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"Which group did you say you were with?" "The People's Crusade for Liberty." "I don't know it. One of the newer groups?" "Less than five years old. It started in California." "What's its program?" "Oh, the usual," Hahn said. "Free elections, representative government, an opening of the security files, restoration of civil liberties." "And the economic orientation? Pure Marxist or one of the offshoots?" "Not really any, I guess. We believed in a kind of--well, capitalism with some government restraints." "A little to the right of state socialism, and a little to the left of laissez-faire?" Barrett suggested. "Something like that." "But that system was tried and failed, wasn't it? It had its day. It led inevitably to total socialism, which produced the compensating backlash of syndicalist capitalism, and then we got a government that pretended to be libertarian while actually stifling all individual liberties in the name of freedom." Sci-fi authors' predictions are scarily cool. Posted by Greg @ 04:01 PM PST [Link]

LINKS and STUFF

Aspectus - This is Illiad's (of Userfriendly fame) other project, which is like Slashdot in some ways and like a personal blog in some ways, but cooler than either. Needs more content, and more visitors, but that'll come.

RED MEAT - Oh my. I imagine there is a FBI file on the artist. I never, ever want to meet him. But I will glory in his comic strip. Brilliance and intelligence wrapped up in the tattooed skin of a circus freak and tied with a bow made of blown O-rings.

Imparte.com - Rich's site. Not going to talk about it until he says I can. But go visit anyway.