There’s been a lot of talk over the past few weeks about government power and the nanny state and how dangerous a world government would be. As I’ve stated in prior posts, I’m a libertarian. This means and I hate and distrust government with a great deal of gusto. However, this does not mean that I am blind to one glaring reality about humanity: over time, we organize from smaller groups into large ones. As a Libertarian,...

First, let me preface this by saying I am the least political person on the planet–in fact, ask Shawn. When the discussion of politics comes about I immediately start drooling, my eyes roll back into my head after they turn glassy and if I don’t go into a coma right then and there I twitch off some place politic safe. That out of the way, let me point out to you this delightful article written by Ms. Luscombe for Time magazine:...

As I’ve posted here before, I’ve been a conservative for a very very long time. Without going into too much fine detail my primary reasons center around less intrusive government and lower taxes. Basically, I’m the kind of conservative that doesn’t care whether you screw 6 hookers high on shrooms as long as you keep my taxes low and don’t expect me to pay for your health care. Until recently I have considered...

I’m a conservative. Now, before you go throwing bricks and knives and midgets at me let me say that I’m a staunch (maybe rabid) atheist, I’m pro-choice, pro-drug legalization and crazy opposed to any sort of government censorship, of the internet or *anything*. I’m conservative in the original sense of the term: I believe that the job of the government is to stay the hell out of the way and do as few things as possible. But I’m...