Otherwise where would voters come from?

A comment on process:

I happen to be a pacifist. I despise violence, hate guns and will do everything in my power to prevent war. As such, I am emminently unqualified to run the country and wouldn't want the job if given the opportunity. But if, by speaking out against violence and prejudice, I can cause others to evaluate their own views on the subject more carefully than they would otherwise, then I have performed an important service.

In a similar vein, Glenn is a libertarian (or at least has tendencies in that direction) On a variety of subjects, he is likely to address issues by how they relate to personal freedom. This may disqualify him for a leadership position in the FDA but if he can cause others to evaluate their own views on the subject more carefully than they would otherwise, then he will have performed an important service.

I personally think that our current approach to medications and drugs is broken and needs fixing. Much of what is wrong with our current law is based on the Puritan idea that there is something inherently wrong with feeling good.

Glenn position may be considered extreme by some, but it needs to be expressed or else the debate will de-evolve to a question of just how much "expertise" is required to run someone elses life for them.

Among whom does this man command "respect and admiration"? I can't imagine that anyone can listen to or read his ravings (and that's what they are and that's what they have been for years) and not shudder with anxiety on the one hand or recoil in disgust on the other.

The sad fact is that there is a subset of Americans for whom he speaks. The good news is that the subset is shrinking. The bad news is that they have been heavily overrepresented within the beltway.

BTW why is it no one had anything horrible to say about Krauthammer when he worked for Saint Jimmy of Carter.

Because his repugnance hadn't yet been as widely disseminated as it has subsequently. But for the record...Charles Krauthammer has ALWAYS been a creep!

And God help the intrepid explorer willing to study them in their natural habitat! I understand the place is infested with snakes, rats and other assorted vermin!

I respectfully suggest that you quit digging.

Only that you quit compounding the damage that your contortions do to your argument.

That you would read my comment in that manner and go on to suggest that I'd hit a new low when in fact, my comment was one of the nicest things anyone here could possibly have said to you, only further highlights the degree to which your perception is being clouded.

My condolences.

And skipped the comments..

But when I have time I'll come back and read carefully because I think what we have here is an excellent dissection of conspiracy theories in general. This kind of thinking is of course reasonably common on both sides of the political spectrum which unfortunately makes it rather easy to discredit a lot of good ideas by associating them with particularly bad ones.

This is why it's vitally necessary that what we proudly refer to as the "reality-based community" continues to pound away.

OK..all caught up now.

What gets me about this story is of course how much it reveals about the echo chamber. Of course the actual theory is daft. And say what you will about Malkin, Reynolds or Johnson, they aren't THAT stupid. But they know that their readers are and they have absolutely no qualms whatsoever about putting this kind of stuff out there for the true beleivers to lap up. It's quite sickening if you think about it long eneough.

He has been linked to approvingly by Michelle Malkin who in turn has been profiled approvingly by Howie Kurtz. Only 2 degrees of separation between a complete lunatic and the WaPo!

Jes sayin'

Ignore

In the sense that he added "Maybe not, these days. . . ." and linked to it.

This has been another edition of easy answers to stupid questions.

This is how they deal with people who fail to worship the correct invisible being.

BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) -- Gunmen in northern Iraq stopped a bus filled with Christians and members of a tiny Kurdish religious sect, separating out the groups and taking 23 of the passengers away to be shot.

http://www.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/meast/04/22/iraq.main.ap/index.html

One gets the feeling that our current troll would be quite comfortable in such a place. Except for the fact that the cold blooded killing ISN'T a morbid fantasy being played out on the internets but is as real as it gets.

The virtually hallucinatory mind-set of many of the people who call themselves "Conservatives" (or the sub-set "Ditto Heads") is a phenomenon worthy of serious study by social psychologists

Even what we regard as well adjusted individuals are in fact contraptions cobbled together by historical happenstance and evolution. That we are able to back away from ourselves enough to actually study the phenomenon just indicates that information and the desire for knowlege has a life of its own and we are its instruments. In the final analysis however, we're still just a bunch of apes flinging poo....

Don't beleive it? Read realname's posts then come back and tell me I'm wrong!

Like it or not, the only reason people starve and go uneducated is because of bad government

So your suggesting it IS government's role to make sure people don't starve? Sounds like shooter's channeling LBJ!

Well your right on one point...

It IS all darwinisms fault!

(sometime you'll have to give a seminar on how to do all the special characters.)