Good Stuff From The Internet

Once again, it's time to purge the photo files.....
Most of these are from Libertarian Reddit, Facebook, Instapundit, or emails. 

This one is for my little Aggie, who has been a Denver Broncos fan since the earliest days of the John Elway era. 

I'm from Drew, Mississippi, home of Archie Manning, father of Peyton and Eli (and Cooper). 

The Aggie is SICK of hearing about Mannings and their Super Bowl wins. 

This one is for her. 

Looks like an almost perfect correlation to me !!

You either think that this photo is funny, or you don't. 

How's that Hope'n'Change working out for you????

"Invisible Backhand", this one is for you.  I really do like having you around. 

This one isn't apropos of anything, really.  I just thought it was odd. 

I got ordained.  Let me know if you need marrying or burying. 

Gag me with a dirty diaper. 

P.J. O'Rourke on Libertarians

P.J. O'Rourke has penned an essay on the Koch brothers' attempt to take over the revered Cato Institute (which was founded with a lot of Koch brothers startup money, BTW.) 
The essay is good, but the best part is where he describes the thinking, behavior, and all-around hardheadedness of my chosen tribe:

And Cato couldn’t be involved in partisan politics. Everyone there is a libertarian. You might as well command your cat to bring you your pajamas as tell a bunch of libertarians to get on the same political platform. I know these people. Ron Paul is a bien-pensant by comparison. Cato scholars prize contentious thought. Get in a debate with one and you’ll find out he doesn’t even agree with himself.


This is why I'm generally opposed to some of the "Purity Tests" that some of my co-libs want to apply to guest speakers, candidates and policies.  Because there really isn't a policy that will perfectly reflect what Milton Friedman said on page 309 and what Henry Hazlitt really meant on page 106 and the content of that Hayek speech from 1946, AND that plank in the party platform that we put in place just to end the freakin' meeting .  Sometimes, the Best really can be the enemy of the Good Enough For Now. 
Here's some more P.J.

More to the point, the Koch brothers will lose the think tank’s impressive roster of thinkers and scholars. I haven’t polled them as to who would stay and who would go under a Koch regime. But, as I said, I know libertarians. If the Kochs win the pot, they’ll have to piss in it. It will be empty otherwise.


Meanwhile we neocons and paleocons and rank-and-file Republicans should understand how important Cato is. Libertarianism is of great worth even to those who consider Atlas Shrugged useful mainly as dead weight to keep the tarp on the above-ground pool from blowing away.

It can be said, with some justice, that libertarians apply only one measure to every issue. But what a sublime yardstick it is. Libertarians ask, about each thing they encounter in public life, “Does this promote the liberty, responsibility, and dignity of the individual?” Libertarianism can have political implications, but politics is, by definition, mass action. And libertarians don’t believe in the masses. They believe in the individuals huddled in those masses. A pure libertarian is opposed to politics down to the soles of his shoes (or, libertarians being libertarians, down to the bottom of his sandals worn with socks). Libertarianism is contra-political, an emetic dose to be given to politics. As we’ve seen lately, all politics needs one sometimes.

Precisely.  If it really matters who wins these upcoming elections, then our government is too big. 
Vote for the emetic.  Vote Libertarian !!!!