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I mentioned previously my latest book, Online Contract Formation, published a couple months ago. It provides practical advice about legal issues related to formation of contracts through online means, from a multi-jurisdictional perspective.

Amazon is now carrying it. I need some reviews. A few readers should post some short reviews. I suggested on smart-ass one to a friend, “If I were interested in the law of online contract formation from a multi-jurisdictional perspective, this is the book I would get.”

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While you’re at it–do a favor for 3 buddies, and plug their books also on Amazon:

• Bay of One Hundred Fires (thriller novel by my first boss, conservative attorney Lanier Yeates–I discuss it here)
• Ready, Aim, Right! (collected columns by libertarian journalist Jack Criss–I discuss it here); and
• There’s a Government in Your Soup: Why There’s Too Much Government in Your Kitchen, and What You Can Do About It (by libertarian/LewRockweller chef Brad Edmonds–I reviewed it here)

As reported on the Mises blog, Volume 18, no. 2 (Spring 2004) of the Journal of Libertarian Studies features an exchange of views among Walter Block, Frank van Dun, and myself, regarding the foundations of libertarian jurisprudence. In particular, the issue contains my “Reply to Van Dun: Non-Aggression and Title Transfer” (a reply to “Against Libertarian Legalism”), as well as Walter Block’s reply, “Reply to ‘Against Libertarian Legalism’”, Van Dun’s response, “Natural Law and the Jurisprudence of Freedom,” and Block’s “Reply to Frank van Dun’s ‘Natural Law and the Jurisprudence of Freedom.’”

Man Mistakenly Cuts Off Penis, Dog Eats It

BUCHAREST (Reuters) – A elderly Romanian man mistook his penis for a chicken’s neck, cut it off and his dog rushed up and ate it, the state Rompres news agency said Monday.

It said 67 year-old Constantin Mocanu, from a village near the southeastern town of Galati, rushed out into his yard in his underwear to kill a noisy chicken keeping him awake at night.

“I confused it with the chicken’s neck,” Mocanu, who was admitted to the emergency hospital in Galati, was quoted as saying. “I cut it … and the dog rushed and ate it.”

Participated in this thread on anti-state.com, about whether those who hire a hitman or assassin are also liable. Discussion centers on causation and joint responsibility. Also includes discussion of why you can both recapture your property from a thief AND punish him.

The classic poem by Tyrone Greene, the prisoner character played by Eddie Murphy during his “Saturday Night Live” heyday:

Images by Tyrone Greene

Dark and lonely on a summer’s night.

Kill my landlord. Kill my landlord.

Watchdog barking. Do he bite?

Kill my landlord. Kill my landlord.

Slip in his window. Break his neck.

Then his house I start to wreck.

Got no reason. What the heck?

Kill my landlord. Kill my landlord.

C-I-L-L my land lord!

In response to this LewRockwell.com blog post, License to Breed (2), these replies and threads sprang up:

Replies: Re: License to Breed (Casey Khan), Re: License to Breed?
(Jesse Ogden), Re: License to Breed (Chris Dominguez)

Threads: Kinsella Wants to License Breeding (No Treason) and a thread on anti-state.com.
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Update: See License to Breed.

Update: Now updated at Hoppe and Kinsella on Immigration

In response to this LewRockwell.com blog post, Immigration Idea (2; about selling citizenship, and No Treason’s Chattering Punks), and Hoppe’s article on immigration, these threads sprang up (my reply: Palmer on Hoppe, Hoppe on Coase, and Re: Palmer on Hoppe):

• Stephan Kinsella Ought To Shut His Stupid Cake Hole (No Treason)
• Yet Another Problem With Hoppe’s Immigration Column (No Treason)
• Hoppe: “The best one may hope for…” (no-treason)
• Heroic market anarchist takes on market anarchist (Anti-State.com)
• Gary North, Lew Rockwell, and the Politics of Stoning Heretics and Homosexuals to Death (Tom Palmer)
• An Immigration Policy that Would Exclude Its Author (Tom Palmer)

Recent LewRockwell.com blog posts:

• Compulsory Kiwi Voting
• Creative Tax Avoidance
• Re: Lawyers: The Problem?
• The Sky is Falling! (looming budget gap of $72 trillion)
• Out of the Mouths of Babes (Montessori “Peace Table”)
• Betting on Bush
• Re: The Civil War (and its proper name)
• Re: On Reducing the Supreme Court’s Jurisdiction
• Re: Stalking and Threats as Aggression
• Anti-Semitism in America (re attorney who pretends to be Jewish)
• Terrorism and Photocopiers
• Self-hating neocons (on bizarre Wall Street Journal article saying “Don’t call me a “neocon” unless you are a friend”)
• Cato on Federalism
• Another Point for France (Income Tax Witholding)
• It’s Usually the Government’s Fault
• Badnarik to the Bone (and re nutjobs, conspiracy wackos, the Fed is “privately owned”, etc.)
• Re: Larouche Rockwell?
• Long on Anarchy, Short on Government
• Five Indispensable Tips for Law Students and New Lawyers
• Stop Writing Me About The Jews (on Fred Reed’s column, and conspiracy nutballs)
• Spam and a Cup of Sugar (on West U’s ordinance against door-to-door soliciting; and spam comments)
• Why Kerry Will Win
• De Jure Belli ac Pacis (Hugo Grotius’s On the Law of War and Peace online)
• A different sort of oligarch (aabout the capitalist Georgian minister of economics)

I’ve discovered you can pepper many sentences with “at least” to really change its meaning and annoy someone. For example, if you are going to walk the dogs and baby and the wife is upstairs, you could say, “Could you please drop the baby’s socks down?” or you could say, “Could you at least please drop the baby’s socks down?” The latter can really annoy someone.

Three comments.

1. There is a little town north of Houston, named Humble. For some reason it’s pronounced the Eliza Doolittle way, ‘umble. It’s disconcerting to hear Houston truckdrivers refer to ‘umble. I just can’t say it. I have to say Humble. It sounds like too much an affectation to say ‘umble.

2. In movies when someone finds dead body with the eyes open, they do this weird wave of the hand where the open hand closes they eyes. What the f*** is that? When were we supposed to have learned this trick, right after we catch flies with chopsticks?

3. This stock scene in movies is annoying: where a repressed or unable-to-state-their-true feelings repressed conservative Hollywood stereotype is hugged and is unable to return the hug… his hand sort of cups into an “I want to hug you” motion but just can’t complete it. What nauseous Hollywood crizzap. (Sorry, Jesse, I guess I’m still “bitter and hate-filled.”)

4. Just saw Angels in America. It makes me realize, liberal homosexuals think it’s all about them.

It is mind-boggling that there is not an easy way to convert a huge, memory-sucking color-scanned PDF file into a black and white file.