Beta testing is going swimmingly at the new member site. All we need is another small round of testers to vet the new registration procedures Bill St. Clair is finalizing right about now. (Much smoother than the original sign-up.) Will five or six more people raise their hands to volunteer? Anybody who donated $20 or more to the late fundraiser is eligible for a membership (minimum three months) and therefore eligible to beta test. And once you’re in as a beta tester, you’re in and you can jump into the pool with your clothes on welcome to join the party.
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Talk of forcing us into a cashless society has been around for decades. It’s very easy to tune it out as old news, something that’s going to remain a statist pipe dream forever. But it’s time to take this very, very seriously. The stage has been set. We’ve got central-bank desperation. Negative interest-rate policies. A police/surveillance state in which cash is more important to the authorities than any actual crimes committed. And the increasing ruthlessness of first-world states everywhere. We’ve got an atmosphere in which the desire for privacy is itself considered a sign of criminal intent. Now the faux-intellectual…
26 CommentsOkay, this is an experiment, guys. But if you’ve been wanting an autographed dead-tree copy of either RebelFire: Out of the Gray Zone or Hardyville Tales, you can — for the moment at least — get them on Amazon. Both links should take you straight to all the Marketplace sellers who have unused copies for sale. Living Freedom — that’s me — is at the top with the lowest price. If you find some other result when you click the link, just look for the Living Freedom handle. The listing procedures didn’t allow me to say the books were autographed,…
5 CommentsThis comes from across the pond. But what a lovely example it is. Hugo Dixon is a big mover behind the effort to keep Britain in the European Union. He devotes this entire Guardian column to that wish. (The Guardian, leftist, pro-big-government rag that it is, in no doubt only too happy to host those thoughts.) But wait, you swiftly point out. Didn’t Brits already v*te to leave the EU? And haven’t we been hearing for lo these many decades that “democracy” is sacred above all other forums of government? And on top of that, aren’t things in the UK…
13 CommentsUpdate on big, scary earth-moving project Rained all night, so the big-scary earth-moving project almost didn’t start today. But the rain wasn’t heavy and the area to be worked is sheltered by house, hill, and trees. Two inches down, the ground was dry. Or as dry as it gets around here. So it has begun: That’s Lester hunched over the controls of the machine. He decided he was well enough, after all. And I must admit he does better on the seat of that little tractor than he does on his own two feet. The Wandering Monk, there in the…
5 CommentsBut too good not to post here: (Stolen from Miguel. That version later corrected by Brad R.) OTOH, the reality would be more like “First they came for the gun owners. Then they couldn’t come for anybody anymore.”
14 CommentsOkay, here’s a fun one. Instead of the usual Capital-S Serious poll over at TZP, this week it’s time to choose your preferred superpower.
9 CommentsThis afternoon, after putzing at the computer and attending a small holiday festival, I concocted a Virgin Mary and stretched out on a recliner in the back yard. It’s lovely, but it doesn’t feel that summer will be with us very longer. It’s been a muted season, in any case. Not cold, but cloudy and drizzly. The rare occasions the sun’s come out, we’ve been blasted with 95-degree surges, not our usual balmy 70 degrees. But mostly … it’s been just what outsiders think of when they think of the Pacific NorthWET, a land without summer. We already had several…
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