      By Andy Borowitz from Borowitz Report

"In his statement today, however, the televangelist made it clear that 'in order for the Second Coming to occur, the world needs to end, and Rudy Giuliani is just the man for that job'."

http://www.borowitzreport.com/archive_rpt.asp?rec=6796

Think Fast Agency

      By Mark Fiore from MarkFiore.com

Flash animated cartoon video w/audio

http://www.markfiore.com/thinkfast_agency

Deep Thought

Scientific and scholarly studies, philosophical essays, in-depth and longer articles

An Interview With Matt Taibbi

      Interviewed by Marty Beckerman from Reason

"The former editor of the eXile—an irreverent English-language newspaper and website in post-Soviet Moscow—and a contributor to the New York Press, Taibbi’s politics are all over the map. ... He describes himself as 'more of a libertarian than anything else,' ... He opposes the Iraq War ... More than anything, the 37-year-old Taibbi believes that investing any emotion in the ideals of American democracy is 'digging for hope in a shit mountain'."

http://reason.com/news/show/123414.html

We are the Thought Police

      By Michael Massing from Salon

"Yet even amid this information glut, the public remains ill-informed about many key aspects of the war. This is due less to any restrictions imposed by the government, or to any official management of language or image, than to controls imposed by the public itself. Americans -- reluctant to confront certain raw realities of the war -- have placed strong filters and screens on the facts and images they receive. ... In his reflections on politics and language, Orwell operated on the assumption that people want to know the truth. Often, though, they don't."

http://www.salon.com/opinion/feature/2007/11/06/thought_police/

Yahoo and the risks of collaborating with the state

      By J.D. Tuccille from Disloyal Opposition

"I agree with Rep. Lantos that obedience to law doesn't absolve business people of moral culpability when they help government officials enforce dictates that violate individual rights. But I wonder if he embraces the full implications of his argument."

http://www.tuccille.com/blog/2007/11/yahoo-and-risks-of-collaborating-with.html

Proliferation of Climate Scepticism in Europe

      By Hans H.J. Labohm from TCS Daily

"Russian scientists are criticising very openly the AGW hypothesis. They do it with a frankness which - in this particular field - is still rare in the 'free world'. Usually scientists shroud their statements in clouds of caveats. Even the IPCC follows this tradition to a certain extent. But Russian climatologists do not. They simply state that a new little ice age is imminent. "

http://www.tcsdaily.com/article.aspx?id=110107A

Miscellany

Articles not easily classified

My Secret Life Exposed

      By Stefan Molyneux from Strike The Root

"I guess the time has come to finally come out of the closet. For the past 20 years, I've been living a double life. The strain of my deception has finally gotten to me, and I wish to officially come clean. I live a secret life as a black man."

http://www.strike-the-root.com/72/molyneux/molyneux3.html

Eating Well in a Time of “Food Security”

      By Sunni Maravillosa from Sunni and the Conspirators

"[H]ow does one get 'priced out of the food market'? Methinkest this is another example of a distortion of the concept of 'market' ... I seriously wonder if that phrasing was deliberately used in an effort to strengthen the idea that food is strictly a commodity to be purchased at the local grocery store or megachain—after being shunted through the regulatory mazes erected by the various food nannies...."

http://www.sunnimaravillosa.com/node/1235

“Leaners” and Polling Bias

      By Rolf Lindgren from LewRockwell.com Blog

"The greatest bias in traditional political polling is the way 'leaners' are counted. Leaners are people who say they are undecided when polled, but when pushed to pick someone they are leaning towards, they come up with a name, usually someone with strong name recognition. "

http://www.lewrockwell.com/orig8/lindgren1.html

Game-changer: Asus Eee PC a win for Intel and Linux, at Microsoft's expense

      By Jon Stokes from Ars Technica

"In sum, Linux is now the popular quarterback at the new mobile party, and Microsoft is just that kid who used to be cool back in grade school when tetherball was the hot game and he was king of the pole. If Microsoft wants to break back into the popular crowd, it's going to have to put on something a bit fresher than Windows Mobile 6, which feels like the operating system equivalent of feathered hair and tight-rolled jeans."

http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/
20071105-game-changer-asus-eee-pc-a-win-for-intel-and-linux-at-microsofts-expense.html

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