Attn, Portland Reasonoids: Matt Welch & Nick Gillespie at Powell's City of Books, Monday, Aug. 1, 7.30pm
Reason's Nick Gillespie and Matt Welch will be at the celebrated Portland, Oregon bookstore Powell's City of Books on Burnside on Monday, August 1 to talk about and sign copies of their new book, The Declaration of Independents: How Libertarian Politics Can Fix What Wrong's With America.
The event starts at 7.30pm PT and more details are online here.
The Washington Post's George Will (kind of) calls Declaration the beach read of summer 2011:
August is upon us, beaches beckon and Michele Bachmann has set the self-improvement bar high. She recently told The Wall Street Journal, "When I go on vacation and I lay on the beach, I bring von Mises." The congresswoman may be the first person ever to dribble sun lotion on the section of Ludwig von Mises's "Human Action" wherein the Austrian economist (1881-1973) discussed "the formal and aprioristic character of praxeology."
Autodidacts less exacting than Bachmann should spill sand on the pages of "The Declaration of Independents: How Libertarian Politics Can Fix What's Wrong With America" by Nick Gillespie and Matt Welch. These incurably upbeat journalists with Reason magazine believe that not even government, try as it will, can prevent onrushing social improvement.
For more reviews, media appearances, and book tour information, go to Declaration2011.com.
Chicago Reasonoids, take note: Gillespie and Welch roll into the Windy City on August 16, with daytime and nighttime events. Details to come.
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Ironically, I'll be taking commuter and light rail to get there and Amtrak to get home.
Don't you feel a little dirty?
Yeah, although mostly because of the commuter rail. WES went way overboard on costs, largely because they insisted on using brand-new railcars from a company that they had to resuscitate through bankruptcy instead of refurbished Budd RDC's. And they break all the time, so they have an RDC set anyway. And I hear that the Cascades is one of the least-unprofitable Amtrak lines, with at least a good portion of the public funding coming from the state lottery anyway.
I was being snarky. There's nothing wrong with using existing infrastructure. Doing so doesn't make one a "statist," as the kids like to say.
Yeah, I know. But I really do feel dirty after riding on WES because it's such a money drain.
Fuck the beach, your book is so interesting that I read it during sex.
@heller,
It's called masturbation when you do it to yourself.
What about when you have sex with yourself in the future?
sex with yourself in the future
You mean, like, 2 A.M.? I call that "my schedule."
I love you spoof, you're my daily orgasm.
Look, heller, the anonypussy troll is so pathetic and desperate, it needs to spoof my handle. Isn't that cute? It's almost as if she's a stalker.
Pickle-cunt is going through attention withdrawal.
I've actually read Human Action. And I understood it.
Does that make me a bad person? Or an extraordinary libertarian?
Discuss.
Ask future-President Michele Bachmann.
Eww. That sounds just as bad as "Obama's second term".
That just looks like its gonna be cool. Wow.
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You mean she doesn't read the bible???
How this woman has the nerve to talk about big-government while nursing on the teats of it is beyond me.
Tax lawyer, foster children, gay-to-straight-therapy...
Why does God saddle her with migraines and why does she dose herself with science's medicines instead of suffering through God's afflictions? If only Job had had science and government to rescue him...
I'm sure Bachman would continue the war on marijuana which continues to blow-up here in California, but it's ok for her to get her medication.
If nobody has noticed, the authorities are hyper-speed cracking down on pot cultivation here in the Golden State. A recent caller to a conservative talk show linked the current crackdowns by Feds to the desire to claim legality for ObamaCare under the Commerce Clause.
By the way, what's Ron Paul up to lately?
Human Action is the Bible.
You go to Portland but not Seattle. Explain this to me.
Hipsters?
Just. Ignore. The. Troll.
Do. As. I. Say.
Not. As. I. Do.
Isn't saying also doing?
D'Oh!
No bookstore in Seattle can hold a candle to Powell's.
Powell's is indeed one of the very few good things about Portland.
Powell's - yes. Michael Powell - not so much. Portland would be better off without his urban renewal and streetcar boondoggles. But then most of the chattering class in portland is supportive of that crap.
I can name two others: beer, and food carts. There are dozens of breweries and hundreds of food carts. There's a hub a few blocks south of Powell's where they ring an entire city block and a good part of another. A giant box of Korean BBQ for 5 bucks sounds pretty good right about now.
If you actually think Portland has better food than Seattle, you're retarded, and not in a good way.
http://www.bestplaces.net/docs.....ities.aspx
http://www.cnbc.com/id/41315888?slide=3
Wow, that was easy- first two lists that came up on google for cities with the best food had Portland near the top, well above Seattle.
But at least you still have AAA baseball up there.
How dare Welch and Gillespie continually turn this blog into their personal sales pitch.
Anarcho-Capitalism for Dummies?.
Book tours are for the desperate. I want my authors to be aloof. Reclusive, even.
Ol' Trespassers might be there for your Chicago event. There's other Chicago reasonoids, right?
There's at least two of us. 🙂
Cool. Hi, peachy.
I forget whether ChicagoSucks actually lives in Chicago. Probably.
I was just in Chicago.
Great bookstore, fun city. I hope Nick and Matt take advantage of the many fine restaurants and bars in Portland. Also, if either play guitar, you simply must go to Pro Guitar Shop (1100 NW Glisan). It's only a 4 minute walk from Powell's, and there are a few bars along the route. Anyway, Pro Guitar Shop is a fucking temple to guitars and amplifiers. Plus, no state sales tax in Oregon!
The infamous Officer Harless is at it again. Dunphy will now proceed to tell us to wait till all the facts are in.
http://www.liveleak.com/view?i=9c0_1311892748
Some required reading for Officer Harless and his supervisors.
And some more.
Link fixed.
Hopefully there is more space at Powell's than there was at Book Soup. And fewer wierdos.
I Hate you! I just moved from Portland to stupid Nebraska! Powells is still my favorite place in the world, and now you're going to be there???!! Note: I will stop hating you if you come to Lincoln or Omaha.
That actually sounds like a very good plan to me dude. Wow.
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I don't think so!
Great! Variety of books, some of them i want
WOW MATT DAMON LOOK FAMILIAR. STEVE SMITH WONDER, MATT DAMON LIKE RAPE AS MUCH STEVE SMITH?
Now, that sounds actionable...
In the book we must can learn something.
http://www.coniefoxdresses.com
thanks