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The Curious Case Of Chelsea Manning’s Hormone Therapy
Editor’s Note: This post was co-authored with Sandra Sanchez of The Individualist Feminist, where it originally appeared. Wanna know more about Sandra? Check out her concert photography! After being...
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Friday Fun: Oval Office Sociopathy
Courtesy of those hilarious American Extremists at Vast Left-Wing Conspiracy:
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Criminals With Protection Of The Law
Punk rockers Anti-Flag have some choice words for those that would occupy the office of the presidency in “Turncoat”, the first cut off their 2003 album The Terror State. Check out the lyrics:...
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Libertarians: Stop Cozying Up To The Political Right
This is written in haphazard haste, so deal with it. But I wanted to underscore a couple of points from a great blogpost (hat tip: Cathy) that I don’t necessarily agree with in it’s entirety (but what...
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Tennessee’s Meth Problem
Here is a letter to the Tennessean in response to their editorial on meth: Tennessee’s meth problem is directly correlated to the policy of prohibition and the futility of the drug war. Outlawing...
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Eleven Years of the Iraq War
Jonathan Carp at C4SS offers up a solid retrospective: If you’re an American, you’d be forgiven for thinking the war in Iraq was over. After all, Barack Obama, after being thwarted in his desperate...
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Targeting Cold Medicine is No Cure For Tennessee’s Meth Addiction
Tennessee currently holds the dubious honor of being the second biggest meth state in the country, with 1,545 reported incidents in 2013. To combat the problem, Gov. Bill Haslam is pushing a bill in...
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Smells Like Mean Spirits: Tennessee’s Crony Whiskey Laws
Adult beverage fans are undoubtedly aware of the craft brewing and distilling revivals that swept the U.S. in recent years. The craft movement is understandably popular since it provides an influx of...
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Study of a Lady
Our good friend Jon Preston created a video montage of his original paintings called “Study of a Lady” set to the song “Golden” by Paper! For those in need of a reminder, Paper is the moniker of Avett...
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Standing with the Rank-N-File, Marching with the Underground
Here’s another gem from Anti-Flag’s 2003 release The Terror State, “Rank-N-File” I’m standing with the rank-n-file, I’m marching with the underground, Our black hearts worn on our sleeves! Let my...
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A Bigger Tax Bill For Google Helps Neither People, Nor Profits
It’s not uncommon to hear populist cries for companies operating under foreign subsidiaries to pay their “share” in taxes or even repatriate assets. What’s extremely rare, however, is a company’s own...
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Feel Good Hit Of The Summer
Well it’s officially the first day of summer! Let’s celebrate with the Queens Of The Stone Age tune “Feel Good Hit Of The Summer” off their 2000 sophomore release Rated R. The lyrics are quite concise:...
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You Had One Job To Do
After three months, we’re long overdue for a post in this space. Here goes… Kevin Carson has a great piece up at C4SS on the United Nations: The UN’s stated mission is to prevent aggression; yet it...
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MarseeMarci on Craig and Radar vs Wolf
During our fall tour we played Las Vegas, where I used to live for about four and a half years during 2006-2010. I hadn’t been back since, so it was great to return and see some friendly faces! It also...
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Tales From The Road: “Slut” Shaming and Catcalling
“I am still as stupid as anyone, but I know my mistakes.” – Propagandhi I play bass and sing vocal harmonies in a rock band, which involves extensive travel and puts me in contact with all sorts of...
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Like your health plan? Go fuck yourself!
If you’re like me and don’t rely on the employer mandated monopoly route of obtaining health insurance, perhaps you’ve had a similar experience. This morning I received an email from my current...
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Open letter to progressives… or whatever liberals aren’t ashamed of calling...
Dear Not Conservatives, You motherfuckers. You really fucked this shit up, didn’t you? You’ve forgotten what it means to be liberal. The truth is, it’s not you’re fault. Its actual definition is so...
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Cuban Anarchist on The Other Enemies of the Revolution
This is a great read by Cuban anarchist Jimmy Roque Martínez in the Havana Times: Elio Delgado’s post, “The Enemies of the Revolution,” left me surprised at the ingenuousness and blindness of the...
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Prostitution: When Feminists Become Patriarchs with Lady Parts
Actress and “Feminist” Lena Dunham “Across 110th Street a pimp’s trying to catch a woman that’s weak.” –Bobby Womack Lena Dunham’s crusade against Amnesty International’s push to decriminalize sex work...
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Toning it Down: Guitar Amps are not like Markets
“Forget it, Donny, you’re out of your element!” –Walter Sobchak I’m having difficulty with Jason Brennan’s attempt to make guitar amps analogous with markets. This is what happens when academics step...
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Flashback Friday: Craig in 2008
We need a new post up in this space to usher in a new month… or it’s just a good enough excuse for a vain stroll down memory lane. Yeah, something like that. These photos were taken in 2008 by Fred...
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The Drone Papers at The Intercept
The Intercept has obtained a cache of secret documents detailing the inner workings of the U.S. military’s assassination program in Afghanistan, Yemen, and Somalia. The documents, provided by a...
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Robby Soave, Reason Magazine, White Privilege, and PCU
“Yeah, that’s what you say. But it’s how you carry yourself.” –Felicia ‘Snoop’ Pearson In 1994 an underrated movie called “PCU” was released. PCU is an acronym for both Port Chester University and...
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Rad Geek on The Self-Confidence Argument for Philosophical Anarchism
Charles W. Johnson via Rad Geek I’m usually stoked when I see Rad Geek in my reader. Charles W. Johnson does’t blog too often, but he’s one of my favorite anarchist intellectuals around. You might...
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Kevin Carson on Vulgar Libertarian-splaining to the Poor
Here we go again. More vulgar libertarian drivel. This time it’s from the Future of Freedom Foundation — aimed at the poor with the general disposition of how amazing their lives are because of...
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Grant Mincy’s Wish for Peace in the New Year
I saw this at antiwar.com and wanted to share an excerpt, but the entire post is worth reading. War is made possible by systems of power and domination. This is true of the violent war-making regimes...
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UnSlut is Now in Bookstores!
UnSlut Project founder Emily Lindin‘s diary and memoir officially hit bookstores today. Join the fight against the dangerous hypocrisy of “slut” shaming and sexual bullying in our schools, communities,...
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Hunter S. Thompson’s Breakfast of Champions
I really dig breakfast food and the work of Hunter S. Thompson, so this is kind of a perfect storm for me. The excerpt is part of a letter that was included in his book The Great Shark Hunt. Breakfast...
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I Choose Business Ethics
“Some people are so far behind in the race that they actually believe they’re leading.” –Corrado ‘Junior’ Soprano Georgetown philosopher and BHL blogger Jason Brennan is entrenched in a seemingly...
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Celebrating 20 Years of Superdrag’s “Regretfully Yours”
Twenty years ago today the Knoxville, TN based rock outfit Superdrag released their debut full-length album Regretfully Yours on Elektra Records. This is just one of many classic albums to come to...
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Nashville Feminists Call for TN State Rep. Jeremy Durham to Resign
In January three female interns revealed to the Tennessean that then-House Majority Whip Jeremy Durham (Franklin) sent them inappropriate and harassing text messages, even asking for photos in some...
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Plaques for Hacks: Robby and the SFL Soave-Suckers
“…cuz I’m doing real work!” –Leander Sydnor About five months ago I issued a warning to the so-called “liberty movement” (if you haven’t read my initial warning on the subject it might help for...
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Celebrating 20 Years of Propagandhi’s “Less Talk, More Rock”
How do you top (or at least match) the greatest punk album ever, How To Clean Everything, that you yourself released in 1993 as your debut to the world? If you’re Propagandhi… easily! Maybe there’s...
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It’s Caturday!
Well it’s about that time for another installment of Caturday. Here’s my friend Marci’s soon to be two year old baby girl Twiggy! Caturday archive
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Happy Birthday George Orwell
My favorite work of fiction is easily Orwell’s Animal Farm. I find it more relevant to what’s going on today than 1984. For instance, we’ve become a sociopathic nation that arbitrarily remakes the law...
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Artificial Inputs
Kevin Carson has another great piece up (shock) at C4SS: Now we can add border militarization to America’s list of “moral equivalents of war” — all of which involve tightening state control over the...
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To Become The Shape In Your Doorway
Yeah yeah yeah. We know. Blogging has been slow of late. In all fairness, we are quite up front about our space cadet-like nature. Deal with it. So this doesn’t really have anything to do with...
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Lazy Sunday: Still Sitting There With Your Legs Crossed
Time for another installment of “this doesn’t have anything to do with anything” music – except that I love it. In 2009, Jimmy Eat World embarked on a limited ten city tour in honor of the ten year...
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Never Felt Such A Pull Before: Nada Surf on Polyamroy
From Nada Surf’s sixth full-length studio album The Stars Are Indifferent To Astronomy (2012), I give you the music video for my favorite track on the record, “Jules and Jim” It gently alludes to the...
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In the Before Time, the Long Long Ago: Your Humble Spatial Cadets
There is actually evidence that we used to be kinda sorta cute way back when! I’m on the left, Brad’s on the right. It’s our new, yet old, profile picture: Image via Mom and Dad!
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Ghostbusters on Private Sector: “They Expect Results”
Starring Dan Aykroyd as Dr. Ray Stantz: “Personally I like the university. They gave us money and facilities. We didn’t have to produce anything. You’ve never been out of college. You don’t know what...
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Nada Surf on Rape Culture: “Robot”
From Nada Surf’s second full length album The Proximity Effect (1998), “Robot” tells the tale of normalized rape culture in the party scene: You’re just walking ’round your little mazes Figuring out...
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Liberty, Feminism, and Punk Rock
I’m very pleased to announce that I have a guest post up at Sandra Sanchez‘s blog The Individualist Feminist. Here’s an excerpt, but go read the entire post! Thanks to some older friends that I skated...
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It’s Caturday!
We’re back with another installment of Caturday, featuring the nine month old Marsh family tuxedo kitten Oreo. When Oreo isn’t sleeping he can be found perched on stools, claiming various other forms...
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Happy Birthday to the Magna Carta
We’re rapidly closing in on its 800th anniversary! Georgetown constitutional law professor and civil libertarian heavyweight Jonathan Turley offers up a retrospective: On this date, July 15, in the...
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The Expanding Police State in Music City
I love living in Nashville, Tennessee. I especially love my neighborhood of East Nashville, where I can basically walk out my front door and crawl to the historic “Five Points.” I’m within a one mile...
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You Should Wear a Clown’s Hat
Reason’s own human dumpster fire, Robby Soave, is at it again following another Milo Yiannopoulos college campus event cancellation behind mass protests. It remains the case that the students who shut...
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Nashville Feminists and the Downfall of TN State Rep. Jeremy Durham
Last April I covered a feminist protest in Nashville’s legislative building calling for State Rep. Jeremy Durham (R-Franklin) to resign behind allegations of sexual assault from three young female...
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