Goodbye Vince

Vince Miller, the president of the International Society of Individual Liberty passed away on June 30.

I had first met him at a libertarian discussion group in 1994. He inspired all around, and I was pleased to show him a high school zine I had edited, Spare RIBS. This felt like more than coincidence, since I already had a $69 ticket for a vagabond bus trip to San Francisco three days later. I saw the bookstore, their inky old printing press, and crashed at his and Mark Valverde's apartment in the outer Richmond. A few years later when I was working in the Silicon Valley, I helped webmonkey the ISIL website. And I would see him at libertarian parties at Jeff Riggenbach's, until Jeff (and I at the same time) moved from the Bay area in February 2006.

Vince, we'll miss you.

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