Eugene David<br>...The One-Minute Pundit

Posted 6:26 PM by Gene

SLAVES TO SOME DEFUNCT ECONOMIST: "REASON".com tries to counter the lockstep thinking of the TWXSTERS' putative flaghsip with lockstep thinking of its own (drugs aren't bad, porn isn't bad, blahblahblah), which reminds me of a quote I posted before from P. J. O'Rourke, via Joe Queenan:

Once described as “the funniest writer in America” by Time and The Wall Street Journal, O’Rourke suspects that this raised his profile among libertarians, who for some reason think of themselves as a pack of wild cutups.

“There’s a nutty side to libertarians, starting with the Big Girl, Ayn Rand, and going straight through Alan Greenspan,” O’Rourke told me over the phone. “When I go to Cato Institute functions, there’s always a group of guys who look like they cut their own hair and get their mothers to dress them, with lots of buttons about legalizing heroin and demanding a return to the gold standard. The institute has tried to weed them out over the years, but they still turn up at the bigger events. As soon as I see them coming toward me, my heart sinks.” [Emphasis again added]

I might further add that even that former WIZARD OF OZ believes Milty Friedman is a god no longer.

P. S.

Though I'd flashed by the article somewhere and paid it no mind because I already knew its contents by heart I clicked on it through a ZEITGEIST.com link, meaning we won't ever criticize ITS dubious covers. A NEUHARTHISM OF THE WEEK AWARD TO JEFF, RADLEY AND JONBOY!