“No Offense, Kinsella”

by Stephan Kinsella on August 28, 2022

I have had a private freewheeling libertarian email discussion list for many years, and many private memes have emerged. I used to gaslight someone by adding “No offense, John” after a comment that I wanted to signal was an implicit insult or critique of their views. So now they all say “No offense, Kinsella” or “NOK” whenever they disagree with me or when they gather on occasion, since I used to criticize “artificial gatherings” instead of “organic” (even though I attend many “artificial gatherings” a year, so now they’ll get together and say “artificial gathering alert, NOK” or something like that).

Here are some samples over the years:

First, some videos:

Youtube Playlist of NOK’s, including those below (most courtesy Juan Carpio):

Corey Feldman:

Tom Woods and Joe Salerno:

Tom Woods:

Mises Brasil:

Lew Rockwell:

I trick my mom into saying “No offense, GAP [Geoffrey Allan Plauche”]:

Here are some pix taken over the years, many sent to me to tease me:

PFS 2022, Bodrum Turkey. Greg Morin, Carl and Karen Bowen, et al.

With Jacob Lovell and Greg Morin, Libertarian Scholars Conference, Nashville, Sept. 9 2022

With Norman Horn, Jacob Lovell, and Greg Morin, Libertarian Scholars Conference, Nashville, Sept. 10, 2022

Greg & Joy Morin, JFK airport headed to “Iceland,” Aug. 28, 2022, in honor of this post

Jacob Lovell, Antony Sammeroff, Tom DiLorenzo, Jeff Barr, Jim Yohe, me, Lee Iglody, The Waverly Local, near Auburn, AL, March 2021, for Mises Institute AERC