Posted 5:09 PM by Gene

Sorry, Andy S., your NEW-WAVE CONSERVATISM is glibertarian. I define the glibertarian as embracing the worst of the knee-jerk liberal (laissez-faire morals) with the worst of the knee-jerk conservative (laissez-faire capitalism), mixed with a healthy dose of conceit. Furthermore, Dr. Brian's rancid stew of REVIVED CONSERVATISM (may we call it ANDYISM?) includes RUPERT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!, FOX!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!News, Dennis Miller (didn't he get booted off MNF?), WALTER WINCHELL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!, big-name blogs (oiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiii!), and (all too predictably enough) South Park, the BRAVEHEART!!!!!!!!! of comedy -- in other words, ALL THE SHOW-BIZZY LOUDMOUTHS THAT OUGHT TO SHUT UP. (Also predictably enough, while FOX!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! appears in the article fourteen times, and South Park appears sixteen times, abortion appears once, and Reagan -- not at all.) This sort of trend-foisting by numbers got suitably lambasted by Jack Shafer in Kinsley.com, and it's even worse when knee-jerk conservatives do it.

P. S. This expostulating clown "has a Ph.D. in political philosophy from the University of Ottawa, and an M.A. and B.A. from Boston College," which means some people simply can't graduate from higher education.

P. P. S. I notice that a paragraph involving Andy S. appears in a different font. Did you vet this with him at the last minute for his blogging approval, Dr. Brian?

P. P. P. S. This is from City Journal, which has proposed plunking dull neo-classical buildings on Lincoln Center and Ground Zero. I guess this is its version of getting a tattoo and a belly-button ring.

P. P. P. P. S. Except for the aside to Andy S., I'd bet this word processing demonstration went to bed long before Rush quit and Gregg got fired from ESPCN, two acts that prove PC LIVES.