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I have a cold. This is very annoying but not in the least surprising, I always get sick when I stop worrying about something/am about to start a new job, and unless I stay sick *mutter* my Scitech interview is on Friday. Sometimes being me is very annoying.

For anyone who saw my swancon costume and didn't know who I was, I was dressed as Claire from "Bite Me".

During some panel at Swancon (I forget the context) strangedave disagreed with my assertion that libertarians are right wing, saying "What about socialist libertarians". I decided to look it up when I got home since it sounded like a contradiction in terms to me. So, I just remembered to google "socialist libertarian", and what is the very first link? The Libertarian National Socialist (Nazi) Green Party. Whose page starts with a little thing about how they're against racism. No, there's no contradiction there at all :) (Currently I'm half reading the wikipedia page but I'm too sleepy for politics)

Also this reminds me of a comic I came accross while going through the tailsteak.com archives today (still going). Nothing like interent archives when you're sick and bored.

Comments

[theducks.livejournal.com]

I think it's actually fair to say that many librarians are very left wing. Most librarian organisations and their members oppose censorship in all its forms. As the saying goes, "I do not agree with what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it".

(For background, my mum is a qualified Librarian)

Librarians aren't afraid of information, no matter how dangerous it might seem to others. Librarians were the first to complain when governments suggest filtering internet access at Librarys, the first to complain when people talk about banning books and the first to complain about having to turn over records of what people borrow or view. In order to fight the PATRIOT act, many libraries in the US changed their data retention policies to delete information about a book being borrowed, once it was returned. They argued that once it was returned, they didn't need to know who had last borrowed it, only how many times it had been borrowed.

So in summary, they're a bunch of left-wing hippies :)

[penchaft.livejournal.com]

CLAIRE!!!!
Though, it looks more like a ladle than a spoon. ;)

You are now AWESOME.

Did you know Dylan's started up Family Man (http://projectkooky.com/dylan/familyman), which is about Luther? =D =D

[strangedave.livejournal.com]

Libertarianism has become virtually synonymous with Capitalist Libertarianism (which is right wing by most peoples definitions, though they will tend to claim its not), because there are such a lot of them on the internet and they are such loudmouthed pains in the arse. But there are definitely other traditions that reject the basic assumptions of capitalist libertarianism yet still deserve the name libertarian, most of which would tend to be classified as left wing.

[kadeton.livejournal.com]

My SciGuide training is on Thursday, so I'll probably see you around Scitech at some point. Good luck with your interview! :)