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Cordial and Sanguine, Part 33: A Choice, Not an Ecch
At BHL I linked to Kevin C.’s response to the Obama campaign’s Life of Julia sleme.*
(*Sleme = slimy meme.)
The Atrocity of Hope, Part 20: The Dear Leader Deigns to Authorise Your Marriage
I think it’s sweet that our mass-murdering, civil-liberties-shredding President has finally (for the second time) “evolved” all the way to the Dick Cheney level of enlightenment on gay marriage. I’m sure that’ll be a great comfort to Bradley Manning.
Charles and Gary Interviewed
GARY (chartier and charles) JOHNSON 2012. (Sorry.)
Check out two recent interviews, one with Charles and Gary and one just with Charles.
Money Changes Everything
I just saw Michael Sandel on The Colbert Report expressing outrage at the idea of allowing votes, citizenship, and improved prison cells to be marketable commodities.
I don’t have much of a dog on either side of this fight, since the three institutions he mentions (at least in anything like their present form) are all ones I think should be abolished. So Sandel’s question moves me about as much as the question “should the right to beat one’s slaves be a marketable commodity”?
Santorum Converts to Anarchism!
Rick Santorum has been selling himself as the candidate who’s reliable and consistent, in contrast with Romney’s flop-flipping. But here’s what Santorum has said in the past:
Republicans, I think to our credit, have sort of morphed away from the Goldwater idea that government needs to be smaller, it needs to do less, it needs to be doing nothing except what its core functions are. … I am not a libertarian, and I fight very strongly against libertarian influence within the Republican Party and the conservative movement. … We are not a group of people who believe in no government. … They have this idea that people should be left alone, be able to do whatever they want to do, government should keep our taxes down and keep our regulations low, that we shouldn’t get involved in the bedroom, we shouldn’t get involved in cultural issues – you know, people should do whatever they want. Well, that is not how traditional conservatives view the world …. There is no such society that I am aware of, where we’ve had radical individualism and that it succeeds as a culture.
And here’s what he just said today:
We don’t need a manager. … We need someone who’s going to pull up government by the roots and throw it out … and liberate the private sector.
Um … uh … welcome to the revolution, comrade?