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About Me
- Quantum Tuba
- "There are, however, some potentates I would kill by any and all means at my disposal. They are Ignorance, Superstition, and Bigotry — the most sinister and tyrannical rulers on earth." -Emma Goldman
Various Blogs
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My New Dispatch Article on the Tariff Decision, its Implications - and a Key Issue the Court Did Not Resolve - The Court stopped a massive presidential power grab, but did not resolve a crucial issue about judicial review of executive use of emergency powers.
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Centralized Versus Local Policymaking: Evidence from China - Overall, the study concludes that decentralized governance structures enable more effective local policies. This is consistent with the libertarian perspec...2 hours ago
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Monday assorted links - 1. “Nigeria’s industrialization fails to gather steam after 65 years.” 2. Did Eastern Europe produce that many slaves? 3. Vitalik on AI and governance. 4...2 hours ago
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Iran, Bunker Busters, and Empire First - When it comes to the dangerous misgovernance of our tottering American Republic, there is no more deadly combination imaginable than: The sweeping unchecke...19 hours ago
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Verso un Comunismo del Copyright? - Di Kevin Carson. Articolo originario: Copyright Communism?, del 15 maggio 2009. Tradotto in italiano da Enrico Sanna. In un’intervista del 2005 Bill Gates ...1 day ago
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Theses on Revolutionary Workplace Nucleus, Party, and Dictatorship (1931) - [image: Construction of the Afsluitdijk dam] In its pamphlet Theses on Revolutionary Workplace nucleus, Party and Dictatorship, the council communist Gr...2 days ago
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Trump Tariff Meltdown - In a press conference today, Trump proclaimed: “I can destroy the [foreign] country.” Trump was outraged that the Supreme Court struck down his primary t...2 days ago
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Announcement - Beginning today, new *Free Association* material will be found on my Substack newsletter, *Free Association*. This blog will remain as an archive. Please ...3 days ago
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Trump Secretly Deports 9 to Cameroon in Africa - Just when you think our country is at an all-time low and things can't get any worse, Donald Trump brings us even lower. According to the New York Times ...1 week ago
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What I’m Reading: The Century-Long Depression (late medieval England a prison for servants) - What I’m Reading: Anton Howes, The Century-Long Depression in Age of Invention (Aug. 26, 2025) Compared to the world of work today, with all its occasional...3 weeks ago
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Mass job cuts on the horizon as Trump's economy backslides - On Tuesday, Amazon announced it is cutting 14,000 corporate jobs, becoming the latest major corporation to slash its workforce in the rapidly declining e...3 months ago
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Update Proyek Tol Baru di Sekitar Area DC Tahun Ini - Washington DC dan sekitarnya terus berkembang, dan jaringan jalan tol di area ini juga mengalami ekspansi untuk memenuhi kebutuhan mobilitas yang semakin...9 months ago
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We Are Hiring a Director of Communications! - SRLP Seeks Director of Communications Our Mission The Sylvia Rivera Law Project (SRLP) works to guarantee that all people are free to self-determine thei...1 year ago
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Some Links - (Don Boudreaux) TweetWriting in the Wall Street Journal, NYU physicist Steven Koonin reports on how the Biden White House inadvertently told the truth abou...2 years ago
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SheeLilly#2 Cindy and Dakotah Rate the Final Season of the USA (PODCAST 10 JUNE 2022) - SheeLilly#2Cindy and Dakotah Rate the Final Season of the USA Cindy Sheehan Jun 10 Share This week on SheeLilly, Cindy Sheehan and Dakotah Lilly analyz...2 years ago
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For Social Justice, End Qualified Immunity - In the wake of George Floyd’s murder, so many of us are trying to figure out “how can we stop these things from happening”? Unfortunately, the answer is ...2 years ago
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Workers Solidarity Movement closing statement - This is the promised detailed analysis of the end of the WSM following on from our very brief announcement of December 7th, 2021 titled 'WSM has come to ...2 years ago
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The Lee Monument Time Capsule, by Cliff Page - The Lee Monument Time Capsule, by Cliff Page The tearing down of cultural, heroic, and veterans memorials and monuments is what a people’s worst enemies ...4 years ago
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Tips For Taking Great Car Selfies - Now that Instagram is the main photo-sharing site on the web, one of the most popular types of photos to take are selfies. Most people put filters on their...4 years ago
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Customer Agent Rendering - A customer representative or perhaps buyer broker is the strategy of a brokerage or property broker symbolizing a client in an financial commitment transac...4 years ago
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Why women are extremely rarely accused of sexual harassment? - The History The MeToo movement began in 2006, but it did not gain popularity until October 2017, following an allegation of sexual harassment...4 years ago
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Generation of Vipers: The Original Sin and Continuous Crimes of America’s Involvement in Afghanistan - *O generation of vipers, how can ye, being evil, speak good things? *– *Matthew* 12:34 I. People need to understand something about Afghanistan, and the ...4 years ago
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The Transgender Nature of Ernest Hemingway - [image: Hemingway in Kenya] *Ernest Hemingway is one of the most influential and popuar authors in the US. They won the Nobel Prize in Litterature in 195...4 years ago
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Moe’s Books Workers Join the IWW - FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Moe’s Books Workers, IWWPress Contact: communications@iww.org MOE’S BOOKS WORKERS JOIN THE IWW,AND MANAGEMENT VOLUNTARILY RECOGNIZE...4 years ago
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No Empathy With Tyranny - I am happy the Trump regime is coming to an end. I am angry the Trump regime happened and isn’t over yet. There may be a path to redemption for most of Tru...5 years ago
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A good run: Overlawyered, 1999-2020 - I published the first Overlawyered post on July 1, 1999, and I expect this post on May 31, 2020 will be the last. As someone in the entertainment world o...5 years ago
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For Asian Immigrants, Cooperatives Came From the Home Country - For these communities, solidarity economics have been practiced out of necessity. But there are lessons we could all learn.5 years ago
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Of Groups, Intersections, and the People Who Inhabit Them - Jacob T. Levy The powerful norms and rules that structured life in the American South during slavery and Jim Crow not only prohibited sex between black me...5 years ago
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Laugh About It, Shout About It When You’ve Got to Choose - I’m going to be one of the moderators for the Libertarian Party’s presidential candidates’ debate on Friday, February 28th, in conjunction with the Alabama...6 years ago
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Private Prison Divestment with Dalit Baum & Alex Friedmann - Via AFSC The biggest banks in the country are pulling their financial backing from the biggest private prison companies. Why now, and what does it mean lon...6 years ago
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Live Chat – The Density Divide: Urbanization, Polarization & Populist Backlash - I discuss my new paper on polarization and the rise of ethno-nationalist populism as overlooked side-effects of urbanization in this free-wheeling live cha...6 years ago
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Crisis - I suppose some people might wonder why I'm not completely hysterical. Why would I be hysterical? The building where I've lived for 22 years is scheduled fo...6 years ago
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Hello world! - Welcome to WordPress. This is your first post. Edit or delete it, then start writing!6 years ago
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Is an Anti-Choice Clinic Using ‘Unlawful Imprisonment’ as Company Policy? - Those familiar with the tactics employed at anti-choice pregnancy clinics say they're not surprised by a recent Reddit post from a clinic worker. The po...7 years ago
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Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie: ‘This could be the beginning of a revolution’ - Lisa Allardice in The Guardian: At a PEN lecture in Manhattan last weekend, the novelist Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie took Hillary Clinton to task for beginnin...7 years ago
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According to Will Wilkinson, violent protests on campus aren't a threat to free speech, but this girl's graduation photo is. - A couple weeks ago, I got into a discussion on a thread with long-time Facebook friend and now NY Times commentator, Will Wilkinson about this "controversi...
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Iraq War II: A History Lesson - It’s been 15 years since they lied us into Iraq War II. So I did a couple of long, in-depth interviews with Jonathan Schwarz about how and why they lied us...7 years ago
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Turning out the lights and moving on: Goodbye, old ScienceBlogs blog, hello new blog - Turning out the lights and moving on: Goodbye, old ScienceBlogs blog, hello new blog Today is the last day that ScienceBlogs will exist. Sometime today th...8 years ago
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Friday Cephalopod: I succumb to peer pressure and will mention Octopolis - Friday Cephalopod: I succumb to peer pressure and will mention Octopolis Wow. Every person on the planet saw one version or another of this "Octopolis" st...8 years ago
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Thank You. - I've never been much of a writer (let alone one of my father's caliber), but I know that I must express my thanks to you all somehow. The support that we h...8 years ago
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"don’t tell me your bullshit. i don’t want your lies." - “don’t tell me your bullshit. i don’t want your lies.” - *unspoken, 1:30pm (via unsent-unspoken)*8 years ago
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East Los High’s New Year New Presidency Call to Action - A msg of protest from #EastLosCuatro for a new year & presidency #CallToAction #Not1More #HereToStay Read more9 years ago
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The Recent Critics of Identity Politics Are Clueless About Identity Politics - Many political scientists and other experts contend that reliable demographic information regarding the 2016 election does not yet exist. The scarcity of...
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Why Does My Church Oppose Medical Marijuana? - In February I found myself in a private meeting with the infamous “home teachers”—the somewhat pejorative nickname given to the two lobbyists employed by t...9 years ago
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First DailyNerve Test - Here's a test question for those who want to explore DailyNerve, a great new site designed to generate crowdsourced innovative responses to today's problems.9 years ago
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Desktop Regulatory State -- Now in Print! - The book I've been working on for almost five years, *The Desktop Regulatory State: The Countervailing Power of Individuals and Networks*, is now in print....
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Indefinite Hiatus/Retirement - Hey guys, I know I haven’t put up anything new in a very long time. This is just to catch everyone up with what’s been going on with me and what will be go...10 years ago
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Thanksgiving: Lincoln, the Civil War, FDR and some little known facts - While many believe that Thanksgiving Day is related to the mythical 1st Thanksgiving of the Pilgrims, that linkage wasn't actually made until later. BY CHE...10 years ago
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A CryptoFiction - Here’s a micro-story I started with the Access Crypto Summit flash fiction prompt in mind, left half done, and then belatedly finished off anyway, because ...10 years ago
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Gazi Kodzo talks police and... - Gazi Kodzo talks police and afrocentrism. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=43LAdRkz_8I10 years ago
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Cops get $4 million after killing black man - In 2010, George Diego and Allan Corrales of the Los Angeles Police Department shot and killed an unarmed black man, Steven Eugene Washington. The case was ...10 years ago
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The Years Of Writing Dangerously - Thirteen years ago, as I was starting to experiment with this blogging thing, I wrote the following: [T]he speed with which an idea in your head reaches th...11 years ago
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Poem: The Real Red Hot - Hello readers, I’m back in Japan, first time since 2007. This time it’s to visit in-laws, instead of as a tourist. I wrote a ton of high-quality stuff duri...11 years ago
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So long, and thanks for all the fish - by Massimo Pigliucci Or, as the title of the last Star Trek: The Next Generation episode wistfully announced: “All good things…” This is the last Ration...
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Exclusive: Despite escalating government intimidation, Greenwald will “force the issue” and visit U.S. - Months after the first insinuations that he risks arrest if he visits the US, Greenwald is more concerned than ever12 years ago
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Obama's NSA 'reforms' are little more than a PR attempt to mollify the public | Glenn Greenwald - Obama is draping the banner of change over the NSA status quo. Bulk surveillance that caused such outrage will remain in place In response to political sca...12 years ago
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Thank you - This is my last post for the Bad Astronomy Blog on Discover Magazine. As of today – Monday, November 12, 2012 – the blog has a new home at Slate magazine...13 years ago
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Zero stakes. - So I just read this article on the SF Gate about SF and Oakland losing out on federal funds because their unions refused to sign on to the strings attached...13 years ago
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Paranoid Parents and the Fear of Walking to School - I was reading a CDC report today which, while it is a few years old, indicates a clear trend in this country: the rising paranoid delusions of parents co...
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Questioning Transphobia Has Ceased to Be - Unfortunately, Questioning Transphobia’s server went through a hardware failure and the domain is no longer registered. You can still read most of QT (barr...14 years ago
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Moving on - Moving on Finally, at long last, I can tell you what I've been up to with finding a new home for this blog. I've created a new, community-based science b...15 years ago
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Drop It Like It's Hot - Well, we all survived another week. It's been a rough week as both the boys have colds. The little one is particularly miserable and has been cussing u...17 years ago
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New Pro-Science Think Tank Formed - New Pro-Science Think Tank Formed Paul Kurtz, founder of the Center for Inquiry and editor of Free Inquiry, has opened an office in Washington DC to act a...19 years ago
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