Ruminations on music, culture, America and the world stage
Only FHer off-the-chart goofballs could make a political correctness issue – to the point of poisoning the atmosphere with implications of racist caricature – out of foods that Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. actually immensely enjoyed.
The Las Vegas Review-Journal has pretty much my take on the Harry Reid “Negro dialect” dustup. It did its damage. Now it’s time to get back to his totalitarian plans for taxes, health care and the environment.
In one way, I’d love to see the how-many-homes brouhaha go to its obvious conclusion – The Chicago Marxist’s Tony Rezko problem. In another way, though, I find this kind of fracas so embarrassing that I’d like to see it die a quick death.
As was my position in my post about who took how much campaign money from oil companies, I think it’s important to shift the terms of the debate. In that post, I said oil was beautiful, a thing to be celebrated. Similarly, I think the main point ought to be how wonderful it is to have many homes, how exquisitely blessed we are to live in a society so free that our economy affords us such opportunities.
It’s imperative that when the Freedom Haters trot out an assumption about the shamefulness of something that is, on the contrary, patently wonderful, we instantly and loudly say so. We must understand that they are trying to set us up to regard these things disparagingly, so it will be easier for them to deprive us of them once they have seized the entire means of production and obliterated every last individual’s imagination, ambition and basic zest for life.
