"When I heard that 9.7% of San Francisco voted for Trump, I was puzzled, because does San Francisco even have that many cops?
"Turns out, no: 26k Trump voters, 2,100 cops. So the rest of them must work for Peter Thiel and his Brownshirt Combinator."
I just started reading Robert Paxton's book.
This is one of the more recent videos Rich "Beebo" Russel liked on youtube before stealing a plane and crashing it into the Puget Sound in a blaze of glory.
I'm just now finding out about this guy. Wow. What an absolutely legendary mix of character, courage, talent, and despair. And unlike Peregrinus he didn't have to talk about it for four years to get his nerve up.
Plennie Lawrence Wingo (January 24, 1895 – October 2, 1993) walked backwards from Santa Monica, California to Istanbul, Turkey (about 13,000 km/8,000 miles) from April 15, 1931 to October 24, 1932 at the age of 36.
7% of Americans who do NOT believe in heaven DO believe in hell. Those Americans tend to be poor, uneducated, immigrant, and very religious (evangelical protestant).
A Quaker anarchist podcast
I was catching up on some Occupy Wall Street drama (because what else to do on a Monday morning in 2018?) and came across this essay by someone who wants leftists to be better at organizing or something. I liked it enough to read the whole thing.
On the origin of the word 'capitalist'
David S. D'Amato's collection of 19th-century individualist anarchist quotations.
A series of interviews with famous bloggers about blogging.
A look at the organic farm and ecovillage run by Gabriel of Urantia's group (who I've written about before: http://americancynic.net/log/2012/6/7/gabriel_of_urantia/)
It is encouraging that an intentional community with so much itnellectual baggage has been this successful.
Bryan Caplan's Anarchist Theory FAQ is interesting because he treats traditional anarchism and anarcho-capitalism as standing on equal ground.
A report on the blockade of the ICE field office in Centennial, CO.
Kapitalism101's Law of Value series (I've not read/watched all of these yet).
"Occupy Oakland began as a protest encampment at Frank H. Ogawa Plaza on October 10, 2011. Protestors renamed it Oscar Grant Plaza after a young man who was fatally shot by Bay Area Rapid Transit Police in 2009. The encampment was cleared out by multiple law enforcement agencies on October 25, 2011. The movement also helped spur the November 2, 2011 Oakland General Strike that shut down the Port of Oakland. Police again cleared the protest encampment at Frank Ogawa Plaza on November 14, 2011. Other protest encampments were created and subsequently dismantled by law enforcement. The last encampment at Snow Park was cleared on November 21, 2011."