“extreme latitude [of] being [ ] essentially [a] ghost with-an-erection…”

Something written by a particularly brilliant friend of mine (nom de plum “Shulamite”).

Sorry to see you do it, Will. Sorry to see you give in to the Left’s hyperbole and scare mongering. Seems pretty effective though.

But hey! After all, porn is just as popular in the Red states as in the Blue, right? Won’t then legions of single-handed keyboard users (!) across the fruited plain vote out the scum politicians who would dare abrogate their prurient delights?

Will’s daliance with DLC gives further proof of a phenomenon to have been under scrutiny by certain people for quite some time: radical libertarianism — as a revolt against Progressivism — unwittingly radicalizes Progressivism/Statism. It occurs precisely for reasons adumbrated in the quote above: Flouting and confusing the distinction (and inherent connection) between the moral law and the political.

The political is, alas, not “neutral” (not in the Rawlsian sense; it is, however, neutral by virtue of claiming to be final arbiter. But the law is partisan with respect its own interest, i.e. the moral cause of its own survival and promulgation).

P.S. Don’t get me wrong, I’m all in favor of the freedoms — porn and everything — which you seek to defend. Cashiering many other liberties in exchange for the extreme latitude being an essentially ghost with-an-erection seems somehow pretty dehumanizing. One can pretty much enjoy sexual abandon to one’s anarchic delight in socialist Berlin and Stockholm, after all.

As much as I dislike the social conservatives, it’s their economically/fiscally “liberal” tendencies that drives me away from the Republicans. Unfortunately, unlike on the social issues, I can’t find refuge in the Democrats.

Social conservatives have been fighting a losing battle for 50 years, so I’m not too concerned about their latest stupidities.

As much as I dislike the social conservatives, it’s their economically/fiscally “liberal” tendencies that drives me away from the Republicans. Unfortunately, unlike on the social issues, I can’t find refuge in the Democrats.

Social conservatives have been fighting a losing battle for 50 years, so I’m not too concerned about their latest stupidities.

Something written by a particularly brilliant friend of mine (nom de plum “Shulamite”).

Sorry to see you do it, Will. Sorry to see you give in to the Left’s hyperbole and scare mongering. Seems pretty effective though.

But hey! After all, porn is just as popular in the Red states as in the Blue, right? Won’t then legions of single-handed keyboard users (!) across the fruited plain vote out the scum politicians who would dare abrogate their prurient delights?

Will’s daliance with DLC gives further proof of a phenomenon to have been under scrutiny by certain people for quite some time: radical libertarianism — as a revolt against Progressivism — unwittingly radicalizes Progressivism/Statism. It occurs precisely for reasons adumbrated in the quote above: Flouting and confusing the distinction (and inherent connection) between the moral law and the political.

The political is, alas, not “neutral” (not in the Rawlsian sense; it is, however, neutral by virtue of claiming to be final arbiter. But the law is partisan with respect its own interest, i.e. the moral cause of its own survival and promulgation).

P.S. Don’t get me wrong, I’m all in favor of the freedoms — porn and everything — which you seek to defend. Cashiering many other liberties in exchange for the extreme latitude being an essentially ghost with-an-erection seems somehow pretty dehumanizing. One can pretty much enjoy sexual abandon to one’s anarchic delight in socialist Berlin and Stockholm, after all.