One of the Pussy Riot defenders, Nadezhda Tolokonnikova, said at the trial yesterday, “We are freer than those who are prosecuting us. We can say everything we want, and they have their mouths shut and are puppets.” Every Christian in the world should be cheering her on.

User-submitted links to information on various religious groups.

Fred Clark on why some church people like to believe silly things.

When atheists sound like fundamentalist Christians.

A three-judge panel of the 9th Circuit Court has issued an opinion affirming that California’s Proposition 8 is unconstitutional! From the majority (2-1) opinion: "The People may not employ the initiative power to single out a disfavored group for unequal treatment and strip them, without a legitimate justification, of a right as important as the right to marry."

Asthon Kutcher on SOPA

Mikhail Bakunin on social contract theory.

“That sound you don’t hear — the absence of outrage over marriage rights, and gay spokespeople for middle-American companies — is the sound of social change.”

A fairly concise introduction to Christian anarchism by one of the most active academics researching the topic.

Nice short introduction to neomedievalism. The rest of this weblog is fun to read, too.

If nothing else, the Occupy protests have helped bring attention to laws aimed at criminalizing homelessness and the authoritarian restriction of public spaces.

The DA recently added a charge of trespassing and one of interfering with a law officer to my case (and offered me a deferred judgment, which I refused).

Expanding on Tucker’s four monopolies of the state

No Border camp sticker from a 2009 Lesbos camp.

There was a No Borders camp at the US-Mexico border for five days in 2007! I wish I had been there. Though they did get beat up pretty bad by the US Border Patrol on the last day. Check out the videos. There is also a series of three videos on YouTube summarizing the entire event:

Part 1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ccePCNfEsQ0
Part 2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yNJxYgEduSs
Part 3: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l9wGm6VA208&feature;=youtu.be

James Grimmelmann’s fascinating condensed history of Sealand, a micro-nation on a platform in the North Sea, and the attempt to run a data center there.

Count me in the left-wing market anarchist school.