lib•er•tar•ian: Two roads diverged in a wood…:

Kos Libertarians believe do not need a government small enough to drown in a bathtub as Grover Norquist famously said. Rather, we need a government that is as small as possible, while still allowing it to act as a check against corporate power.

Or we could just get rid of governments and corporations. “You reject these powerful organizations here that restrict our liberties, but there are those powerful organizations over there that also restrict our liberties so we need the first powerful organizations to protect us from the other ones, which we can be sure they’ll do because….” No. Reject all those motherfuckers.

Personally, I think we ought to make the government so small we can just flush it down the fucking toilet.

As long as I’m filling my blog with stuff from my ill-advised perusals of Daily Kos, here’s Kos himself:

Ultimately, the best chance at securing our nation’s security is to become energy self-sufficient….

Oh ho ho. Ho ho ho. Securing our nation’s security. Heh.

I recently worked at a movie theater while looking for a better job. One day the theater showed a documentary about Darfur, after which there was a roundtable discussion led by this guy from some think tank in Indianapolis that hosted the showing. So this guy started the discussion explaining how difficult and complicated Darfur’s problems are compared to, say, Iraq’s problems. See, the solution to Iraq’s problems are simple. Really. You know what the solution to Iraq’s problem is? Get rid of the oil! Wave your magic wand or something and disappear all the oil, and then — what? Without that precious natural resource to lust after, we would abandon our imperial ambitions? Right.

Or we could just pay a fair price for the oil! How does that never ever occur to people as they cry over energy dependence and national security?

Imperialism and terrorism are not necessary physical consequences of the existence of oil. Nor would a lack of oil necessarily make them disappear. We’ll burn the last drop of oil long before we run out of reasons to murder and subjugate each other.