Archive for “March of 2008”

What is Your Obligation to Your Lender?

March 25, 2008

Initially I was going to include this in the next issue of “Comments on Comments,” but it’s awfully long, and despite having recently posted a handful of thought-provoking posts (at least, IMO) in the last week or so, the comments have been few and far between. I didn’t want to let this wait any […]

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War Tax Resistance and Agorism

March 24, 2008

Some people think that a good tactic is to withold some amount of their taxes due, in order to prevent the government from using that money to finance its empire-building. This is a symbolic gesture, at best, because it’s not going to prevent the government from monetizing more debt and stealing the value of […]

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Jury Nullification: The Only Moral Option

March 21, 2008

There has been a lot of recent commentary on the matter of jury nullification, which finally inspired me to sound off a week or so ago. The basis of the arguments I chose for the opposition were drawn from a series of posts on the topic by Kip, Esquire, who recently added further to […]

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Incunabula

March 21, 2008

Incunabula — pl., noun

extant copies of books produced in the earliest stages (before 1501) of printing from movable type.
The earliest stages or first traces of anything.

I happened upon the word while translating an obituary for the Count Gaston de Marchant d’Ansembourg, with whom my friend Patrick and I stayed several nights while backpacking Europe in […]

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