I try to be lenient when it comes to grammar rules, because language evolves and its purpose is to communicate, not to satisfy dogma. But there is such a thing as bad writing.

Unless the strategy for this Facebook ad is to get people to click it just to find out what the hell it’s trying to say, I’d tag it FAIL.

If you’re in an action movie, someone’s going to get killed. These tips will help you make sure it won’t be you.

1. Have weapons. Who’s going to pay to see problems solved without violence? Not your audience. You’d best be prepared to do some damage.

2. Don’t leave a gun next to a fallen enemy. Just because the guy you shot is on the ground doesn’t mean he can’t hurt you. How lazy do you have to be to leave guns lying all over the place anyway?

3. Wear safety glasses when facing biker gangs or other highway marauders. Mad Max films show how they wreck people by throwing car parts at windshields. Safety glasses won’t guarantee you’ll keep control of your vehicle, but they’re better than nothing. Remember, on the post-collapse highways of battle, it’s safety first!

4. Do flips. Projectiles cannot hit a movie hero whose body is flipping over – even if she’s moving in a straight line.

5. Don’t be the overly cocky guy. He usually dies.

6. Don’t go to the bathroom when cameras are rolling. If you’re filmed in the bathroom it probably means something bad will happen to you there. Go when everyone’s distracted by something important the other characters are doing.

7. Weapons are most effective when used in conjunction with snappy one-liners. But remember what Shakespeare said: brevity is the sole of potency. If you talk for too long, someone might shut you up with a bullet.

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Roderick Long drops some analysis on a Carson-Kinsella definitional dispute.

But isn’t the best way to settle this with a labeling contest? The vulgar vandarchocapitalist pirates just got etymology-slapped by the smelly mutualist ruffians!

Old cartoons depict the issues of the past.

Within three weeks of their release from Jones County custody, the Motorhome Diaries gang released this video of themselves attacking wholesome authoritarian values.

“come realize that to break once and for all with statism is to break once and for all with the Right-wing.” – Murray Rothbard

In Stop Fronting for Despots, a 1960s “anarchocapitalist” supports Students for a Democratic Society and blasts the “moneybags” who buy out dissent.

Geez, I sure hope the SDS never broke a corporate window. Because that would make Rothbard a vandarcho-capitalist for writing this article, and then who would Stephen Kinsella look up to?

H/T to Nick Manley

As for the Road Warrior…

Soviet Onion recently posted an interview of Penn Jillette in the Forums of the Libertarian Left:

Jillette’s opinion can be briefly summarized.

Real libertarians worship the US Constitution, a document that was written by a conspiracy of reactionaries and recognized as useless by libertarians in the mid-nineteenth century.

Only a savage would ever break a window. The only respectable way to fight oppression is with think tanks underwritten by wealthy capitalists and with marketing gimmicks. It’s a good thing private companies make the tear gas those Libertarian(tm)-Approved government cops are using. Otherwise imagine how many more banks and police cars would have broken windows.

I’m a libertarian because I don’t want someone ruling me personally. Who cares about anyone else?

Laugh at statements that radically condemn the status quo. Do not address their substance.

Tacitly approve anarcho-capitalism by reassuring the establishment that it stands for privatizing oppression.

Reinforce statist distinction between ineffective “peaceful” protestors and offensive “bad” protestors.

Keep your Illusions to yourself Penn. I hope the fat line between you and reality thins out.

I still think this feline Metallica cover is funny.

I also think you should take a serious look at the Center For a Stateless Society.