But the throbbing head and the sansabelt trousers?

More highlites from LWM's link

Money that government touches spontaneously combusts, destroying the economy. Money retained by individuals grows the economy, even if literally burnt

The "Party of Oxymoron": "Individualists unite!"

Spiritually baptize the deceased as libertarians because they cannot protest the anachronism: Locke, Smith, Paine, Jefferson, Spooner, etc.

Inviolate private property is the only true measure of freedom. Those without property have the freedom to try to acquire it. If they can't, let them find somebody else's property to complain on.

But I think your agenda is showing....

Michael, I hate to rain on your celebrity parade, but I must respectfully disagree. I'm very familiar with the biographies of every one of the people you list

It's a good thing you didn't actually know any of them personally, or we'd really be in trouble.

"Jacobin syndicalists".

Perhaps we should unpack that. Tell us all about the "Jacobins" first.

just getting restless here in the peanut gallery.
Short attention span/arrested development,
Ginsberg ;)

One of my fact-checkers has informed me that Jesus did not formally convert to American Neo-Conservatism until January 19, 2000 A.D.

I'm sorry for any inconvenience this partial error may have occasioned.

KR

Glenn, you've been mean to poor Joe: http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1630004,00.html

Beware the Bloggers' Bile

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"...I've found that some great reporting takes place in the blogosphere: Juan Cole's Iraq updates are invaluable, Joshua Micah Marshall's Talking Points Memo did serious muckraking about the U.S. attorneys scandal, and Ezra Klein (no relation) is excellent on health care. I love linking to smart work by others, something you just can't do in a print column. " [Oops, no link to you here. Seems Joe doesn't think you're all that smart]

"But the smart stuff is being drowned out by a fierce, bullying, often witless tone of intolerance that has overtaken the left-wing sector of the blogosphere." [Aaah, there you are.]

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[But Joe and the Other Adults see what's happening, you're just blindly following Rush's methods:]

"Some of this is understandable: the left-liberals in the blogosphere are merely aping the odious, disdainful—and politically successful—tone that right-wing radio talk-show hosts like Rush Limbaugh pioneered. [Oh, and you're angry:] They are also justifiably furious at a Bush White House that has specialized in big lies and smear tactics.

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[But you're screwing things up:]

"...[K]owtowing [by Democratic politicians] to extremists [like YOU, you vile - and mean - lefty blogger] is exactly the opposite of what this country is looking for after the lethal radicalism of the Bush Administration.

will keep those pants up and that agenda hidden.

Glad you liked it, Paul D.

25 years worth of experience and information.

William:

Right-wingers say that labor unions are corrupt, so we should get rid of them. Yes, some unions have been corrupt, but the right wing's desire to get rid of them has nothing to do with their corruption, and everything to do with the corruption of the owners of what Marx quaintly called the means of production.

I can agree with all of the above; but I would quibble and say I also know a fair amount of liberals in this town who feel the same way. Too bad. My dad was the president of a local steelworkers union back in his day. I saw that company and union benefited from a good relationship between labor leaders and management.

Governments grow from little acorns into giant oaks; their shade kills as well as shelters. It is true.

That is the elephant in the room. (can i get an amen for a pun?)

If you have a perfect government today; your great grandchildren will face tyranny.

Perhaps you should read Paul Rosenberg's last comment again. The administration of the human enterprise, and the institutions of power which permit it are always fraught. You can't escape the twenty-first century. Our institutions of power these days, centralized, rationalized, and equipped with the all the modern instruments science and engineering have crafted for them, appear impervious, whether they clothe themselves in the guise of government or global capitalism. Their only weakness is that they have human beings at the helm, and arrogant ones at that.

I am not opposed to leaders, nor to law; just the opposite. I do oppose the idea that certain leaders should have a special privilege to use force, coerce, or compel others to submit to their leadership. They should not use force in ways that would be impermissible for other people to use force.

Anarchists favor there being more leaders, not no leaders; as many leaders as followers will follow. Similarly, anarchists do not oppose law, but rather oppose the existence of any body of men with the power to make law by merely decreeing it to be law. We disagree with the monopoly on law and force within a defined border that constitutes the modern nation-state.

Jefferson's popular democracy is under attack from all quarters; what we call government is only one of its enemies. Still, if we accept the idea that politics can -- and should -- trump economics, we might be able to employ government to better ends. We have no such hope with corporations empowered by laws once intended to nurture the entrepreneur.

I agree. However, my point is that Jefferson's government died years ago and that there was never any doubt that it would. :-(

Hell William, it is not that I like the fact that governments always become totalitarian --- I live under a government.

I am sure you have heard of the concept of "ironic evil". Ironic evil: the evil good men do even as they try to do good. Beware that.

I possessed a very low regard for GWB when I started reading your invectives, ....

"... but then I started drinking heavily, lost my job, my wife, and my dog, and have to live on the crumbs I get from infesting blogs with RNC trollery."

Cheers,

It is a silk scroll. A bunch of lumberjacks, plumbers, wood hewers, and true scholars.

Where else can we diagram hillbilly talk, William? Those friends of yours know phonics, pronunciation, and 'slog' along each and every day.

I ketched my foot on a dumber than dumb concrete sidewalk and spangled a sacroiliac. I need 5th. Or, an adornment for a bad omen day on Frog Day. Sez I! "Be calm." It ain't nothing new to appear bare before a Doj P&P judge. Am I supposed to wear a cornstalk hair doo and borrow a crown of honey-suckle or rose thorns? How do you relate to the Law folk at the Department of the State?

My only defense on courtrooms is a big fluffy pillow full of down-goose feathers.

I ketchin' a bad quacking mood. The Doj is dwindling in my respect more and more dreadful, and more warlike day by day. 'Um like a staff of no-pretty Igirl's boys. But I can't pres-sin 'em good-Gals here close and 'um just fun to try to kiss from far away...No.

...even if the law judge is nasty, is she ever gonna' be sweet enough to kiss in the Court?

...just luv from a distance 'um long-hair braided ones?...Why say, "eek?"

William, you know them cranky lady Judge's are so damn sweet? I'm fretful. So, W.T., sez, "I pressing' on with a natural feelin'ly okay, and punctuated with sithin' lookin' emberessed...

...Wiliam with no one to kiss at a Salon's future grammar class? Yes.

Is eek a spelled coreek?

If so, "Uneek!"

Go away Doj.

W.T. You go with one ore and small wood canoe into dangerous waters.