NY-NJ-Area Reasonoids: Nick Gillespie Talking about The Declaration of Independents on Monday, April 25 at Bergen Community College

Reason's Nick Gillespie will appear at Bergen Community College in Paramus, New Jersey on Monday, April 25 at 1.45PM.

The talk is free and open to the public and will take place at BCC's Ciccone Theater.

Gillespie, co-author with Matt Welch of the forthcoming book The Declaration of Independents: How Libertarian Politics Can Fix What's Wrong with America, will speak about "The Libertarian Moment: Why The Future Belongs to Free Minds & Free Markets."

A frequent guest on CNN, Fox, NPR, and other networks, Gillespie is the editor in chief of Reason.com and Reason.tv. He is a two-time finalist for digital National Magazine Awards, served as editor of Reason magazine from 2000 to 2008, and is almost certainly the only living journalist who has interviewed Nobel Prize winner Milton Friedman and rock star Ozzy Osbourne.

In 1996, Gillespie received his Ph.D. in English literature from the State University of New York at Buffalo. He also holds an M.A. in English with a concentration in creative writing from Temple University and a B.A. in English and Psychology from Rutgers University. Gillespie, the father of two sons, lives in Washington, DC, and Oxford, Ohio. For more information about Gillespie, go here.

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[Free2Booze]

In 1996, Gillespie received his Ph.D. in English literature from the State University of New York at Buffalo

I wonder if Nick gas ever tried a garbage plate?

[Free2Booze]

Ummmm... "has" not "gas". Although, that would describe the garbage plate experience.

[sloopyinca]

Uhots? The only reason to visit that desolate shithole of a town.

[Free2Booze]

No, I'm talking the original garbage plate from Nick Tahou's. Yes, it is located in Rochester, but I have yet to meet anyone from the Buffalo area who hasn't made the trip.

[DJF]

We don't care when he got his PHD, we want to know when he got the jacket? Was he born with it, did he win it in battle against evil statists, did the Lady of the Lake, her arm clad in the purest shimmering samite held aloft the Jacket from the bosom of the water, signifying by divine providence that he , Nick, was to wear the Jacket.

[sloopyinca]

Listen. Strange women lying in ponds distributing outerwear is no way to pick a senior editor. Supreme editorial authority derives from a boardroom, not from some farcical aquatic ceremony.

[DJF]

Be quiet!

[sloopyinca]

Well, but you can't expect to wield supreme executive power just 'cause some watery tart threw a leather jacket at you!

[DJF]

Shut up!

[sloopyinca]

I mean, if I went 'round saying I was an editor just because some moistened bint had lobbed a leather jacket at me, they'd put me away!

[DJF]

(Grabbing him by the collar)
Shut up, will you. Shut up!

[sloopyinca]

Help! Help! I'm being repressed. Come and see the violence inherent in the system. Come and see the violence inherent in the system.

[Barack Obama]

Bloody Peasant!!!

[sloopyinca]

^^Perfect^^

[Hugh Akston]

In 1996, Gillespie received his Ph.D. in English literature from the State University of New York at Buffalo.

That also explains the alt-text for the book cover.

[9/11 Birther]

George Bush orchestrated the 9/11 attacks in order to hide Barack Obama's Kenyan birth.

[JD]

George Bush orchestrated the 9/11 attacks in order to hide Barack Obama's Kenyan Keynsian birth.

FTFY

[Tulpa]

Speaking of Buffalo:

Lying on his family room floor with assault weapons trained on him, shouts of "pedophile!" and "pornographer!" stinging like his fresh cuts and bruises, the Buffalo homeowner didn't need long to figure out the reason for the early morning wake-up call from a swarm of federal agents.

That new wireless router. He'd gotten fed up trying to set a password. Someone must have used his Internet connection, he thought.

"We know who you are! You downloaded thousands of images at 11:30 last night," the man's lawyer, Barry Covert, recounted the agents saying. They referred to a screen name, "Doldrum."

[...]

Law enforcement officials say the case is a cautionary tale. Their advice: Password-protect your wireless router.

Yeah, that's the caution I got from this story. Have we dispensed with even the fig-leaf "officer safety" justification for SWAT teams now? Were they afraid that the kiddie porn fiend was going to masturbate on them or something?

[Hugh Akston]

He might have molested them. Better safe than sorry.

[sloopyinca]

Before you jump to this guy's defense, you need to read the whole story.

FTA: For two hours that March morning in Buffalo, agents tapped away at the homeowner's desktop computer, eventually taking it with them, along with his and his wife's iPads and iPhones.

Any person who would buy two iPads and two iPhones deserves a beatdown, a shot dog and constant derision from not only law enforcement, but from every man, woman and child on the face of the earth. If his (unnamed) desktop computer was an iMac, then he deserved summary execution.

[Tulpa]

Phew, I only have two Mac minis, so my rectal integrity has not been forfeited.

[Episiarch]

Sorry, buddy, but Mac minis are punishable by 20 years hard labor.

[Tulpa]

Does it help if only one of them has a PowerPC processor?

[sloopyinca]

Up against the wall, motherfucker! Stop resisting!

[JW]

No, that only makes it worse.

Well, maybe not on, further reflection. Now that the guts of Macs are made from common, commodity bin parts, instead of lovingly layered down atom-by-atom, over a pure, crystalline structure that was harvested only from the stem cells of menstrual blood of Himalayan virgins expelled during the years's first new moon and rinsed only with progenic water from deep within the Earth's core that hasn't been exposed to the surface in over 1 billion years, only makes the MacSnob Mage-level douchebag behavior all the more insufferable.

So, you're good. This time.

[Amakudari]

However, such a high number of Macs in the house correlates positively with physical frailty and decreased libido, thus eliminating the need for a SWAT team and possibly the investigation itself.

[sloopyinca]

Haha. Never looked at it that way.

I wonder how HG Wells was able to conceive the Eloi without having heard of the iPod or the MacBook.

[JW]

So this.

[Bingo]

Who knew that the brand of consumer electronics someone chose could elicit such strong opinions.

[Tulpa dba Nero]

Apple Computer was a great company. But that was another life.

[Spiny Norman]

TSA is looking for people with those skills.

[Tricia]

God Bless those courageous first responders keeping the Homeland Secure.
Those cuts and bruises should teach "Mr.Perv" to secure his wireless.

[Butts Wagner]

was going to masturbate on them or something?

I thought everyone's ejaculate was a yet to be identified super strong acid that melts the skin off of anyone who touches it....

....Oh god dammit you guys!

[Free2Booze]

Silver lining: At least they didn't roll in with a tank.

[sloopyinca]

I guess Mr. Seagal couldn't break free from his busy cockfight-busting and sexual harassment schedule to be there.

[Free2Booze]

A lesser man would have required air support. Never underestimate the roosters savagery.

[Rrabbit]

"Declaration of Indpedents"??? Ever heard of a sbeling tchegger?

[Jamews Taylor]

lol should be interesting to see how that turns out.

http://www.complete-privacy.au.tc

[Alan Vanneman]

A typo in the headline (I guess it's a po-mo thing), along with Nick's boiler-plate cv. Best post today!

[Declaration of...]

..indie pedants.

[PM]

The Jacket is in the the house

[anarch]

I attended the talk.

He was poised, even when the socialist in the audience gave a speech at the end.

Would have loved to have had the time to go over Obama's record to date.

[Nike Dunk Shoes]

thanks