Finally, a pic of me on the damn scooter. I feel ambivalent about the Che shirt. It’s a great image, and I like that it’s not the standard version of that picture. On the other hand, Che is neither a role model for me nor a new, fresh, or shocking person to put on a shirt. Even the shirts featuring the same treatment of Doctor Zaius, Kramer, and so forth, have gotten a little old.
Krugman had a great article in the NYT last week about the tax-decrease ploy, and he’s pretty scared about the long-term stability of the US government. You look at where Bush is leading us, and it’s to the kind of place where a revolution begins to make sense: where the poor really have nothing to lose. I feel like I’m going to be fine– good skills, no debt, no responsibilities, parents to fall back on. But I don’t want to live in a country that screws the poor the way the right is trying to.
You want to talk entitlement reform? First off, the retirement age is rising to 70, and we’re going to means-test Social Security and medical benefits (Medicare? Medicaid? I can’t remember which is which). That’s obvious to me– I don’t care how unpalatable it is, we’re going to see it happen in the next fifteen years, even if we also raise taxes to avoid defaulting on debts.
If I meet another Libertarian in the street I swear I’m going to kick them in the nuts and then ask them if they want the government to protect them from violent crime.
Secretly Ironic 