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Interview published

Monday, October 6th, 2008 by Mike Gogulski | Posted in diary | No Comments »

I am honored to have been interviewed by Martin Rojko, a journalist covering real estate markets for Slovakia's Trend news magazine and a libertarian fellow-traveler. The interview is online at Martin's blog, Súkromné vlastníctvo (Private Property). Unlike his usual writing, which ...

My muddy anti-corporate anarchist ethics

Sunday, August 17th, 2008 by Mike Gogulski | Posted in philosophy | 3 Comments »

I've made a couple of posts here so far illustrating how I've taken to refusing work which supports government. To the most recent, Francois Tremblay offered both praise and a question of consistency: I also applaud you, however do you also do ...

Educating for anarchism #2

Thursday, August 14th, 2008 by Mike Gogulski | Posted in diary, philosophy | 6 Comments »

Got a call from a potential new client today, looking for a translator to work with on a regular basis. However, they do quite a bit of government work and sent me a job to quote on for a state-owned ...

Why Slovakia?

Tuesday, August 12th, 2008 by Mike Gogulski | Posted in diary | No Comments »

A lot of people have asked me how I came to live in Slovakia. Answering that casts us back to around 1997 when I read Roger Gallo's Escape from America. The book advances the Perpetual Traveler, or PT, philosophy, and provides ...

Barack Obama is not American - Definitive proof!

Thursday, August 7th, 2008 by Mike Gogulski | Posted in politics | 5 Comments »

Finally, definitive proof that Barack Obama is not American! [caption id="attachment_250" align="alignnone" width="436" caption="Smoking gun? Missing document? You decide!"][/caption] Translation: BARACK Spirits beverage with apricot flavor Ingredients: Spirits, Apricot Flavoring, E150a Colorant1 Manufactured by Old Herold, s.r.o. for Frucona Trade Košice2, s.r.o. Bratislavská 36, ...

The Price of the State

Monday, August 4th, 2008 by Mike Gogulski | Posted in economics | No Comments »

Dear readers, At the risk of a bit of self-promotion, well, here I am self-promoting a bit. I'm very pleased to announce the unveiling of the English version of Cena Štátu, The Price of the State. The website is an overview of the ...

The state and others respond

Tuesday, July 29th, 2008 by Mike Gogulski | Posted in diary, police | 5 Comments »

Well, some of the responses to my letters seeking alternate means of identification have started coming back. The Slovak post sent back a form letter listing the documents they accept. Worthless, as none of the options I presented were addressed. No ...

Educating for anarchism

Thursday, July 3rd, 2008 by Mike Gogulski | Posted in diary, philosophy | 18 Comments »

I was just finishing up at the post office this morning, mailing out the letters I wrote yesterday, when I got a phone call from a client. (Matters of inconsequential fact have been changed to protect identities and my business relationships.) Client: ...

Dear Sir: Wherein I seek alternate means of identification

Wednesday, July 2nd, 2008 by Mike Gogulski | Posted in diary, police | 10 Comments »

I'm sending out some letters today... 02.07.2008 Michael Jude Gogulski Mikovíniho 15 831 02 Bratislava Oddelenie cudzineckej polície PZ Bratislava Hrobákova 44 852 42 Bratislava Dobrý deň, moje meno je Michael Jude Gogulski. Momentálne mám povolený prechodný pobyt na území Slovenskej republiky č. XXXXXXX a v priebehu niekoľkých mesiacov ...

Photos from the Liberty English Camp, Vrútky, Slovakia, June 2008

Monday, June 30th, 2008 by Mike Gogulski | Posted in diary | 6 Comments »

Photos from the 2008 Liberty English Camp in Vrútky, Slovakia, organized by INESS, the Institute of Economic and Social Studies, and The Language of Liberty Institute. Attendees came from Slovakia, the Czech Republic, Poland, Belarus, Ukraine, Turkey, and Slovenia. Instructors/organizers/facilitators came from ...