tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6108039387566684682024-03-18T05:47:37.282-04:00Todd SeaveyTODD SEAVEY
author of Libertarianism for Beginners and writer of/speaker about many other thingsTodd Seaveyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08589187886030112999noreply@blogger.comBlogger2036125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-610803938756668468.post-7307664564991733562018-10-03T11:51:00.003-04:002018-10-03T11:51:49.536-04:00Seavey on Splice and in Brown University's CrosshairsI’ve neglected this blog for a year while the action has continued on Facebook and Twitter -- and also on SpliceToday.com, where my latest weekly column ties into one of this blog’s earliest topics, my time at left-wing Brown University, where I have belatedly discovered <a href="https://www.splicetoday.com/politics-and-media/ivy-league-smears">activists (apparently) falsely accused me of a crime</a>.<br /><br />
(But check out <a href="https://www.splicetoday.com/authors/Todd%20Seavey">this archive of all my Splice columns</a>, and as always, buy everyone you know a copy of my short but thorough book <i><a href="https://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/libertarianism-for-beginners-todd-seavey/1122664331">Libertarianism for Beginners</a></i>.)Todd Seaveyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08589187886030112999noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-610803938756668468.post-48717021711041260262017-10-23T17:32:00.004-04:002017-10-24T05:17:38.688-04:00Ffffff Theatre!<div class="MsoNormal">
Some entertainment options worth considering in NYC,
especially for the politically-inclined, to keep you occupied while I am busy <i>offline</i> with a big project for a while (forgive
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•<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">FILMS:</b> SmashCut
CineFest features six short dramatic films with liberty themes, Tue., Oct. 24,
2017 from 6:30-9:30 (including post-screening Q&A). You can <a href="https://smashcut-newyork.eventbrite.com/?aff=todd">get VIP tickets here while they last</a>.<o:p></o:p></div>
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•<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">FERGUSON:</b> <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Ferguson</i> is a staged reenactment, not
based on media spin but using the actual witness transcripts, of the events
that sparked riots near St. Louis in 2014 and arguments about race and policing
thereafter. Scroll down <a href="https://www.indiegogo.com/projects/ferguson-the-play-world-premiere-in-nyc#/">at the right here to see your options including buying a ticket for the initial New York City run</a>.<o:p></o:p></div>
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•<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">THE FIGHT:</b> Playwright
Jonathan Leaf tackles another politically volatile moment in history with his
new play <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><a href="http://tix.smarttix.com/Modules/Sales/SalesMainTabsPage.aspx?ControlState=1&SalesEventId=6888&DC=">The Fight</a></i> about sometimes-ugly schisms in the mid-twentieth-century feminist
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•<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">THE FLEA:</b> In
November and December, the small but talented playwrights group <a href="https://www.thepoolplays.org/">The Pool</a> puts on productions such as Lynn Rosen’s <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Washed Up on the Potomac</i> at the Flea Theater (20 Thomas St.). I
don’t know if they have actual political connections, but I’ve got photographic
evidence the group’s launch party was in a hip-looking apartment.<br />
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•<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">THE FOUNTAINHEAD:</b>
I can only imagine what the Toneelgroep Amsterdam is going to do to reinvent
Ayn Rand’s <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">The Fountainhead</i> as <a href="https://www.bam.org/theater/2017/thefountainhead">a deconstructionist stage production</a> at the Brooklyn Academy of Music, but I will risk finding out. <o:p></o:p></div>
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•<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight: normal;">THE FUTURE:</b> I
will also one day soon enough host real-world events of my own again. In the
meantime look for <a href="https://www.splicetoday.com/authors/Todd%20Seavey">my weekly columns on Splice Today</a>. Eventually, I will reemerge with that ten-part, 10,000-word blog essay I
promised to put on ToddSeavey.com and more. (And of course: please read <a href="http://www.amazon.com/Libertarianism-For-Beginners-Todd-Seavey/dp/1939994667">my book</a>.) <o:p></o:p></div>
Todd Seaveyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08589187886030112999noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-610803938756668468.post-62141558975982064362017-05-18T14:23:00.003-04:002017-05-18T14:27:04.068-04:00Better Luck Next Quarter-Century<div class="p1">
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(A) the guy who founded Fox News back in that decade, Roger Ailes, has also died, rendering still more obsolete my insider perspective on what an insane company he built,</div>
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(E) as of this week (as teased in a Flash story) we also know that Geoff Johns, who got his start writing for DC Comics back in that decade and has since become DC's co-president, is going to write a rather self-indulgent-sounding comics miniseries called <i>Doomsday Clock</i>, apparently pitting dark Dr. Manhattan from <i>Watchmen</i> against optimistic Superman and perhaps against DC time/continuity itself.</div>
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It's as if everything that happened between the last episode of <i>Twin Peaks</i> and the next one is a twenty-six-year "wash," if you ask me (and for me it all went by like a busy long weekend, or perhaps a dreamlike timeloop), so maybe I'll shut up for a while -- or at least avoid online sniping and stick to longer, more thoughtful pieces (coming soon in real magazines, most likely) -- ones that take a more serious stab at increasing the odds of the <i>next</i> quarter-century or so being sane. Yeah, well, we'll see how it goes.</div>
Todd Seaveyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08589187886030112999noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-610803938756668468.post-86286985787366143212017-01-27T16:06:00.003-05:002017-01-27T16:06:57.130-05:00Seavey on Refinery29The fashion site Refinery29.com did a two-minute video (posted Jan. 20, 2017) of people of varied political persuasions getting along well enough to have a beer, and I’m just pleased that <a href="http://www.refinery29.com/2017/01/137155/liberal-conservative-voters-agreeing">I’m identified as a “libertarian anarcho-capitalist” in my brief appearance near the end</a>. (Read more about that in my book, needless to say.)Todd Seaveyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08589187886030112999noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-610803938756668468.post-32095485045666167202016-07-20T16:52:00.005-04:002016-07-21T13:15:48.092-04:00Seavey on Radio Again. Plus Trump, Ailes, Milo, Anarchists!<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Seventeen quick thoughts (each with a link) as we survey the
end of the post-Cold War Republican Party.</div>
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•TRUMP: IN. This week <a href="http://www.politico.com/story/2016/07/never-trump-delegates-have-support-needed-to-force-rules-vote-225716">might look like “anarchy” (in the loose colloquial sense) at the Republican National Convention</a>, but yesterday, the day of Trump’s official nomination, was also the
twentieth anniversary of an important (and schismatic) date in the history of real
anarchism, as I’ll explain below. In this year when the presidential nominee of
one major U.S. political party dabbles in conspiracy theorizing about Obama’s
birth, 9/11, and the JFK assassination, while the nominee of the other major
party promises UFO disclosure, anarchism should not be dismissed as the
weirdest branch of U.S. politics anymore. It may prove a more fruitful avenue
of future intellectual inquiry than were conservatism and liberalism, in any
case. <o:p></o:p></div>
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•JOHNSON: SERIOUS. Meanwhile, <a href="https://johnsonweld.com/">the candidate of the Libertarian Party, which most years is seen as having a weirder candidate</a> than the two major parties, avoids conspiracy theories and merely jokes
that having been a successful two-term governor of New Mexico gave him a chance
to see the “alien to work” program near Roswell. Obviously, if you’re voting,
you have to vote for him. <o:p></o:p></div>
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•AILES: OUT. Speaking of twentieth anniversaries, we’re just
a few months from the October 7 twentieth anniversary of Fox News’s launch, and
<a href="http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2016/07/murdochs-have-decided-to-remove-roger-ailes.html">it now appears that Roger Ailes may not be there to celebrate</a>. Having worked there briefly, I’ll be very curious whether the culture at
the place changes now. <o:p></o:p></div>
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•MILO: BANNED. Again, we libertarians are not necessarily
inclined to conspiracy theory, but it’s an awfully odd coincidence that
yesterday appeared to bring Trump’s triumph, Ailes’ possible end, and Trump-supporting
Milo Yiannopoulos’s lifetime banning from Twitter. It was his mockery of
actress Leslie Jones that did it, apparently, so he’s been taken down by the
Ghostbusters, just like Gozer (or <a href="http://qz.com/519388/this-saudi-prince-now-owns-more-of-twitter-than-jack-dorsey-does/">perhaps that just served as a timely excuse for the left/black/Muslim-sympathizing culture at Twitter</a>). He now becomes only the second person, to my knowledge, who is banned for
life from Twitter -- and I’m friends with <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ONujNKx0ScA">the other one</a> because I know good
people. <o:p></o:p></div>
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•VIKINGS: BLACK. I wish people would just stay off the
volatile topics of race and religion, but if you ask me, the real ethno-hubbub
on the pop culture horizon is <a href="http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/films/news/thor-ragnarok-director-taika-waititi-on-why-casting-tessa-thompson-as-valkyrie-isnt-a-big-deal-a7142756.html">the portrayal of an honest to gosh Norse Valkyrie goddess by a black woman</a> in next year’s Thor movie. That should be a real test
of self-control for the pagan-leaning racist elements of the alt-right. You
heard it here first: <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Ragnarok</i> arrives
Nov. 3, 2017. <o:p></o:p></div>
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•DAILY SHOW: ASSAULTING. But don’t assume it’s the Milos of
the world who cause all the trouble. It was Daily Show staffers who were
<a href="http://www.breitbart.com/california/2016/07/20/the-daily-show-gays-for-trump-breitbart-news/">accused of shoving a reporter at a Milo-instigated gay party at the Republican National Convention, so who are the fascists, really</a>? <o:p></o:p></div>
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•DENTON: BANKRUPT. Financially, I mean, not just morally. Or
<a href="http://nypost.com/2016/07/19/nick-denton-gawker-is-falling-apart-and-im-nearly-bankrupt/">so the Gawker founder claims</a>. <o:p></o:p></div>
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•HAUSAM: INTERVIEWING. Me, that is. <a href="http://hausrules.us/7-11-continued-lamntx-fall-out-and-libertarian-writer-todd-seavey">Mike Hausam had me on his California radio show on July 11, 2016 to talk about my book and libertarianism generally</a>. <o:p></o:p></div>
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•ANARCHISTS: DIVIDED. Even Hausam, a libertarian, stumbled
for a moment at the unfortunate, obscure label for libertarians of my specific
philosophical type – “anarcho-capitalists” -- but the traditional, left-leaning
anarchists know (and mostly hate) us, at least. In fact, because time flies,
yesterday was the twentieth anniversary of <a href="http://anarchism.pageabode.com/afaq/index.html">An Anarchist FAQ</a>, the first major stab at an official online explanation of anarchism, and it was
largely created by old-fashioned anarchists to <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">distance</i> themselves from anarcho-capitalists like me who think
<i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">libertarianism and capitalism</i> are
more logical expressions of anarchist sentiment than <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">egalitarianism and socialism</i> are. Nice to be noticed, though. <o:p></o:p></div>
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•PUNK: CONFUSING. You should also take note of the fact that
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the same person as <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cMOAXm94VWo">Fugazi singer Ian MacKaye</a>, though it'd be kinda cool if they were the same person, and I'm sure this
has led to confusion at some point. <o:p></o:p></div>
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•SILVERSTEINS: COMMONPLACE. There’s also, by the way, both a
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•SEAVEY: SPECIAL. Maybe I can’t quite call myself an
anarchist without creating confusion, since I believe we need property rights, as
explained in my book <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;"><a href="https://www.amazon.com/Libertarianism-Beginners-Todd-Seavey/dp/1939994667">Libertarianism for Beginners</a></i>. What I lack in willingness to ditch all moral and commercial rules
alongside the eminently ditchable government, though, I make up for with a
thoroughgoing skepticism useful against advertisers, priests, unreflective
traditionalists, shallow fellow skeptics, and even you if you say something
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•CAPITALISM: AMBIGUOUS. As if it weren’t confusing enough
that people argue about who qualifies as an anarchist, anarchists in turn argue
about how to define “capitalism” and whether that terminology in turn affects
collaboration among anarchists. <a href="http://www.counterpunch.org/2015/10/16/who-is-a-capitalist/">This article</a> brought to my attention by Camilo Gomez is a fairer than usual summary of
the “capitalism”/“markets” distinction that is important to some left-leaning
anarcho-capitalists in particular (though in these situations, I usually urge
just adopting new terms or agreeing upon clarified old ones instead of wallowing
in the ambiguity and the linguistic tug-o-wars). <o:p></o:p></div>
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•DEMOCRATS: OVERRATED. To those of you too easily convinced
that infighting among anarchists, libertarians, or Republicans proves the
Democrats, who are gathering at their own convention next week, are <a href="http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2016/07/tracking-the-clinton-controversies-from-whitewater-to-benghazi/396182/">the smart, sane ones</a>, I will just note that despite the great job the Democrats do of convincing
themselves that rational, well-educated people lean Democrat, the majority of
college-educated whites (for whatever little it’s worth) haven’t voted Democrat
for president in the sixty years since demographic polling of that sort started
tracking such things, despite how things may look if you inhabit some lefty
college town bubble. In fact, Bush was the first Republican presidential candidate
to get a bigger share of the non-college-educated than Democratic rivals, not
necessarily something to be proud of, and Trump may well lock up the downright-stupid
vote this year -- to the Republicans’ long-term regret, I suspect. <o:p></o:p></div>
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•DEATH: AMERICAN. While we debate these nuances, of course, some
of our most broadly shared, bipartisan policy ideas <a href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/07/19/us-air-strike-in-syria-kills-up-to-85-civilians-mistaken-for-isi/">kill people overseas</a>, reason enough to question whether either major party is worth keeping
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•CONSCIOUSNESS: IN. Perhaps sanity will be easier to find at
<a href="http://www.empiricistleague.com/2016/06/22/july-20-2016-consciousness/">the science lectures I’m attending tonight at 7:30 at Union Hall in Brooklyn, hosted by my friend Lefty</a>. And if you e-mail me RIGHT NOW, you could use that second ticket I’ll be
carrying with me (or I’ll just read brainy Marc E. Fitch’s crime novel <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Dirty Water</i> as I ride the subway alone).
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•EVENTS: REAL. I swear I will also host real-world events of
my own again very soon, as promised, even if it means I post stuff online much less
often. <a href="http://quicksilber.blogspot.com/2016/07/the-gop-has-not-hit-bottom-yet.html">Here’s a recent blog post by Kenneth Silber about one old bar debate I organized, which is still echoing in his mind and, for good or ill, echoing across the political spectrum in these troubled times. Sob.</a> I will try to fix everything soon. It‘s what I do. <o:p></o:p></div>
Todd Seaveyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08589187886030112999noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-610803938756668468.post-20867773879747266142016-07-15T18:18:00.004-04:002016-07-15T18:18:36.650-04:00Stossel on Seavey Book (world on fire)<div class="MsoNormal">
I’m pleased John Stossel, who wrote the foreword to my book <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Libertarianism for Beginners</i>, also <a href="http://reason.com/archives/2016/07/06/libertarianism-for-beginners">wrotea column</a> about the book. (And remember that <a href="http://www.johnnyrocketlaunchpad.com/johnny-rocket-launch-pad-episode-96-todd-seavey.html">you can hear me talk about the book bylistening to my now-archived July 1, 2016 appearance</a> on radio show <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Johnny Rocket Launch
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With so <a href="http://www.mediaite.com/online/here-are-the-7-most-shocking-claims-in-gretchen-carlsons-complaint-against-foxs-roger-ailes/">few non-leftist media outlets</a> -- and the journalists of the future being t<a href="http://thefederalist.com/2016/07/05/im-shocked-shocked-to-find-liberal-bias-at-this-major-journalism-conference/">rained by aptly-named groupslike IRE to hate guns and others things the left disdains</a> as though hating is objective journalism -- I need all the allies I can
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Not that I’m suggesting the right is much better than the
left these days. If Clinton is basically <a href="https://www.facebook.com/beingalibertarian/photos/a.256552551217454.1073741829.246976735508369/517569688449071/?type=3&theater">a corrupt lawyer</a> (“cleared” by the FBI only after her hubby’s meeting with the Attorney General
that was never supposed to become public knowledge), then Trump is like a drunk,
ornery uncle who knows he hates that lawyer but will never be able to
articulate anything like a conservative or libertarian alternative to her. At
least the UK, newly free of the EU, gets a female head of state and a coherent
conservative in one fell swoop. Doesn’t solve all problems, but looks enviable
from the U.S. perspective right about now. <o:p></o:p></div>
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Win or lose, I just hope that if people vote in November --
I say if -- they vote Libertarian, even if only in protest. Come on, don’t be a
jerk. You’ve gotta. <o:p></o:p></div>
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As for how on Earth I maintained a slight hope for years
that the Republican Party would become more libertarian, please recall that
(for example) three years ago there was <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">one</i>
senator who opposed the confirmation of Comey as FBI director, the confirmation
that would enable Comey to let Clinton off the hook three years later, and <a href="http://m.washingtontimes.com/news/2013/jul/29/sen-rand-paul-is-lone-dissenter-as-james-comey-con/#!">thatone senator was libertarian-leaning Republican Rand Paul</a>. He also opposed Loretta Lynch becoming attorney general due to her
drug-warrior contempt for due process. Principled people have a way of ending
up looking like prophets. <o:p></o:p></div>
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Ah, well, but best I forget about Paul and other GOP gambits.
Now we’re stuck with Trump and/or Clinton -- though <a href="http://www.caintv.com/theory-under-orders-to-let-hil">some think Comey tried hisdarnedest to stealth-sink Clinton</a> even as he was “exonerating” her. It‘s a complex world. <o:p></o:p></div>
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Law enforcers disappoint us at times (witness <a href="https://www.facebook.com/StoryCorps/videos/10154305580748622/">this animatedguide to cop-related killings</a>, which is more educational than the selfie that Clinton-supporter Mischa
Barton took showing herself in a bikini purportedly being sad about excessive
police force). I do not quite qualify as a full-fledged anarchist in the
traditional sense of the word, though, as I still prefer the orderly rule of
law to chaos. Perhaps my all-time favorite instance of U.S. law having a long
and long-delayed reach yet still being respected was the ratification of the
constitutional amendment limiting congressional pay raises -- 202 years after
it was proposed during the very first Congress, back in 1789. History will come
for the real criminals eventually, and it’s sweet when it does. <o:p></o:p></div>
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In the meantime, to make clear I am no mere partisan, let me
say clearly that cops get away with crimes, gangs get away with crimes,
Clintons get away with crimes -- and similar groups overseas get away with even
worse crimes. Be the kind of person who can be trusted to oppose all of it,
consistently. And do check out <a href="https://www.amazon.com/Libertarianism-Beginners-Todd-Seavey/dp/1939994667">that book of mine</a> if you’re looking for a consistent set of principles to adopt. <o:p></o:p></div>
Todd Seaveyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08589187886030112999noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-610803938756668468.post-62919188730666105032016-07-04T09:52:00.001-04:002016-07-04T10:29:39.300-04:00Seavey Does Libertarianism Rockabilly Style<div class="MsoNormal">
Celebrate July Fourth (at any time) the rockabilly way, <a href="http://www.johnnyrocketlaunchpad.com/johnny-rocket-launch-pad-episode-96-todd-seavey.html">by listening to me</a> --
Todd Seavey, author of <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Libertarianism for
Beginners</i> -- interviewed by hosts Johnny Rocket, Heather Nixon, and Curt
Nelson on the radio show <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Johnny Rocket
Launch Pad</i>. (From 44 minutes through 56 minutes in is the “lightning round”
where you hear how quickly I can answer random questions, all the more reason
to have me on your show/stage/campus/panel as well.) <o:p></o:p></div>
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You may also hear Cab Calloway, the Police, the Animals,
Stray Cats, and Del Shannon, as I constantly do in my head. And yes, at 40
minutes in you’ll find my notorious and now recurring karaoke rendition of
“Rainbow Connection.” I did Kermit for Gavin McInnes and Amy Schumer; it would
be unfair not to do him for the legendary <i style="mso-bidi-font-style: normal;">Johnny
Rocket Launch Pad</i> show. <o:p></o:p><br />
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P.S. Rock and roll addendum: you’ll also find me quoted about the David Bowie song “Oh! You Pretty Things” in <a href="http://thefederalist.com/2016/07/03/we-can-be-heroes-15-david-bowie-songs-of-individualism/">this article by Robert Lurie on TheFederalist</a>.</div>
Todd Seaveyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08589187886030112999noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-610803938756668468.post-76880424853955050642016-07-01T10:19:00.001-04:002016-07-01T10:19:10.677-04:00“Libertarianism for Later” by Todd Seavey on SpliceTodayIn <a href="http://www.splicetoday.com/politics-and-media/libertarianism-for-later">my final SpliceToday column</a> (for now) after a full year of daily columns, I admit which parts of the contemporary libertarian movement I think are dumbest but also link to a fine Gary Johnson/William Weld 2016 campaign ad and to info on my appearance on the <i>Johnny Rocket Launch Pad</i> rockabilly libertarian radio show (on which I once more do “Rainbow Connection”).<br /><br />Other cool things coming soon.Todd Seaveyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08589187886030112999noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-610803938756668468.post-80994852606712139842016-06-30T10:48:00.001-04:002016-06-30T10:48:31.892-04:00“Future Shock vs. Rationalia” by Todd Seavey on SpliceTodayDespite the endless temptation people from Alvin Toffler and Newt Gingrich to Neil deGrasse Tyson and Alex Jones feel to predict the future, <a href="http://www.splicetoday.com/politics-and-media/future-shock-vs-rationalia">political pundits should probably avoid that game, I write in today’s column</a>.Todd Seaveyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08589187886030112999noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-610803938756668468.post-12213466388902812422016-06-29T10:46:00.004-04:002016-06-29T10:46:57.232-04:00“The Great Space Racism” by Todd Seavey on SpliceTodayFrom Star Trek’s Khan to Buck Rogers’ Kane to the Simpsons’ Kang, a lineage of racism has given us some fine science fiction, <a href="http://www.splicetoday.com/pop-culture/the-great-space-racism">as I explain in today’s column</a>.Todd Seaveyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08589187886030112999noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-610803938756668468.post-46901498466907902562016-06-28T10:58:00.001-04:002016-06-28T10:58:09.867-04:00“Spock Is Evil: He Killed Two Star Trek Worlds” by Todd Seavey on SpliceTodayThere is only one way to make sense of what J.J. Abrams did to the original Star Trek timeline and what he did to the “Kelvin timeline” from the current films: <a href="http://www.splicetoday.com/politics-and-media/spock-is-evil">As I explain in today’s column, it really was all part of Spock’s evil plan</a>.Todd Seaveyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08589187886030112999noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-610803938756668468.post-30405282153640506422016-06-27T10:20:00.004-04:002016-06-27T10:20:22.319-04:00“Independence Day: Revisions” by Todd Seavey on SpliceTodayThe pattern I’ve noted of Roland Emmerich’s film projects warning us that space aliens may be tied to climate change continues, even in a little bit of the spectacular-yet-slightly-bland <i>Independence Day: Resurgence</i>, <a href="http://www.splicetoday.com/pop-culture/independence-day-revisions">as I write in today’s column</a>.Todd Seaveyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08589187886030112999noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-610803938756668468.post-24417632722070631982016-06-24T10:41:00.002-04:002016-06-24T10:41:58.085-04:00“Brexit Until You Wrecks It” by Todd Seavey on SpliceTodayPrior to my final week of daily columns on SpliceToday, <a href="http://www.splicetoday.com/politics-and-media/brexit-until-you-wrecks-it">I pause to write a celebration of Brexit</a>.Todd Seaveyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08589187886030112999noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-610803938756668468.post-22809114264498052462016-06-23T11:56:00.002-04:002016-06-23T11:56:24.308-04:00“Network of Empaths” by Todd Seavey on SpliceTodayWe would do well to stop denying the fact that the sociopaths and jerks tend to get on top in politics, media, business, and social life -- <a href="http://www.splicetoday.com/politics-and-media/network-of-empaths">but in the long run, empaths may have a built-in advantage, I write</a>.Todd Seaveyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08589187886030112999noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-610803938756668468.post-12639298883467084582016-06-22T10:16:00.002-04:002016-06-22T10:16:50.550-04:00“Doomed Gatekeepers” by Todd Seavey on SpliceTodayFor all its flaws, the twenty-first century is clearly an era in which no small handful of celebrities, politicians, or moguls can hope to maintain its monopoly on power for long, thank goodness, <a href="http://www.splicetoday.com/politics-and-media/doomed-gatekeepers">as I write in today’s column, optimistic even as new details on Michael Jackson’s crimes and politicians’ lies come to light</a>.Todd Seaveyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08589187886030112999noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-610803938756668468.post-90024982020521283932016-06-21T10:35:00.002-04:002016-06-21T10:35:58.428-04:00“Wrong from the Beginning” by Todd Seavey on SpliceTodayI find that unlike conservatives and liberals, who usually started out that way, <a href="http://www.splicetoday.com/politics-and-media/wrong-from-the-beginning">nearly every libertarian has an origin story, as I say in today’s column</a>.Todd Seaveyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08589187886030112999noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-610803938756668468.post-15453640723488480652016-06-20T10:30:00.002-04:002016-06-20T10:30:45.245-04:00“Don't Burn It All Down” by Todd Seavey on SpliceTodayFrom psycho gunmen to Trump fans and the alt-right, <a href="http://www.splicetoday.com/politics-and-media/don-t-burn-it-all-down">we are surrounded by nihilists, I fear in today’s column</a>.Todd Seaveyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08589187886030112999noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-610803938756668468.post-87613780156136580672016-06-17T10:45:00.001-04:002016-06-17T10:45:53.406-04:00“Bourne to Lose, Destined to Fail” by Todd Seavey on SpliceTodayMore government, clamor the frightened masses when things like Orlando happen, but arming yourself and running away from the government -- the way Jason Bourne does -- is <a href="http://www.splicetoday.com/politics-and-media/bourne-to-lose-destined-to-fail">probably the more rational course of action, you must at some point admit, as I suggest in today’s column</a>.Todd Seaveyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08589187886030112999noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-610803938756668468.post-61260874143373823582016-06-16T09:45:00.001-04:002016-06-16T09:45:12.176-04:00“Goofballs and Their Media” by Todd Seavey on SpliceTodayPeople will say dumb things, whether it’s Gersh Kuntzman fearing the experience of firing an AR-15 or NPR being baffled about why Venezuela’s economy is dying, but <a href="http://www.splicetoday.com/politics-and-media/goofballs-and-their-media">in today’s column I say I still prefer stupid squabbling to the impulse to censor</a>.Todd Seaveyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08589187886030112999noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-610803938756668468.post-47880731714642758692016-06-15T10:13:00.002-04:002016-06-15T10:13:30.248-04:00“Bernie Sanders Would Sell Well” by Todd Seavey on SpliceTodayIn today’s column, I note that Bernie Sanders would fare better in the diverse world of the marketplace, given all the supporters he has, than he will in <a href="http://www.splicetoday.com/politics-and-media/bernie-sanders-would-sell-well">the winner-take-all nasty world of democratic politics that he irrationally promotes</a>.Todd Seaveyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08589187886030112999noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-610803938756668468.post-11048435139046828292016-06-14T10:53:00.001-04:002016-06-14T10:53:33.450-04:00“More Trans Than Transhuman” by Todd Seavey on SpliceTodayI’ve been saying for a decade on this blog that the final battle may be between jihadists and transgender cyborgs, and <a href="http://www.splicetoday.com/politics-and-media/more-trans-than-transhuman">I revisit that notion in today’s column in the wake of Orlando</a>.Todd Seaveyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08589187886030112999noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-610803938756668468.post-18962577014730108972016-06-13T10:58:00.000-04:002016-06-13T10:58:00.783-04:00“Some Johnson in Your Mitt” by Todd Seavey on SpliceTodayIf there must be an establishment -- and there will be one of some sort or another -- and it looks anything like Mitt Romney, I say in today’s column: <a href="http://www.splicetoday.com/politics-and-media/some-johnson-in-your-mitt">be pleased by the strategic opportunity presented if he and others like him vote for Gary Johnson</a>.Todd Seaveyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08589187886030112999noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-610803938756668468.post-37442211150308009462016-06-11T17:35:00.004-04:002016-06-11T17:35:37.696-04:00DC Comics’ New 52 and Rebirth: A Corporate 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For what it's worth, one disturbingly simple way to explain half the strange DC Comics Universe events of the past five years might be to assume that harried comics writer Geoff Johns was told by a studio exec, "We want to have a Wonder Woman reveal in the movie, prefigured in the comics, about one of her relatives being evil. Just make it so that her father is an evil god or the evil New God or one of the evil New Gods or that she has an evil sister or an evil duplicate from Themyscira or an evil duplicate from another universe or an evil daughter from another universe or an evil brother or her duplicate from the other universe has an evil son or her duplicate from Themyscira has an evil son or the son is the evil New God or the son is Luthor's child or is a duplicate of Luthor."</div>
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To which Johns said, "Uhhh."</div>
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And the executive said, "You have to do all that."</div>
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And they did. They actually, literally did. All of it. All the rest may be mere side effects.</div>
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And then Johns went insane, like Chinese scholars asked to adhere to contradictory edicts during the Cultural Revolution. And later, when there was a tiny shift in the corporate power structure, he decided to kill several characters and depict two of director Zack Snyder's favorite characters as cruel gods toying with the cosmos.</div>
Todd Seaveyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08589187886030112999noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-610803938756668468.post-33290035667255604002016-06-10T10:58:00.001-04:002016-06-10T10:58:10.814-04:00“Separating Hitchens Frum Taunton” by Todd Seavey on SpliceTodayGive religion an inch, I write in today’s column, <a href="http://www.splicetoday.com/politics-and-media/separating-hitchens-frum-taunton">it takes your brain</a>.Todd Seaveyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08589187886030112999noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-610803938756668468.post-25761982249619094382016-06-09T11:02:00.002-04:002016-06-09T11:02:17.140-04:00“Utopia 500 vs. Dada 100” by Todd Seavey on SpliceTodayWith the Armory a few blocks from me filled with films of people defecating and vomiting in the name of art right now, it is an apt time to mark the 500th anniversary of the novel <i>Utopia</i> and the 100th anniversary of the Dadaist art movement, <a href="http://www.splicetoday.com/politics-and-media/utopia-500-vs-dada-100-31a8aae0-5929-4368-bf3f-8177585b2df8">as I do in today’s column</a>.Todd Seaveyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08589187886030112999noreply@blogger.com0