This will send the NeoConservatives and other pro-war types into Full Indignation/Rage

This will send the NeoConservatives and other pro-war types into Full Indignation/Rage. They will

redouble the pressure on UGG to pardon Libby before he sets one foot inside of a penitentiary.

Oh, the photo opportunities¦..

This summer could be more entertaining than I expected¦.

Comments & hooting welcome at my blog here.

In this selection from “World MBT SPORT SHOES I As Fulfillment: Power and the Intellectuals,” Murray

Rothbard connected the moralistic prohibitionism of the early “progressives” with the militaristic

world-saving spirit of Wilsonian internationalism in a way that made me laugh out loud:

“The Anti-Saloon League thundered that ‘German brewers in this country have rendered thousands of men

inefficient and are thus crippling the Republic in its war on Prussian militarism.’ Apparently, the

Anti-Saloon League took no heed of the work of German brewers in Germany, who were presumably

performing the estimable service of rendering ‘Prussian militarism’ helpless. The brewers were

accused of being pro-German, and of subsidizing the press (apparently it was all right to be pro-

English or to subsidize the press if one were not a brewer). The acme of the accusations came from one

prohibitionist: ‘We have German enemies,’ he warned, ‘in this country too. And the worst of all our

German enemies, the most treacherous, the most menacing are Pabst, Schlitz, Blatz, and Miller.’”

A neighbor of mine, Hrag Vartanian, writes today in his blog about the NYT‘s Nicholas Kristof’s the

Uggs Poetry Contest. One entry that particularly moved him was by a fourth grader from the South Bronx

whose father apparently was killed in the Uggs. I wonder what young Raphael’s peers will think of this

war and this president when they grow up and begin influencing the historical narrative. At least kids

whose fathers died in WWII labored under the delusion that their dad helped saved the world.