Book Review: Ain’t Nobody’s Business if You Do (1996)

Posted on October 5, 2012 by Brian Wright

The absurdity of consensual crimes in our free country—Peter McWilliams
Reviewed by Brian Wright

1996, Prelude Press, 666 pages

“I never hurt nobody but myself
and that’s nobody’s business but my own.”
— Billie Holiday

It’s taken me too long to review this book because it’s taken me far too long to actually read this magnificent book. Everyone in Liberty World knows Peter McWilliams and most of us have shed many a tear for this sensitive, kind, humane, supremely intelligent, humorous author, publisher, and advocate of fundamental personal freedom. For this man. Continue reading →

Movie Review: Gigi (1958)

Posted on October 3, 2012 by Brian Wright

Yes, doggonit, a great sense-of-life film __ 9/10
Reviewed by Brian Wright

Aunt Alicia: Love, my dear Gigi, is a thing of beauty like a work of art, and like a work of art it is created by artists.

Gigi: Who gave it to you, Aunt?
Aunt Alicia: A king!
Gigi: A great king?
Aunt Alicia: No, a little one. Great kings do not give very large stones.
Gigi: Why not?
Aunt Alicia: In my opinion it’s because they don’t feel they have to.
Gigi: Well, who does give the valuable jewels?
Aunt Alicia: Who? Oh the shy, the proud, and the social climbers, because they think it’s a sign of culture. But it doesn’t matter who gives them, as long as you never wear anything second-rate. Wait for the first-class jewels, Gigi. Hold on to your ideals. Continue reading →

Guest Column: ‘Expose and Expunge’ Illegal Records on Citizens

Posted on October 1, 2012 by Brian Wright

Take action now to erase the DHS spy files
by Partnership for Civil Justice

Most people are not aware that silently, but constantly, the government is now watching, recording your everyday travels and storing years of your activities in massive data warehouses that can be quickly “mined” to find out when and where you have been, whom you’ve visited, meetings you’ve attended, and activities you’ve taken part in…. This column comes from a mailing of Partnership for Civil Justice that fights the Grid, specifically the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and its vast indiscriminate ‘spy files’ on American citizens. Continue reading →