Readers here will easily recognize the issues covered in this short piece by Theodore Dalyrymple: In his essay on the liberty of the press, the great philosopher David Hume wrote what has been many times quoted, but has never achieved the status of a cliché: It is seldom that liberty of any kind is lost all at once. Slavery has so frightful an aspect to men accustomed to freedom that
April 5, 2010
April 5, 2010
Humbly, 2
To: God From: Protein Wisdom Re: Edible panties (raspberry) You fucking rock, dude. Respectfully, protein wisdom
April 5, 2010
Fifty-ninth in a series of real-time empirical observations
In the time it takes you to read this post, Henry Waxman, fresh back from having his cornhole bleached, will sit on a cold stool at La Loma and — nearly simultaneously — devise a regulatory plan that would require all Capitol Hill restaurants to line their bar seats with those spongy foam-plastic rings the lumpenprole like to keep strapped to their crappers.
April 5, 2010
The time has come…
…for the crazed right1 to end the violence!2, 3 1 The 40% of Tea Party demonstrators who identify as Independent or Democrat, while certainly not violent, are nevertheless under the thrall of reactionary and racist far-right rhetoric, and so should be collected for reeducation. Because killing them with sticks takes away potential votes. Chicago excluded. 2 Sure, there hasn’t been any actual violence to speak of — at least, not
April 5, 2010
The United States of Westernist Western Europe
The Hudson Institute’s Irwin Stelzer, writing in the WSJ: So we are to have a European-style value-added tax (VAT). That’s the emerging consensus in Washington as people come to recognize the reality of the deep financial hole into which the Obama administration has dug us. […] The tax sounds simple, but don’t be fooled. Because both upper- and lower-income families pay the tax at an equal rate, the VAT is