Who’s eating all the sharks?
Archive for June 6th, 2007
Celebutard–from the petition to cage Hilton, by the Idahoans for the permanent incarceration of Paris Hilton. Check out the revolving quotations from Paris in her jailbird garb at the upper left, gems like, “The British have plain names and that works pretty well for them over there.”
Celebutard. Has a more excellent coinage ever existed?
From Ace (who else?)
is from Cafe Hayek (hat tip to Maggie’s Farm):
Of course, that’s how the nanny state grows. It’s just not worth fighting any one infringement of liberty. So no, I’m not going to fight for the right to buy a locally-baked pastry with good mouth feel.
But I will fight against the idea that the Montgomery County Council has the right to ban trans-fats. That’s why I’m writing this post. That’s why I mention it to my neighbors. It requires a bit of schizophrenia. But it’s healthy. I don’t care about trans-fats, but I care about the ban. I care about the principle.
The principle is tricky. It’s not the right to eat trans-fats. The principle is that I don’t want powerful people to decide what I do with my body or my life. Those are my responsibility. They are my responsibility because that’s what adulthood is. Adulthood is being responsible for the risks you take, reaping the rewards and enduring the costs.
Do read the whole thing.
Hitchens eviscerates a sniveling, terrorist-supporting leftist (hat tip to David Thompson):
to announcing a run, that is. Fred Thompson has put up a campaign site.
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