So. Cal. Cypherpunks CYPHERPUNK-RELATED MEETINGS IN SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA: J. Kent Hastings (Hey-that's ME!) will flame on about: "CYBER CASH: FREE MARKET MONEY COMES OF AGE." Wednesday, September 22, 1993: H.L. MENCKEN FORUM At The Old Spaghetti Factory in Los Angeles 6:30 pm Libations, 7:00 Supper, 7:55 Announcements, 8:00 Speaker, 10:00 Adjournment 5939 Sunset Blvd. near the Hollywood Fwy at Gordon Los Angeles, CA 90028 Restaurant: (213) 469-7149 RESERVATION/PRICES/INFO LINE: 1-310-289-3234 Just as Christ descended into Hell (mythically-don't want any of you to get upset about theism), an anti-Party speaker, J. Kent Hastings (hmm, that guy sounds familiar), will address: LIBERTARIAN PARTY REGION 62 - LOS ANGELES WESTSIDE Thursday, September 23, 1993 at Chris's Italian Restaurant, 10105 Venice Blvd. at Clarington Ave. on the same old Digital Cash topic. Cocktails are at 6:30 pm, dinner at 7 pm, and talk is at 8:30 pm. LP info: 1-310-477-6491 The ALBERT J. NOCK FORUM and Southern California Supper Club is another club that may be of interest to you, run by the host of the H. L. Mencken Forum. Albert J. Nock wrote essays (An Anarchist's Progress) and books about government like Our Enemy, The State and Mr. Jefferson. The Nock Forum has been in operation for over 10 years, hosting speakers on engineering, scientific, financial, and political issues. Controversial figures, on and over the cutting edge of toleration and civil liberties, have also graced the forum, but nobody more outrageous than you'll see on a given day's Geraldo, Oprah, Donahue, or Montel Williams show. I DON'T remember a speaker having had a sex change from male to female, then discovering she was a lesbian, but I was in Northern California for a while and may have missed it. Past speakers at Mencken and Nock include: Max More (Extropy), LiberTech's Chuck Hammill, Wendy McElroy (Freedom, Feminism, and the State), David Justin Ross (Calera), J. Neil Schulman (author of Alongside Night and Rainbow Cadenza), Vic Koman (Jehovah Contract), Robert Anton Wilson (Illuminatus!, Natural Law), L. Neil Smith (Confederacy SF novels), Dr. Sharon Presley (Libertarian Psychology - Obedience to Authority), Samuel Edward Konkin III (New Libertarian, Agorist Institute), Brock Meeks (Computer Privacy), Burt Rutan (Voyager, FreeWing), Paul Macready (Gossamer Condor and Albatross) and many others on topics like nanotechnology, public key crypto, artificial intelligence, immortality, informal markets and other topics that look like Tim May's tag line. BTW, Tim has a standing invitation from the host to speak about "Crypto Anarchy" and get a free dinner (He's gotta be in town and schedule ahead). The latest speaker was Richard Grant, author (Incredible Bread Machine, Trashing Nuclear Power, Rent Control and the War against the Poor), on "Bring Us The Head of Michael Milken." Date/time/location of the next ALBERT J. NOCK Forum, now in its 11th year: STEVEN W. MOSHER "The Future of 1/4 of the Human Race." ACAPULCO at Cerritos Plaza 1800 West Whittier Blvd., La Habra, California, East of Beach Blvd. SAME INFO LINE AS MENCKEN: 1-310-289-3234