"Understanding law as an autopoietic signaling system frees us to discard the idea of authority."
The Empty Idea of Authority by Laurence Claus, University of San Diego School of Law, August 4, 2008 [SSRN]

The Limits of Libertarian Binaries [American Conservative]

Ex-mobster turned FBI informant, low-life crook, and cultural icon Henry Hill's obit [Breitbart]

There are 64 drone bases on American soil. That includes 12 locations housing Predator and Reaper unmanned aerial vehicles, which can be armed. [Wired]

" 'Do what you love; the money will follow.' I doubt that." [Hooligan Libertarian]

The love affair teenagers and young adults have with technology doesn’t necessarily translate into interest in a career in IT [CompTIA]

Data brokers aren't keen to delete your personal data but they will happily sell it to anyone [Technology Review]

Chicago newspaper's new mission is to inform you, not tell you how to vote

The Chicago Sun-Times will no longer make editorial page candidate endorsements. I think this is a good thing. Probably should have been their position all along. Very few people really care that much what an editorial board thinks about candidates or political issues, they just want the facts along with some context. The sorting it all out they can do themselves.

Okay now tell us what you really think

Florence King on democracy: "The crude leading the crud."

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The Greeks get it; Americans just don't - TruthDig (Chris Hedges)

An amateur theater group reads Howard Zinn's play Marx In Soho - link

Professor Althouse is pretty accurate here but she doesn't go far enough - Althouse

"A love of autocracy often lurks beneath the liberal veneer. There's this idea that the right answers are known and the people are just too deluded and distorted to see what they are and to vote for them." But this isn't just a problem with "liberals" though. It applies to all the zealots and ideologues out there.

The myths and legends about Che Guevara - The Anarchist Library

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Movie depicts seamy life of Facebook boss - Times of London

How do governments convince people to obey them? - Let A Thousand Nations Bloom (Mike Gibson)