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Reading _Never Caught: The Washingtons' Relentless Pursuit of Their Runaway Slave Ona Judge_. Ona Judge could be considered a proto-Free Stater. She fled to New Hampshire to escape the POTUS's power and found a community of like-minded people here.

New on my blog: Why people like to ban _To Kill a Mockingbird_. https://garymcgath.com/wp/to-kill-a-mockingbird/

Anyone remember when breastfeeding was the One True Way and formula was evil? https://www.thefreelibrary.com/The+youngest+market%3a+baby+food+peddlers+undermine+breastfeeding.-a0182081205

A particularly insightful Jesus and Mo. Today, "non-binary" often means "failing to conform to sexual stereotypes." https://www.jesusandmo.net/comic/folks/

Tariffs, protectionism, and overregulation led to a shortage of food for babies in the US, something which would have been incredible a couple of years ago. Biden's response is to expand government power. https://www.cnn.com/2022/05/18/politics/biden-defense-production-act-baby-formula/index.html

Bush inadvertently admits to the "wholly unjustified and brutal invasion of Iraq." https://www.euronews.com/2022/05/19/gaffe-as-george-w-bush-slams-russia-s-wholly-unjustified-and-brutal-invasion-of-iraq

Mailchimp collects a _lot_ of information on you when you open its mail as HTML. Don't believe me? Let them tell you. https://mailchimp.com/help/reports/

I wish everyone who claims the name "libertarian" would read this. http://www.flawedjewel.com/activism/libertarians-we-have-a-problem/

A new review of _Spells of War_. https://cellio.dreamwidth.org/2111337.html?view=15340393

The only explanation I can think of for Louisiana HB 813 is pure murderous malice. https://legiscan.com/LA/text/HB813/id/2549012

Attorney General's office brings out the old lie that there's a "hate speech" exception to the First Amendment. https://www.boston.com/news/local-news/2022/05/04/racist-emails-black-student-groups-umass-amherst/

Libertarians should be telling the pro-choice world that the doctrine of unlimited government power has led to the possible downfall of Roe v. Wade and that they need to adopt a strong pro-individual rights position. What I'm mostly seeing is "If you didn't support Freedom X, don't claim you support bodily autonomy." How does making people more consistent statists help?

About 15 years ago I reached the level of competence where Germans accepted my German and didn't switch to English. This year, for the first time, I had the sense they _assumed_ I could speak German and weren't merely tolerating my efforts.

Maybe I shouldn't have made this trip to Germany, but you have to do something crazy occasionally.

Almost got blindsided by this one. The US requires a negative COVID test not more than a day before getting on a plane to go back to the US. They apparently don't care if you make people sick on the way out, just coming back.

I'm getting to really like NH Journal. https://nhjournal.com/from-vaccines-to-banks-n-h-sees-misguided-efforts-to-restrict-freedom-in-the-name-of-liberty/

Many people leaving Twitter, many coming back. It's all fine if they end up where they want to be. I've revived my account: https://twitter.com/GaryM03062