So my excuse for poor blogging today is that I'm trying to "work" while keeping at least one nosehair in the mess that is the implosion of the Obama Halo of Perfectedness. It's Hard, I tell you! Anyway, I got turned on to this bullshit post over at a place I adore and respect, and I've been having fun there all day. While not making money, that is, the better to pay taxes for bankers to have Hermes-appointed ass warmers.

Being Serious: now, like never before, is the time to kill the "libertarian" ideology for the bullshit it truly is. Hello? Massive numbers of the newly unemployed aren't so hateful of "government handouts" when its their house/job/health car on the line, yo? Don't get me wrong: for a "progressive," I'm actually pretty conservative, and I've defended Libs here more than once, and tend to agree with some of their...let's call them more "nascent" points. But I will not ever accept that a "tax free" society is some kind of utopian solution. It's just a stupid idea.

I've said time and time again: Libs are our friends; they just don't know it. It's a simple matter of making them understand who is really ripping them off. As you know, it's not Scary Brown People or Shiftless Welfare Immigrants. I ask again, how do we convince them of that? Because, as a friend of mine likes to say, "the rich stay in power by convincing one half of the poor to kill the other half." The debate between true progressives and uninformed libertarians seems very much like that to me, in this country. Feel free to flame away at my stupidity.