Back when the poor sorry s.o.b. could still write, Kurt Vonnegut Jr. wrote a marvelous short story entitled “Harrison Bergeron.”

In the near future, the cabinet-level office of “Handicapper-General” mandates the athletically gifted wear weights and restraints, the highly intelligent wear hearing-aid-type devices that emit piercing noises at random to distract trains of thought, and the overly beautiful must wear masks.

When written, this seemed delightfully absurd. Now it only seems exaggerated.

BTW, Vonnegut also wrote a story of a future wherein children could sue their parents for childhood trauma…

Let A Liberal In Your Life

(or Ode To Talk Radio – to be sung to “Let a Woman in Your Life” )

I’m an ordinary man,
who desires nothing more than just an ordinary chance, to live exactly as he likes, and do precisely what he wants…
An average man am I, of no eccentric whim, Who likes to live his life, free of strife, doing whatever he thinks is best for him,
Well… just an ordinary man…

BUT, let a liberal in your life
and a lesbo steals your wife
she’ll castrate you at once
you’ll be sounding like a dunce,
with politically correct babbling in foreign tongues
Let a liberal control facts,
you’ll be paying higher tax,
they will make your life a bore,
you’ll be listening to Al Gore,
and although you cannot stand it
the liberals will command it until you fall asleep and snore
You want to see a game of football
or go shooting with a gun
Instead you’ll march for gay adoption
Which is their idea of fun
Let a liberal run the show
And they’ll steal all your dough
They will want their wedding bands
Only on same sex hands
I would rather clean latrines
Than to see the gay Marines
And to ever let a liberal in my life

I’m a very gentle man,
even-tempered and good-natured whom you never hear complain,
Who has the milk of human kindness by the quart in every vein,
A patient man am I, down to my fingertips,
The sort who never could, never would,
let an insulting remark escape his lips. A very gentle man.

But let a liberal run your school
And PC will be the rule
They will fill the school with commies
Teaching “Heather Has Two Mommies”
And insist that every Christian is a fool
You would like to go and worship
They will tell you that’s a crime
They won’t let you read the Bible
You’ll be reading porno slime
Let the liberals get their way
You’ll regret it every day
I’d put up with nuclear fission
Than the news on television
And to ever let the liberals get their way

I’m a patriotic man
who loves the mountains the praries and the sea and loves everyone here in the land of the brave and free
A pious man am I, who likes to meditate
contemplate, appreciate
just why America is so great.
Just a patriotic man.

But let the liberals run us all
And the county takes the fall
And the guy who’s called Osama
Will be dancing with your Mamma
And you’ll be cross dressing at the gay rights ball
The blacks and the latinos
Will take away your high paying jobs
While you get indoctrinated
With the other white male slobs
Let the liberals in your life
Let the liberals in your life!
Let the liberals in your life!!
I shall never let the liberals in my life

[Fabulous.]

As I’ve said elsewhere, the Republican Party exists to be a vehicle of conservatism. If it ceases to be such a vehicle, it deserves to be crushed. What is important is the people and the nation, in that order, not some party that may or may not speak for us.

Mark was a rare man.

[He could get quite abrupt, but he was quite a character. I used to go on once weekly.]

But someone planted a thought-virus. I only hear snippets, but I know I heard a reference to Atlas Shrugged, and to some Austrian economists on his show. That means he can read, and if he ever actually finished Atlas Shrugged, the contradictions in his own thought processes will continually nag at him. I think it has been working — there has been a gradual shift away from reflexive party-line cheerleading. Whether he ever actually comes all the way out into the light remains to be seen.

When Rush first came on the air in Detroit, it was right after Mark Scott — a fire-breathing objectivist warrior. Rush couldn’t hold a candle to him, and looked bad in comparison. Mark Scott passed away not too long ago, and he is sorely missed. [Yes, i used to be a guest on his show.–IM]

That was another excellent column. I always enjoy your skill with language even if I have to look up words. Also appreciated are the links that illuminate your references. Thanks.

The “New Deal” resulted from the economic catastrophe caused by the government backed banking cartel. Get a clue, Rush, thieving socialism resulted from government backed thieving bankers.

Take on the bankers, Rush, and I might start listening to you again.

“The only power any government has is the power to crack down on criminals. Well, when there aren’t enough criminals, one makes them. One declares so many things to be a crime that it becomes impossible for men to live without breaking laws.”
Ayn Rand