Topics: The elections are a religious ritual and/or sporting event, I haven’t decided which yet; more voting rant; is voting immoral?; ballot measures and dirty political tricks; NYC mayor banned donations of food to homeless shelters last year, affecti

While at Libertopia 2012, I got to chat with Gary Chartier, Roderick Long, Charles Johnson, and Sheldon Richman! All are affiliated with the Center for a Stateless Society. If you're curious what "left libertarianism" means, this interview will fill you i

Topics: Occupy Sandy provides mutual aid for the hurricane aftermath; Therapist receives professional backlash for talking about dissociating from one's family of origin on Freedomain Radio; Man sues his wife for being "ugly" and wins; Uncle Abel faces e

Topics: Halloween - a response to repression? Costumes changing over time?; Teacher dresses up as maid to reward students; straight Christian man pretends to be gay for a year and writes a book about it; government funding and control of science; working

Topics: I’m back!; Markets Not Capitalism audiobook is on the Pirate Bay; Intellectual Monopoly; Patents Stifle Prosperity; How Mozilla makes money from open source software; “Copy culture” study says music pirates spend 30% more on music; Anarchist

Here's a solo cast about all the adventures I had on my trip to Libertopia 2012! Listen to hear about TSA antics, talk show hosts on lists, eating well on vacation, Fr33 Aid, my mutual aid talk at Libertopia, last Friday's (no)show, seeing friends and mee

I'm back from Libertopia 2012! Here is the talk that I presented there, "Mutual Aid for the Modern World." Video was kindly recorded and coming soon. Meanwhile, enjoy the audio - and if you want to, you can follow along by looking at my powerpoint. I had

Topics: No Politics Please filters politicians out of your facebook; gay Boy Scout denied Eagle Scout status; Honduras private cities project in trouble?; listener feedback: Iran vs. Saudi Arabia; How to talk about BO; atheists often know more about rel

Topics: Hong Kong tycoon offers $65M award for any man who can get with his daughter (who is married to a woman); the moral case for sex before marriage; Iranian cleric tells woman she's "poorly covered," gets beaten; faith healer couple's 16 yr old son d

Midwife Katie McCall was caught in a difficult situation as a senior midwifery student and had to make a choice about whether to provide emergent help to a mother in labor when no licensed midwife was available. As a result, she was caught in a long lega