Just a reminder. To those who aren’t busy marching for their rights to have the rest of us pay for [half] of their pensions,* and 88% of their premium health care plans, I mean. Those folks are too faking sickness so that they can avoid going to work to teach the children — which they’re doing for the children, naturally — to pay attention to such materialistic trivialities. They’re idealists.

Literally. We pretend we live in a free country. Increasingly, we don’t: the optics and propaganda, by way of a complicit media and a growing corporatism, is controlled by the left, with unelected bureaucracies writing policy, and politicized courts subverting the electoral will. It is not “fringe” to say that we need to take our country back. And you aren’t a hick for saying so. These are not Good Men.

The (Establishment) Empire Strikes Back. Here’s a clue: teaching people how to best massage the truth while speaking in euphemisms and empty platitudes, is not civil. It is dissembling in dulcet tones, using gentle language. And the more we reward empty, feel-good rhetoric, the more we reward the emotionalism and bumper-sticker politics of the left. So. Fuck your “civility.” Dicks.

“Another Triumph for the Greens,” Jonathan Last, Weekly Standard: It so happens that in the last six months, a lot of people have suddenly discovered their dishwashers don’t work as well as they used to. The problem, though, isn’t the dishwashers. It’s the soap. Last July, acceding to pressure from environmentalists, America’s dishwasher detergent manufacturers decided to change their formulas. And the new detergents stink. One of the key ingredients

Oh, wait. You can fact-check that? Well. Okay, then. — Wait, look! Bunnies!

Turns out you don’t have to live in Wisconsin to pay the benefits of Wisconsin teachers. So they’re protesting against you, too, you out-of-state private sector pigs. Why do you hate the working man?

Pragmatism! Somebody’d better contact these “moderate” Republicans and tell them that to “compromise” on something that is to the left of FDR, for Chrissakes, is to surrender the country. Period. Full stop. Thing is, if Walker’s coalition breaks down, Ohio will do the deed. That supposed GOP “moderates” are looking for some cheap grace here is repulsive enough. But doing so after watching the thuggish, childish, and downright anti-democratic behavior