I’m sorry if I jumped on you without warning in one of Ilana’s other posts. It’s just that sometimes I really do feel like a Jew in Germany on the eve of the Night of Breaking Glass.

I detest my present state & am & will continue to array myself, with whatever assets I have at my disposal, against those who would turn the state’s assets towards destructions of the medically disabled or partially disabled.

What I have going for me in my favor, metaphorically speaking, is that I’m disabled in a Darth Vader kind of way:

“I find your domestic policy…disturbing…”

But it’s still scary & humiliating & a source of rage that someone with my capabilities is persistently passed over for things I can do, with ability & panache, because of extraneous physical limitations.

IGN bloody near killed me.

I stuck with those punks because I’d signed contracts, because the checks arrived on time & because the trivial nonsense I did for them made it possible for me to work locally as a reporter, in NJ & PA, covering stuff that mattered, or mattered enough. And my local employers paid me squat.

My attack was one of experience & principle, sir, and it was not meant to be an attack on your character, Alex.

If it came off that way, it was a consequence of fear, the sort of fear generated by basically decent but il-liberally educated folks who deconstruct complexities into soundbites.

I respect you enough, Alex, that I feel comfortable saying this:

You bring that weak smack into the zone again, baby, and I’ll swat it out into the third row.

I only do that for friends.

Boo-YAH,

G

Some folks seem to think that male genital mutilation and it’s implications is hilarious. I’m not one of them…

The libertarian/classical liberal movement has been forced into the underground (internet) because we don’t support welfare or warfare. We *sometimes* support warfare – there is such a thing as a Just War – but it’s pretty scarce, and we *never* support Welfare, which is becoming institutionalized at a faster degree, even by those who are supposed to be it’s defendes. Who would have thought that conservatives would ever gush about ‘privatizing’ social security? This the dumbest and most cowardly thing; conservatives shouldn’t look to conserve liberal institutions, for one, and secondly, there is no such thing as a private-public institution. Forced savings through the State is a method of the State; it doesn’t matter if these savings are channeled into ‘private’ areas of industry or investment.

I’d like to see Ilana in print, but I guess there is a little bit of a relief that she is not. Some years ago I ready many books on the philosophy of liberty, taking me from market anarchism to my current state of classical liberal in the Mises tradition. In all the dozens of articles that I read, and books that I perused, I became jaded and quite tired out. I decided to take an extended leave of the liberty movement, because it’s tiring work. I manage to keep my views to myself, because there are so many uneducated people that I would end up butting heads or taking large amounts of time from my day to argue or talk with people. I’m pretty mellow, so this doesn’t interest me.

Ilana’s writing in print might start some fire around where I work, and I know someone would disagree with her, prompting me to jump in and defend her viewpoint. I can take a pass on not telling people about classical liberalism, but I can’t seem to avoid correcting them when they take stances contrary to the idea of liberty. But it’s tiring work. I’m sure you know. [Oh, God, yes]

I will now return to my status as the ‘hidden’ true liberal..

It’s all well and good to say that the Femminazis will grow to a well deserved miserable old age but while they’re doing it they are making fveryone around them miserable too. Especially any unfortunate male things who are in their lives.

I had to quit going to that church as a result.

It’d be wierd to see Ilana in print, BTW. [Why? I started in print, as you can see from my bio. Here’s my last printed piece in The Ottawa Citizen: A Vacation from Reality. Before demand-driven low standards and boring became a requirement on American op-ed pages, “Creators” even tried to syndicate me. I speak about it in “How Sexist Are Libertarian Men?” If I had you guys then, I suspect the syndication would have worked.]

If you ever feel like trying print again, I expect you’d make a fine bureau chief. If you hit the Coastal Florida area (either side), you might actually draw a salary & benefits nominally commensurate with your capabilities. And bureaus are a lot of fun in a Dirty Dozen kind of way.

[I try all the time. But due to this factor–scroll down to my comment about editors and other mediocre gatekeepers–I’ve had no luck. Send me an offer!]Â Â