Recent Comments

• Araglin: Hey Quasibill, I realize that some of this stuff is purely terminological, and the differences between branches of law can often be better explaine...
• quasibill: Araglin, "There is also another sense of agency in the case of torts, where the principal has hired the agent for the very purpose of committing th...
• Ian: Let's set aside the blackmailer-blackmailee relationship for a second and think about me as a person vulnerable to blackmail. Ler's assume t...
• Kevin Carson: Thanks, Tom, Alix and neverfox. They're not intersecting as much as I'd like, Alix, but it's still nice....
• P.M.Lawrence: "It seemed like Risse was considering multiple possible versions of left-libertarianism..." - no, he claimed he was, but on the evidence of the...
• neverfox: At this stage any further comments of support for this dangerous policy deserve a response, even if only in segue. And it's applicable because the sam...
• neverfox: That's wonderful, Kevin. They couldn't have picked a better first. Now that's change I can believe in. And please, more people vote for Kevin in the "...
• Mona: Thank you Ian. My points had I made them....
• TGGP: How do your versions differ? It seemed like Risse was considering multiple possible versions of left-libertarianism, though he focused a lot on one bo...
• Ian: This phrase annoys me as “Americans” have not committed torture en masse, merely a select few thugs in an institution that not all Americans actual...
• Roderick T. Long: That's a different version of left-libertarianism from the one I favor....
• Araglin: Point of information: The common law of "agency" deals with the authority (or power)of agents to bind principals to contracts with third pa...
• Decline and Fall: I was at Abu Ghraib prison in the Spring-Summer of 2004, and I can tell you that one of the more typical reactions to the abuse scandal was that "we d...
• Jennifer Abel: What I found most interesting (read: stupid) wasn't even the fact that the woman got a bill for a penny, but the government's utter cluelessness regar...
• Nell: Mona, thanks very much for your clarification and for the link to the BBC program, and Paul, thanks for raising the point. I was disturbed by the sam...
• Jeff P: There's an old trick for getting out of a parking ticket where you short the amount by one cent on the check you send in. Before the process went elec...
• Alix: Kevin, I have only read your stuff over here at AotP, but have "big plans" to read the rest of it. (along with Keith's stuff also) Seriously. Cong...
• Alix: Cheney and Gonzales have just been indicted by a Grand Jury in Texas, related to the abuse of prisoners. I suppose this is meant to satiate the appet...
• joe from Lowell: Would that be the Jimmy Carter whose peace initiative elimited the thrreat of an Egyptian invasion, the greatest existential threat Israel has ever fa...
• Nathan: "the torture we Americans have committed on foreigners" This phrase annoys me as "Americans" have not commited torture en masse, merely a select fe...
• quasibill: "If I hire someone to wash my car, and they instead run a bunch of people over with it for fun, they were not acting as my agent," Most likely not,...
• quasibill: Well, that didn't take long: http://www.theartofthepossible.net/2008/10/10/contagion/ Of course, you didn't explicitly make the case that the re...
• quasibill: "Show me where I said the bank bailout would forestall the recession? " Meh. My memory of the discussion was that you supported the bailout becaus...
• Rich Baumann: Renegade Division wrote: Solicitation would be much less effective if only the person who commits the crime receives the sole respo...
• Renegade Division: if you want to abolish the entire common law tradition of agency doctrine, well, that’s one of those areas that gets libertarians written ...
• Angelica: Neverfox, Please try and keep threads somewhat on-target. My reasons for supporting the BANK bailout are outlined in my previous posts on the matter....
• Angelica: Yes, amusing...at the same time you've gotta think it's a freak occurence. Most people either pay their whole bill or they default on the whole bill. ...
• Tom Paine: Congratulations Kevin. I came upon your blog a few years ago when I was researching justly acquired property and it has inspired me ever since. All...
• js: Less % of income earned working for the evil business from hell then :D. Congrats! I came here from lurking on Kevin's blog, it's great reading....
• js: They are going to have the staff weed through the bills to figure out those below a certain amount? These people have never heard of computer automat...
• Mona: I get that you were just underscoring your point about non-violent offenders… but the wording kind of freaks me out. I also do not think rap...
• paul of the clue-by-four: Mona, this is powerful stuff, and I will check it out... however, I was a little thrown by the next-to-last graf. I actually don't think rape shoul...
• Jennifer Abel: And actually getting the checks when promised is nice, too. I've heard rumors about the niceness of this, but haven't been able to confirm i...
• neverfox: "See the problem is, by putting the liability on the hirer, you are making his persuasion more effective. If I tell you that we must kill Mr A, and...
• neverfox: "See the contract killer CHOSE to commit the murder upon receipt of money. He was not BOUND to commit the murder upon receipt of money." Yes and th...
• nobody.really: I sheepishly acknowledge not having yet read any of Kevin Carson’s works, and I don’t expect that to change any time soon. But in the spirit of these...
• Kevin Carson: PML: I guess I'll volunteer for the "my own blog" part. Thanks Jeremy and Nick....
• "Nick Manley" - The Curious "Deviant": Congrats! Kevin. I look forward to reading your forthcoming work....
• Jeremy: Congrats, Kevin! I remember Keith Preston and I having a conversation over a beer once, and I brought up my dream of being able to fund an organizati...
• quasibill: "confer on you authority to kill my spouse" I think you're venturing into unsound territory with this argument, Mona. How can I "confer" something...