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“Things Could Be Worse”

October 12, 2009

People are so preoccupied with the how-bad-things-might-become in the worst-case scenario, that they’ve entirely neglected how bad things actually are.

If you say, “Things could be worse,” I challenge you to instead imagine how things could be better.

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When Is a Recovery Not a Recovery?

October 3, 2009

When it’s a jobless recovery, i.e., that fiction by which the Politicians and Fat-Cats pretend that everything is A-OK, in order to trick the rest of us into following their marching orders off the next goddamn cliff, next year or next decade.
But it’s worse than “jobless”, which suggests job neutrality.  In reality, jobs are disappearing.
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Posted in: Agora!, American Politics, Employment & Labor, Left Libertarian | 2 Comments


Property Rights Do Not Justify Sexual Harassment

September 29, 2009

Block’s argument is so stupid that I feel dirty just knowing that some readers might interpret this as a positive defense of his argument. I do not. To the extent that Block believes an ambiguous employment agreement grants the employer unlimited license to molest his employees, absolutely he is a raving ass. This does not mean that the entire corpus of “anarcho-capitalist” ethics is wrong,

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This is What a Police State Looks Like

September 28, 2009

The photo (taken from the video on YouTube) shows a group of heavily armed police officers posing for a group photo with one of their trophies captives. The purpose of staging such a photograph with someone who is “innocent until proven guilty” is psychological warfare.

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