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After borrowing this book from the public library I really want to purchase it myself. I felt Marshall B. Rosenberg did a fine job communicating his ideals. This should not have surprised me as Rosenberg has made almost all of his money communicating with others on how to communicate. At first I thought NVC was a really cheesy idea because "no one talks like that" and I still think it can be ridiculous if taken to the extreme. I certainly see how, when used correctly NVC can better ones life and interactions with others. However, I'm finding that when the opportunity arises I am often having difficulty remembering the stops that Marshall B. Rosenberg taught. Partially it could be the difference of Rosenberg being strait and to the point, unlike the 19th century libertarian philosophers I have been reading lately. He is not repeating himself again and again. So this certainly has advantages and disadvantages. I also found myself while reading of it, allowing my mind to wonder into how others can use it, like my parents, instead of focusing on how I can better my life by using NVC. So its on my wishlist for myself so that I can quickly and easily reference and may decide to get for others too.

Of the books my friends have recommended lately this has been the best. Rothbard does a fantastic job at exposing the state for what it is, and not what the state has taught us it is. Moreover he goes beyond the tired libertarian rhetoric “thieves with guns" and "a monopoly on force" and actually shows what’s wrong with these things. Most interesting, I founds, was Rothbard's attack on "nullification" and showing how it is just as wrong as any other government action for the protection of individual liberty. I'm so glad for the recommendation.

I was greatly greatly disappointed by this audio book. Like most writings of the 19th century I have read lately, this one was clearly written for an audience with a much larger attention span, and much more educated than the average 21st century American. I felt like Bastiat kept repeating the same thing over and over again. I'm not sure how much of this is true, and how much of this was the fact that I learned this particular MP3 CD exposed a bug in the radio in my VW. At one point, I learned, that my CD starts over at 27 minutes into the track regardless of where it left off. However, the fact it took several ignition cycles for me to figure this out indicates how uninteresting this book was. I had high hopes, I had friends indicate to me that this was the great Catholic Anarchinst novel. Bastiat i wouldn't take to be an anarchist after "reading" this and although he may be a Catholic, he didn't seem to be much of one either. I can some up this whole book as, the law is only valid if it protects individual rights, that what ever other libertarian says, nothing "new" here.

This was my second experience into Star Trek comics. The last was 20 years ago for a reason, and this one was just as bad. I got it primarily due to the center Story: "Star Trek Deep Space Nine: N-Vectro" While the story was OK, the drawings where horrible. characters had very little resemblence to the actors who played them on TV. Add to that the idea that a "vectoid" an intellegent virus that can infect anything: people, computers, etc. and then replecate itself to make a fake DS9 somewhere is stretching the imagination even for Star Trek. returnreturnThe first story was better, but there was no transitions at all and sub plot just fixed itself with little explanation. Add to it the completely out of character James T. Kirk lecturing others about violating the prime directive, are you kidding? However the mirror universe idea would have been better than the crap they came up with. returnreturnLastly some new Star Trek and probably the only real "Other Relaties" included tried so hard to give back story on characters in a short amount of time that it gave nothing to the actual plot. returnreturnPass on this one. Pick up Batman if you want a comic and stick to the DS9 re-launch novels going forward.

This collection of 1940s radio shows was interesting. I really liked the Lone Ranger shows and would have given them a 5 star on their own. returnreturnI liked that they didn't completely edit out the advertizments, like "The Shadow Brought to you by Blue Coal" and the spots inside of "The Legend in the Scarlet Cloak" for how to add this show to your local programing, indicating it was from a demo record sent to stations. returnreturnHowever when it came to the serial of the Adventures of Superman "Batman's Mystery" it was ridicioulus. I thoguht I woudl like this because I love my VHS of the the 1940s Batman theatre serial, but the radio was annoying. Every 15 mintues show less than half of it was actual action. Most was theme music, an up until this point, and a long list of winners of some contenst "Bill Smith, Hancock, MI, Geroge Jones, Brooklyn, NY," etc. While this may have been fun as a kid in the 40s listenign each day, or missing a day, one after another on 4 CDs is ridicolus, to the point I'm waiting on listening to my next Superman collection. Also the Superman/Batman story seemed to be silly about the secret identiy thing. Repeatedly telling the listener "Clark Kent who is really Superman" and "Bruce...I mean Batman" to the point that if a super hero really did that, it woudl be worse than Batman only driving the same car as Bruce Wayne did, back in the theatre serials.

The best part of this particular collection of Spooner's writings was the introduction by Smith. This introduction included mentions of other writings that were not included in this collection that I think would be more valuable, that is more informative, than what was. This includes Mentions of writings on an argument against Women's suffrage, and the necessity for paper inflationary currency. Of the collection that was included, I felt Spooner did a great job on the overarching message contained within "Trial by Jury" giving a good information on why the jury of the pears is so important, and a better idea of what Jury Nullification really is (a lot of "paleo-conservatives" seem to be promoting lately that the jury has the ability to actually strike laws from the books). I find it interesting how much he referenced England. It makes me wonder if perhaps in 19th century America more folks actually cared what England had did, most Americans now-a-days will give 0 credit to anything that is not American. I did not appreciate his continually long pointless quotes from other writers, particularly quoting in Latin and then trying to argue with himself the translation. Still many of the writings have the flavor of a student trying to meet the page/word number requirement for an assignment, but all in all a good collection on philosophy, and if one were to decide to purchase a collection of his works (which are available for free as they are in public domain now) this would be a good one. Also of note, either the table of contents or the titles in the book are wrong on the number of "No Treason: the Constitution of no Authority" however as I had read this essay previously I did not attempt to do so again. &c. viz. (common abbreviations in the writing for et cetera. and vis-à-vis).