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Number 694, October 28, 2012
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The unabridged audio version of my 1983 novel The Nagasaki Vector, brilliantly read by the great libertarian radio host Brian Wilson, is finally available for purchase.

Many feel that this is the funniest book I've written so far—at least intentionally—and features our old friend Win Bear, G. Howell Nahuatl, a sapient coyote, time traveler Bernie Gruenblum, and Georgie, the time machine who loves him.

The price: $12.99.
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—L. Neil Smith

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A couple of months ago for some reason I glanced at the Wikipedia article on Mr. Barzun, and was amazed to see he was still with us. Now this:

Jacques Barzun Dies at 104; Cultural Critic Saw the Sun Setting on the West
by Donal F. Holway/The New York Times

Jacques Barzun, the distinguished historian, essayist, cultural gadfly and educator who helped establish the modern discipline of cultural history and came to see the West as sliding toward decadence, died Thursday night in San Antonio, where he lived. He was 104.
....
Mr. Barzun was a man of boundless curiosity, monumental productivity and manifold interests, encompassing both Berlioz and baseball. It was a life of the mind first cultivated more than a century ago in a childhood home outside Paris that became an avant-garde salon.

Mr. Barzun stood beside Sidney Hook, Daniel Bell and Lionel Trilling as among the mid-20th century's most wide-ranging scholars, all of whom tried to reconcile the achievements of European culture and philosophy with the demands and tastes of American intellectual and cultural life.
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Letters to the Editor
from L. Neil Smith, A.X. Perez, Robert Sheets, and Michael Bradshaw
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Pain
by L. Neil Smith
In recent weeks, I have been undergoing repairs to the damage to my teeth that is a result of having been diabetic for a quarter of a century. The work -- and recovery process -- have been remarkably painful, although, with the help of prescription medicines, I have been trying to work in spite of the pain. I don't know how well I've done. I most regret having "suddenly" fallen out correspondence with several good people. I do know that when the pain was gone, and I could stop taking the narcotics, I slept around the clock for pretty much two days in a row. I would never have gone into all this, except that it started me thinking about the effect that pain must undoubtedly have had on history.
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Hans-Hermann Hoppe and the Political Equivalent of Nuclear Fusion
by Sean Gabb
I have been invited to contribute a chapter to this book of appreciations of Hans-Hermann Hoppe. Now, he is a person of forbidding achievements. He has made important contributions to economics, to political theory, to law, and to epistemology, among much else. He is also a person of much organisational ability, and the conferences he runs at Bodrum for his Property and Freedom Society have rapidly established themselves as one of the high points in the libertarian calendar.
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The 47% Aren't Really The Problem. Its The 53% That Are REALLY Causing The Trouble!
by Neale Osborn
No, I didn't roll over and become a useless fucking socialist. I mean it. The problem is people paying taxes. We need to stop it from occuring anymore. Taxes are the lifeblood of government. Taxes enable the government to buy votes from certain groups. Taxes enable government to spend money to regulate our lives. Taxes enable the government to "provide services" that "everybody needs", which they then use to buy even more votes AND justify even more taxes. In other words, to justify their existence.
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"Officer safety"
by Kent McManigal
I despise the bogus concept of "officer safety". What a completely disgusting justification for anything some corrupt cop (redundancy alert) wants to do to you. Why would a reaver's safety be more important than mine or anyone else's? Why shouldn't I be able to disarm and cuff any cop I encounter as a safety precaution? You know, just until I ascertain that he is not a threat to me or to anyone else ("the public")? Who is actually more likely to shoot whom? Well, check out the statistics for yourself.
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On "Gangsoops, Stopas, Level, i.e.,s, Brochureas, Lefties, Jihadics, Tyranniesideases, (and) Anywhichwayes"
Or, A Bit of Harshness for Ol' Dave

by Michael Bradshsaw
Sandwiched between two bits of discussion of Mr. Childs and his change of heart on the subject of anarchy (and George and Ronald's comments thereon), its practicality and moral comparison to the rule of a state, Mr. Brown wanders afield into his own value judgments on the moral virtue of aggressive violence as embodied in political states. He very adroitly combines the above with his utter abhorrence of political freedom and the vile and disgusting act of leaving other people alone.
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The Poisoned Dish
by A.X. Perez
It is interesting to note that for all practical purposes poverty is a result of four things in America: education, single parent family status, and immigration, and employment. It is also to be noted that nanny state policies tend to encourage single parent families and unemployment.
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Dope
by L. Neil Smith
Robert Anton Wilson and Robert Shea (six words with which it's always good to begin an essay about recreational drugs) the distinguished authors of the massive novel Illuminatus! compared the preferred self-medicating substances of two consecutive American generations.
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Atlantea The Beautiful No. 200
by L. Neil Smith and Rex May
Number 200 of a weekly cartoon series.
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The unabridged audio version of my 1983 novel The Nagasaki Vector, brilliantly read by the great libertarian radio host Brian Wilson, is finally available for purchase.

Many feel that this is the funniest book I've written so far—at least intentionally—and features our old friend Win Bear, G. Howell Nahuatl, a sapient coyote, time traveler Bernie Gruenblum, and Georgie, the time machine who loves him.

The price: $12.99.

The place: CD Baby.

Now available in iTunes, as well
The price: $9.99
The Place: iTunes

—L. Neil Smith


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