Yes, I gave props for that in my post (that would make you the awesome atheists in the pub who came up with that eighty bucks, left Jen speechless!).

That was so kind!

You should have by now. If not, email them at contact@secularactivism.org to inquire.

Oh, hey, that’s true. I destroy people’s property and commit grand theft against them all the time. Oh wait, no I don’t.

You know who else thought punishing someone’s free speech with destroying and seizing their property was justice? Hitler and Stalin.

Ooops. Guess who that makes you in this analogy.

The storage locker looks like the kind of one musicians store amps and instruments in. I’m sure they thought they were getting tens of thousands in tech they could sell. That they are surely massively disappointed is a small justice. (Though the loss to me was great, there actually wasn’t anything in it they could sell…the iPad is locatable…the books would be a chore to unload…the sunglasses are my prescription and so useless to nearly everyone else…etc…so all they really got was a trunk with almost no resale value and less than five hundred in cash.)

Thank you. But I’ve received more than enough (I’ve been so busy catching up on missed time for work I couldn’t even find time to look at blog comments until now!).

But yes, definitely if you can buy my books, the ones you want, and talk them up to everyone you can if you like them, that is always the best win-win way to support me.

Several people have suggested things like that, but I have concerns about labor rights and welfare. Some such suppliers, for example, appear to be Chinese workshops, which are under no clear labor protections; I have no way of knowing what I’m actually supporting. The reason we pay more is that we are paying for worker rights and decent wages (all the way through the supply train). So saving money is not always the best idea, unless you are indeed so poor you have to. But I tread water now. By contrast I’ve been genuinely poor, so I know what that’s like. But now I can afford to support a better system for everyone. So I do. And will as long as I can.