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From Reason: I might find this funny if I didn’t think the man will be elected on Tuesday. UPDATE: While few people know it, there is a libertarian alternative to Moore and Jones: Republicans are frantically looking for a write-in candidate. They don’t need to bother. Libertarian Ron Bishop is already a write-in candidate, excluded…

Roy Moore and Gavin Newsom as two peas in a pod? As goes the goose, so goes the gander? Glenn Reynolds observes: It’s not civil disobedience when it’s done by someone who controls the machinery of government — it’s usurpation, even when it’s in a cause I agree with. While I tend to agree, it…

Are we no longer allowed to freely say what we think? Not, apparently, if we know people who might be appointed to the Supreme Court. I feel sorry for Mark Judge. He spoke his mind in a variety of contexts, and it’s looking as if he’s the real reason that the Kavanaugh nomination is in trouble. And while I…

Enjoying my death? Not quite yet. Although, the thought had crossed my mind in the context of Roy Moore… I have to say that no one else could have gotten me off my ass to write an actual blog post — much less three… So perhaps I should thank the son of a bitch. As an…

If Roy Moore wins tonight (which I think he will), Trump loses. And, if Roy Moore loses, Trump also loses. That’s the price of deliberately shackling himself to such a nutcase. UPDATE: Wow. Much as I hate to say it, I think congratulations — of a perverse sort, obviously — are in order for Roy…

Roy Moore is going to win the election, not in spite of alleged sex scandals, but because of them. …the Democrats’ own sexual scandals have helped Moore. It’s not obvious they would. If the Democrats had condemned their own members promptly and forthrightly, when the evidence against them was compelling, then the party could stand…

That’s what Roy Moore thinks about consensual homosexual conduct. Normally, the nutcase views of such a ridiculous person would not matter. The problem is that this loon is running for the United States Senate, and he might very well be elected. I hardly ever blog anymore, but not long ago I raised myself out of…

Back in 2002, I started this libertarian-oriented blog in what I naively thought might be a way to counter bigotry, especially anti-gay religious bigotry emanating from  social conservatives on the right. I’ve gotten tired of blogging, but the election of religious bigot extraordinaire Roy Moore is enough to awaken me from the grave — at least to…

In a post about the latest attempt to medicalize political opinion, I interjected a gratuitous, unelaborated thought: I often suspect that the culture war is intended to keep us bickering over penises in the hope we won’t notice the country is going bankrupt, but that’s another rant. I’ve talked about this before. It’s the old…

Just about everyone across the political spectrum has sounded off about Sarah Palin (who has predictably been praised and denounced for her appearance at the Tea Party Convention), and all the while I have remained silent. Perhaps too suspiciously silent, perhaps not. In an earlier email to M. Simon, I explained why I didn’t want…

I very much hope that this indictment of the Tea Party Movement is either exaggerated or untrue: The Nashville linup also would appear to rebut another commonly held argument that the Tea Party Movement’s independence is guaranteed by its fundamentally libertarian character, so incompatible with the GOP’s heavy reliance on cultural conservatives and foreign-policy neocons.…

At least, that’s what’s on the sign that got the man in the video arrested. The arrested man is the Reverend Orlando Bethel, and he is running for president of the United States as the Christian Reform Party candidate. He is waving his “SANTA IS SATAN” sign across the street from a school, apparently in…

I’m having some trouble understanding something. When I was a kid, it was a smear to say that someone was gay. That’s because homosexuality tended to be frowned upon, and even if you didn’t care about someone’s sexuality, unless you were among close friends, making that assertion was inherently problematic. If made falsely, it could…

Let’s see. This week Judge Roy Moore lost in Alabama. Earlier in Illinois, Judy Topinka defeated her Alan Keyes-style opponent whose supporters had screamed that Topinka was a homo-loving “anti-family interloper.” While the Moore and Topinka elections involved Republicans, and Don was writing about Democrats, I’m intrigued by Don Surber’s post (via Glenn Reynolds) about…

I’m having a conceptual problem with the term “graven image,” and I don’t find the literal words especially illuminating: Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, or any likeness of any thing that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth.…

You have been tried by twelve good men and true who are as high above you as heaven is of hell. Time will pass and seasons will come and go. Spring will come with its wavin’ green grass and heaps of sweet-smellin’ flowers on every hill. Then sultry Summer with her shimmerin’ heat waves and…

If there’s one thing I can’t stand, it’s to think something that you think is a new, original thought only to discover that some equally original (in this case, more original) asshole has thought it first! The other day, I was thinking along the lines of original intent behind the original intent of the original…

Via Andrew Sullivan, here’s Bob Barr (no friend of gay marriage) on the FMA: I am not new to my conservative principles. No one has ever tried to accuse me of being a liberal Republican or a moderate Republican; I have only been a conservative Republican. And, as a conservative Republican, I have never compromised…

(….almost as much as being a RINO — which sucks almost as much as being a DINO!) It’s music review time! Last night I went to the Tower Theater and saw Phil Lesh and his band. Had a wonderful evening, and a wonderful day. Until, that is, I opened some hate-filled junk mail from a…

The “Smart Grid™” is a stupid idea. I have been trying to sell this article to possibly interested parties for a few months. No sale. I got fired from my last gig over it. But no point in crying about it. I’m going to give it away. Please do me the honor of passing it…