Tom O’Donnell, in the New Yorker, has fun satirizing police work in an imaginary libertarian future. Libertarians like myself will enjoy it anyway. Get those central bankers!

I was shooting heroin and reading “The Fountainhead” in the front seat of my privately owned police cruiser when a call came in. I put a quarter in the radio to activate it. It was the chief.

“Bad news, detective. We got a situation.”

“What? Is the mayor trying to ban trans fats again?”

“Worse. Somebody just stole four hundred and forty-seven million dollars’ worth of bitcoins.”

The heroin needle practically fell out of my arm. “What kind of monster would do something like that? Bitcoins are the ultimate currency: virtual, anonymous, stateless. They represent true economic freedom, not subject to arbitrary manipulation by any government. Do we have any leads?”

“Not yet. But mark my words: we’re going to figure out who did this and we’re going to take them down … provided someone pays us a fair market rate to do so.”

“Easy, chief,” I said. “Any rate the market offers is, by definition, fair.”

He laughed. “That’s why you’re the best I got, Lisowski. Now you get out there and find those bitcoins.”

“Don’t worry,” I said. “I’m on it.”

I put a quarter in the siren. Ten minutes later, I was on the scene. It was a normal office building, strangled on all sides by public sidewalks. I hopped over them and went inside.

Hat tip to Clarice Feldman.

Hat tip to Vanderleun.

Miriam Elia successfully raised £4,998 on Kickstarter to fund publication of her “We Go to the Gallery,” an amusing satire on Modern Art in the form of the mid-last-century British Ladybird series of children’s books.

The Independent feature.

We go to the gallery – Miriam Elia – Kickstarter promo from Tom ODwyer Media on Vimeo.

Everybody I like has already posted this one: Ratak Monodosico, Vanderleun, Madame Scherzo.

DougRoss has the data.

Hat tip to Karen L. Myers.

Hat tip to Vanderleun.

Hat tip to Karen l. Myers.