I know I haven’t been spending a lot of time on the blog recently. Schoolwork, commentaries, Thinking Liberty, and venturing outside have proven to be a more time-consuming combination than I expected.

But here’s some metal to keep things awesome.

Bring a Gun to School Day, the bold novella about police states and the scapegoats they make, is now available as a Creator-Endorsed free e-book!

Grab the .pdf at BringaGunToSchoolDay.com. If you like it, maybe you could give someone the paperback as a present.

The New Yorker has published an article on the influence of the Koch bros. Jesse Walker responded at Reason. I found both at Roderick Long’s blog, where they are discussed here and here.

Radley Balko brings a useful counterpoint when he says “I’d like to thank the Koch brothers for six years of funding my right-wing, corporatist work on police abuse and criminal justice reform.” Cato also hosted Roderick Long’s Corporations Versus the Market article. There is more to the story than the pursuit of corporate profits.

Of course, Samuel Konkin, who invented the word Kochtopus, talked about this thirty years ago in New Libertarian Manifesto and elsewhere.

The story reminds me of politicians who conflate their personal interests (exercising power) with the common interest.

And it is pronounced “Coke-topus.” “Cock-topus” is the lovable mutant who pulls the strings at Thinking Liberty. His henchman is a bear from Canada rumored to be an ultra-rich marijuana tycoon.

Viking Zombies seem to have magical powers in this Ensiferum video.

Aus-Rotten: “The System Works for Them”

This:

Thank you Bosco.