5/26/2006

MishMash
Filed under: General — nobrainer @ 12:54 pm
  • You know the Republican’s in Congress are in trouble when they’re getting lectured and made to look disgustingly liberal — and rightly so — on free markets and rule of law by the Democratic Congressman from Massachussetts Barney Frank. Mike has the writeup.
  • Not surprisingly, the editors at National Review are dumbfounded as to why any Replublicans would have anything to do with defending alleged swindler, Democrat William J. Jefferson. Of course, why would a Congressman from the other party be interested in making sure that physical investigations aren’t made in Congressional offices without Congressional oversight? I’m reminded of a song from South Park. I think it goes, “dumb dumb dumb dumb.”
  • I dug follow excerpt from Jonah Goldberg in his recent column about the so-called “Robber Barons”:

    Cotton magnate Edward Atkinson spelled it out. “Through competition among capitalists,” he wrote, “capital itself is every year more effective in production, and tends ever to increasing abundance. Under its working the commodities that have been the luxuries of one generation become the comforts of the next and the necessities of the third. . . . The plane of what constitutes a comfortable subsistence is constantly rising, and as the years go by greater and greater numbers attain this plane.”

    Kudlow liked it, too.

  • And from the mind of someone who I’m guessing is screwed up and Canadian, but I repeat myself, Geoff Matthews suggests that prostitution should be kept illegal, because making it legal would put the issue in the hands of “meddling politicians” who presumably made it illegal to start with. Besides, he argues, if it was legal it wouldn’t be any fun because you wouldn’t be breaking the law. Things would be safer. And safe things aren’t fun. Prostitution needs danger and a bit of the unknown. Having sex with a hooker is more fun because maybe she has a disease, maybe you’ll end up beaten-up and robbed, maybe she isn’t a she! What a good time — disease carrying gun-packing gun-packers! I can’t believe I’m not a paying customer already!