House of Eratosthenes

I call them collectivists because they won’t come up with a name for themselves. If they were to do such a thing, it would make it easier to define their ideas and what they want done. They don’t want to do that, they just want to talk about the things they don’t like — which is that some people have lots of loot, and other folks have none. Hard to disagree with that, huh? And since it’s hard to disagree with it, they become absolutists.

Which necessarily must mean, they don’t want anyone to have anything. Or at least, they don’t want anyone to have any more stuff than what anyone else has.

You were an ant, someone else was a grasshopper? You refined your skills, someone else sat on his ass all day watching Girls Gone Wild? They don’t care. Everyone should have the same amount of stuff.

Every once in awhile, though, a collectivist will get caught spouting his collectivist drivel, while at the same time hoarding…stuff. America provides a fertile ground for this, because we safeguard the absolute right to spout drivel…and to hoard stuff. For everyone. In other words, no offense can be detected until you analyze the content of the drivel being spouted, and then contrast them against the things being done by the drivel-spouter who has all this stuff.

And then the drivel-spouting collectivst gets nailed. An event of which I like to take note, when it happens. As it did this morning, when Neal Boortz handed a good zing to Yoko Ono.

By the way .. your husband wrote perhaps the most hideous song in the history of modern music. “Imagine,” I think he called it. Maybe you can show us how you feel about the insipid line “imagine no possessions” by giving away all of your stuff!

Hey…it’s a damn good question. Does she part company with her deceased husband on that line? Or did John Lennon never believe in it in the first place? Or does she think she’s above everyone else? World citizens demand to know.

By the way, Boortz is none to happy about President Bush’s new pick for the Department of Health and Human Services. Here at The Blog That Nobody Reads, we are disinclined to believe the religious right has much to say…about anything. We look at the evidence as it exists and noodle things out for ourselves, here, and the evidence shows that the religious right hasn’t managed to actually get too much done. I can still have sex in any position I want, I can still buy beer on a Sunday, you probably can too.

But Neal makes a very good point. Common sense would say — right after a stinging defeat for the Republican party, olive branches should be extended, if not to Democrats, at least to the freedom-inclined Republicans. States’ rights. School vouchers. Repeal national speed limits. Phase out the death tax. And the minimum wage, too; keep legal jobs legal.

But when the Republican party is in a position where it needs more political capital…to the churches they go. In the final analysis, nothing ever changes about our freedoms or lack thereof. But anyone watching, who is not on the extreme right themselves…is scared shitless every time. Why do they do it?

Perhaps they do need political “capital” after all, but it’s not so much political in nature, as much as floating around on that cotton-paper green stuff.

Pretty funny when you think about it. When all’s said and done, American politics is driven by money…just like anything else that is American. The money flows in on the right from the religious fundamentalists, and on the left from the phony collectivists like Yoko Ono and Chappaquiddick Ted, who say one thing and do something else. Seems to me a rather poor investment. Neither the extreme-right money people nor extreme-left money people end up with public decisions being made in any way to their liking; yet, next year, they’re back at it again.

Well, that’s what the art of compromise looks like. It seldom makes sense to anyone looking in from the outside.

None of this is a big mystery to me — except for the guy in the White House. It’s been said here, it’s been said elsewhere, many, many times. You want to win elections, stick with originalist principles. The Federal Government has the responsibility to protect the borders, so kick the illegal aliens out and keep ’em out. The Federal Government does not have the responsibility to interfere with the sovereignty of the states, in fact it has the responsibility to protect same. So follow through.

It would have worked.

So what’s up with this urgency to get a bible-thumper in charge of birth control advice? It’s sure to be an ineffectual move, but it gives the Bush-bashing media and snarky FARKers something to jaw about. And that stuff has a lot of momentum. So what is the point?

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