Posts here have been in short supply as I have been living life and trying to get a campaign off the ground. But "11 questions to see if Libertarians are hypocrites" by R. J. Eskrow, picked up at Salon , was just so freaking lame that I spent half an hour answering them. In the end (but I'll leave it to your judgment), it is not that Libertarians or Libertarian theory looks hypocritical, but that the best that can be said for Mr. Eskrow is that he doesn't have the faintest clue what he's talking about. That's ok, because even ill-informed attacks by people like this make an important point: Libertarian ideas (as opposed to Conservative ideas, which are completely different) are making a comeback as the dynamic counterpoint to "politics as usual," and so every hack you can imagine must be dragged out to refute them. Ergo: Mr. Eskrow's 11 questions, with answers: 1. Are unions, political parties, elections, and ...
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No--I'm not missing fundamental differences between the two societies--I'm pointing out one way in which we are becoming more like the failed states we used to deprecate.
And if you really think that even .0001% of my intent was to snark at two Black presidents, I'm disappointed, because you know better.
One might expect better-- can be therefore taken to mean that no critical editorial cartoons of Mr Obama will be considered in good taste if the only other person in the frame is Black?
It's you from whom I would expect better ... sense.