Living Freedom

Saturday links

Published August 4, 2018 11:18 am by Claire

Leave it to the Lone Star state once again. Texas Tech police say campus carry makes them safer. (Tip o’ hat to LarryA)

Michelle Malkin says, “Free Valentino Dixon.”

Just in case you need more than the NYT’s assurance that their new hire Sarah Jeong isn’t racist. Or sexist. Or heterophobic. Nooooo, not her. (For the record, I don’t think having creepy opinions is a firing offense; but her hiring does cement NYT firmly in place as a provincial rag of the blue archipelago.)

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Celebrate!

Published August 4, 2018 8:25 am by Claire

Today is Barack Obama Day, the first annual holiday in honor of the Lightbringer’s birthday. The legislature in Obama’s former home state of Illinois passed a law last year to designate each Aug. 4 as a commemorative holiday to celebrate the 44th president, whose political career began in the Land of Lincoln. The law, signed by Republican Gov. Bruce Rauner (emphasis mine), takes effect this year. Democrats had hoped to make Obama’s birthday a full legal holiday that gives state workers and others a day off with pay, but Republicans balked at the cost. The holiday is commemorative, meaning that…

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Friday links

Published August 3, 2018 2:02 am by Claire

Well, so much for the myth of polite Canadians. Give ’em badges and to thuggery they go. And excuse-making, too, of course.

Yesterday was 75 years since the uprising at Treblinka.

In February, the NYT hired, then immediately fired, a writer who’d made questionable tweets and was friends with a white supremacist. Now they’ve knowingly hired a writer who hates white people. And men. And straights. And they’re standing by her. Cause, you know, that’s okay.

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Midweek links

Published August 1, 2018 10:57 am by Claire

Gender fluidity — or at least the political aspect thereof — has its uses. It could save you guys some money.

Why it’s still okay to call people white trash according to NPR.

Just in case you weren’t already on “a list,” you surely are now, thanks to the TSA’s Quiet Skies program. Bovard has his usual sharp take on gov idiocy.

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Talk about not being able to stop the signal!

Published August 1, 2018 7:10 am by Claire

DefCad.com goes dark. Judge’s order. CodeIsFreeSpeech.com rises. With all the same downloadable and perfectly legal 3D-printable firearm plans, not subject to the restraining diktat. What did they expect? How many more mirrors can the grandstanding statist bastards stomp? How many more will arise? Declan McCullagh has details.

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What we’ve lost

Published July 31, 2018 10:56 am by Claire

Last spring I sat down to create a third edition of The Freedom Outlaws Handbook. I knew major updates would be needed, particularly in the areas of freedom technology and privacy. Eleven years had passed. Tech changes. Ventures fail. Laws tighten. Rarely, laws loosen (but it does happen). I was prepared for that. I wasn’t prepared for devastation. But devastation confronted me as I attempted to revise item after item. Mere rewrites were futile. Mere replacements didn’t exist. Site after site, option after option had disappeared. Sometimes they’d merely disappeared, broke, obsolete, unable to deliver on their promises, or neglected…

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Monday links

Published July 30, 2018 10:22 am by Claire

Pennsylvania is SO twentieth century. They got Defense Distributed to block downloads of 3D-printable gun plans. Lots of verbal hand-wringing. No acknowledgement that VPNs and proxies make physical location irrelevant.

Pity that neither the PA gov nor the Catholic church was so interested in protecting residents against 300 pedophile priests included in an upcoming “nuclear bomb” grand jury report.

We don’t need the future Silicon Valley is selling.

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Final straws

Published July 29, 2018 6:14 pm by Claire

On the light side … have some more straw-ban funnies, courtesy of Len Savage:

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Construction matters

Published July 29, 2018 6:05 pm by Claire

Whew. Another weekend away from the computer, working outdoors. After feeling like a vampire bat in a cave of gloom for nine months, it sure feels good to work in the sunshine. Or even in the slightly-less-wet gloom, which is what we had yesterday. The Wandering Monk finished his part of the east wall project on Friday, then returned yesterday at no charge to remove the scaffolding and help with a few extra bits. Nice guy, that Monk. Since then I’ve been painting trim. There is a lot of trim on this house. It’s very good at covering old idiocies…

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