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[jazzfish]

Warren and Jimmy, together again for the first time: "In fact, the singer has also been friends with Warren Buffett, Berkshire's 74-year-old chairman and chief executive, for more than 20 years, both men say. . . . They have even performed music together."

Slippage: "This is the agenda self-styled neolibertarians end up advancing. I don’t believe they mean to, but when they decide that 'the war comes first' and worry more about being anti-left than anti-state, when they oppose torture in the abstract but Democratic-Party opposition to torture in practice, they become volunteer auxiliaries of an expansive notion of the government’s police power." --and in just over five hundred words, Jim Henley sums up my issues with Republican "libertarians."

By this point I'm almost certainly talking only to myself, but Kevin Drum once more hammers home the point that it's the malpractice insurance, not the "tort reform."

jonny_law writes about Deep Throat and why we're unlikely to see another one, so I don't have to.

And I totally win the argument about the proper order of the Narnia books.

Comments

[jadelennox]

Lewis saying the books should be read in chronological order, is, in my ever so humble opinion, evidence that the Author's Intent can be bunk. As I less than two minutes ago just finished rereading Magician's Nephew, and oh my, is it ever so not the book to start with.

[dasphios.livejournal.com]

While I'm inclined to agree with your conclusion, don't be so quick to dismiss the words of a disciple of Chesterton. There's meaning in their works that even they don't know about, but that lack of knowlegde is only concious.

[jonny-law.livejournal.com]

I recommend that you find a copy of George Lakoff's Moral Politics and skim through at least the first half, which defines the two family views. Libertarians are the ur-Strict-Father moralists. Just as a strict father must do somethings that are harsh and unloving to protect his children and set them on the moral right path, unbridled police power may be used to protect the people and prevent them from committing immoral, treasonous actions like aiding the enemy or supporting tolerance of immorality by voting Democrat. To say that government stormtroopers should be limited like Big Government is to say that a father shouldn't be able to beat his child within an inch of his life for being disobedient.