Man. Obama Won.

Amazing, isn't it? What with all the conflation of Liberalism with Socialism, Communism and Fascism...

The major "What the FUUUUUCK?!?!?!?!" moment of my life was when the book, Liberal Fascism, was published by the editor of the National Review. The very same National Review that had praised General Francisco Franco's handling of Spain before and after its Civil War...Don't believe me? Look it up! This is a blog, after all--expect the research to be sloppy, but don't expect me to fudge any of it. I'm not running for the Liberal countersite to the Drudge Report. We all ready have one of those!

We have a Democratic president again--as well as a Democratic majority in both houses of Congress. If this means anything at all, I don't know. If I've learned anything at all about American governance in my 34.999 years on this planet, it's that very few people know what Liberalism is anymore--sometimes even people who accept the label don't know. If I haven't removed the links on the right side of the screen (I'm not going to check--I've been away from this thing so long I've forgotten how Blogger works), I think there's a link to the full text of the US Constitution--the most radically Liberal document of its kind. Until the 18^th Amendment broke the streak. We recovered our sanity, thankfully.

Now--can someone explain to me what a Libertarian is and why their name makes my skin crawl? I know Penn and Teller are Libertarians, and I feel safe with them around, but the Cato Institute they belong to was chaired by none other than Rupert Murdoch at one point*. And to answer their question about why Liberals "hate" (my word is "distrust", but I'll grumble and fall silent...) Wal-Mart; Two words: Vlassic Pickles. Look that up, too. Wal-Marts aren't the life-giving, spectral class G2V stars in the Retail Galaxy--they're the space-time crushing singularities! (But man have they got some good deals, don't they?)





*Not! He was only on its board of directors! What did I tell you about my research?