March 2010 BlogMeet!

Be there!

Go on, take a bite!

Went on a errand in the truck today and listened to NPR for about 1/2 minute. The reporters were discussing Obamacare and gave the impression of people tasked with making a shit sandwich sound tasty.

Libertarianism, Conservatism, and the Neo-Cons

Worth watching:

Thanks, Mr. President.!

Our accountant finished our taxes. We made $8600.00 less last year than the year before. There's Hope and Change, Mr. President! All I can offer is a hearty "Fuck you!"

We have met the Hippie. . .

. . . and he is us. In a NY Times Op-ed entitled "The Wal-Mart Hippies" I think David Brooks has hit the nail on the head. As he argues:

. . . the Tea Partiers are closer to the New Left. They don’t seek to form a counter-establishment because they don’t believe in establishments or in authority structures. They believe in the spontaneous uprising of participatory democracy.

. . . both the New Left and the Tea Party movement are radically anticonservative. Conservatism is built on the idea of original sin — on the assumption of human fallibility and uncertainty. To remedy our fallen condition, conservatives believe in civilization — in social structures, permanent institutions and just authorities, which embody the accumulated wisdom of the ages and structure individual longings.

That idea was rejected in the 1960s by people who put their faith in unrestrained passion and zealotry. The New Left then, like the Tea Partiers now, had a legitimate point about the failure of the ruling class. But they ruined it through their own imprudence, self-righteousness and naïve radicalism.

And Glenn Beck as the new Abbie Hoffman? Maybe I'll steal his book.

Thursday Midday Mayhem

Tuesday Night Tunes

Niyaz.

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