Ad Hoc Ender's Review
March 20, 2006
5:30 p.m., MT

Ender's Review started as an e-mail only effort early in 2003. Originally I created it using Outlook Express and later the Microsoft Office version of Outlook. Later, when I introduced Endervidualism, the step up to Front Page offered tremendous improvement over Outlook. However, as often seems the case with Microsoft products, Front Page's “features” did not abide well with industry standards. I've been working toward removing Microsoft “features” from Endervidualism.

Ender's Review has few, if any, true dependencies on Front Page at this point. However, Endervidualism still has a few. Last Friday I woke thinking I would work at removing some of those remaining dependencies, but when I turned on my computer, it wouldn't boot. After a fair amount of investigation it seems I need a new motherboard. Since Endervidualism uses a web hosting facility, this didn't affect the site's availability. However, the temporary loss of my computer reduced my ability to easily update the site. Rather than not put out an Ender's Review for “the duration” – until my computer returns – I offer this blogified edition of Ender's Review, without “pull quotes” (or naming of sites in most cases, but if you follow the link, you'll find most familiar). I will also distribute a link to this blog entry for my e-mail list users.

Material for the Political Liberty category often seems difficult to find. This week I only have one item: Google Keeps Search Data Private. However, Life in Amerika, as is also often the case, has plenty of items, starting with one close to home for me by Warren Bluhm from his blog Green Bay Free Radical: The water is boiling. Robyn Blumner from the St. Petersburg Times follows with A hollow, failed presidency. Thomas C. Greene in Washington but from The Register finds: Middle-class peeves cost more money than exists. One of my favorite sections – Ordered Liberty without the State – has a full complement, beginning with: Anarchy, Violence and the State by Stefan Molyneux; Robert Klassen explains how direct scrutiny doesn't always work as well as Looking Aside ; and Hans-Hermann Hoppe asks Does the State Resolve or Create Conflict?

Another favorite section of mine – Spreading Decentralism – has only two entries in this reduced edition, but they are good ones: What Lies Ahead? by Butler Shaffer, and Why Did Bush Destroy Iraq? by Paul Craig Roberts. Another often frightening section – The New World Hegemon – has a full complement, starting with Nat Hentoff writing about The Torture Judge; next Paul Craig Roberts wonders Was Serbia a Practice Run for Iraq? ; and last: Jeremy Scahill says Rest Easy, Bill Clinton: Milosevic Can't Talk Anymore. The foreign affairs segment ends with: Politics by Other Means, where J.L. Wilson discusses Realist Isolationism and Ivan Eland considers President Bush’s Metamorphosis in Foreign Policy, while Martin Kelly offers A Requiem for Gonzoconservatism.

With all that discussion of foreign affairs and political “order,” Spontaneous Order offers a pleasant change when Fred E. Foldvary considers descriptions of Market Process and Market Dynamics and Bob Murphy asks Is There a Libertarian Case Against Free Trade? However, in our world Nonspontaneous Disorder also rears its head. Per Bylund notices and recommends Rejecting Television. Julian Sanchez discusses the current regime's fear of openness with Bush: Sunshine, Go Away and Charles Peña considers whether Fixing Intelligence will offer the gains many anticipate. Randolph Bourne said “War Is The Health Of The State.” Evidence accumulates with Iranophobia by Paul Craig Roberts.

In Bits of History Claire Wolfe has one of her Hardyvillians tell How Hardyville Fell Off the Map. Discussions of history often come around to the subjects of War and Peace. Justin Raimondo covers historical ground with Slobodan Milosevic, RIP , while Garry Reed uses irony to illustrate history with Yelling 'Peace' in a Crowded Classroom and Ted Roberts tells of The War Tax That Never Went Away.

Culcha' most often gives me hope. This week is no exception. In keeping with most of this section, my Endervidualism movie review last week was of a film set in Britain: A Clockwork Orange. However, the big buzz surrounds the new movie release: V for Vendetta. I saw it Friday afternoon. We had bought advance tickets or I might have delayed seeing it till another time considering the computer problems which popped up. However, V really improved my mood. It gets my highest recommendation. Here are some other points of view. First, before seeing the film, Scott Bieser expresses trepidations, since Hollywood has often spoiled great literary works in the past, and V qualifies as a seminal anti-statist work. Scott also points to an interview with Alan Moore who wrote the story from which the screenplay was derived. Next, Wally Conger says the film excels at Exhorting the right of revolution, and J. L Wilson writes Hooray for Hollywood. B.W. Richardson reiterates a central theme of the book and movie with Ideas are bulletproof while Sunni Maravillosa joins the protagonist of the film in alliteration with her praise in Valorous V Victorious; No Valediction Suffices for Vaticinal, Vulpine Vizier. Damon Dimmick gives pen to both positive and negative sides with Gunpowder, Treason, and Plot. Finally, Butler Shaffer also praises 'V for Vendetta.'. By the usual customs I observe with Ender's Review the last essay should have been in next week's issue, but most of those customs don't hold this week anyway. Google has tons of news on V. Go see it, if you can find it at an IMax theater, better yet.

From The lighter side, a New Poll Finds 86 Percent Of Americans Don't Want To Have A Country Anymore , while Jon Stewart at the Daily Show (video w/audio) talks about an important anniversary and Historians Discover Children's Menu On Back Of U.S. Constitution. In Deep Thought David MacGregor discusses The Conspiracy/Paranoia Trap and Jonathan David Morris writes that It's Time To Forget September 11th. Lastly, in Miscellany for several reasons, the essay's speculative nature not the least, Jorge Hirsch writes Iran and Bird Flu: The Perfect Casus Belli?

I hope this makes up for the lack of the usual version, which should be back, if not next week, then the following one, I hope. I will post news on Endervidualism site activity for those interested here on the blog.

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Comments: 1 person has added a thought or two ...

On Monday, March 20th, at approximately 10:37 p.m. Mountain time, Kenneth R. Gregg said:

Chris Tames' death is noted on my website, CLASSical Liberalism http://classicalliberalism.blogspot.com/

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