May 2010

If you don’t like it, leave — for a price

by Geoffrey Allan Plauché May 28, 2010 @ 12:29 pm Featured Posts

A common retort that libertarians, even minarchists, hear when criticizing ‘their’ government is “If you don’t like it, then just leave.” Indeed, residency is perceived to be one piece of evidence (among others, like voting, paying taxes, etc.) for one’s implicit consent to the state and its rules. Just leave. As if there are better alternatives. [...]

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White Flag Warrior

by Geoffrey Allan Plauché May 16, 2010 @ 1:21 am Music

There’s a new anti-war rock/hip-hop song hitting the air waves lately. It is called White Flag Warrior, from the album Survival Story, by Flobots and featuring Tim McIlrath of the punk rock band Rise Against. It’s a catchy tune with good lyrics, melding both rock and hip hop elements. The song has a definite non-violent [...]

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Recipe: Mediterranean Ham & Cheese Mini-Sub

by Geoffrey Allan Plauché May 10, 2010 @ 6:08 pm Food and Cooking

This is not a real Mediterranean recipe. I just made it up. I like it because it’s simple, easy to make, consists of just good meat, cheese and bread, and tastes good. Ingredients 1 mini-sub roll (a small, slender 6″ sub-shaped roll; I like Asiago cheese rolls) deli-style, thinly-sliced smoked ham (Hillshire Farm is good) [...]

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American vs. British SF, Revisited

by Geoffrey Allan Plauché May 1, 2010 @ 12:22 am Aristotelian Liberalism

A while back I published a blogpost here about the individualist American strain of SF and the more cosmological perspective of the British strain. I just published and expanded and revised version at The Libertarian Standard, working in more explicit libertarian observations.

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