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By: verbal

verbal — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 12:56:38 +0000

Murph: I think he’s a disingenuous fathead whose proper forum is messageboard trolling, not a respectable newspaper.

By: Murph

Murph — Thu, 28 Aug 2008 12:01:51 +0000

Let me see if I understand this. You don’t like or agree with his opinion, therefore it should not be published. Is that right?

By: Michael Wolf

Michael Wolf — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 23:47:07 +0000

I guess there are libertarians like that: counterparts to chardonnay socialists, you could say. But overall it’s an unfair characterization. It’s people (not everybody, of course) with mainstream political opinions who favor isolationism and are against foreign trade and immigration, at least when they’re inconvenient. Or who demand, naively in my opinion, that the government continue to provide services that they’ve never actually been happy with (think: schools, transportation infrastructure, public health care, etc).

On the other hand, since you have to pay taxes whether you want to or not, it isn’t entirely unreasonable or hypocritical to grouse when you don’t feel you’re getting nearly your money’s worth.

But at least we’re in agreement about Jacoby.

By: verbal

verbal — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 22:54:00 +0000

Libertarians are the thirteen-year-olds of the political universe: “Leave me alone! I’m totally independent! I don’t need you! Drive me to the mall! Rescue my storm-ravaged city! Now go away!”

Yes, I do suspect that Jacoby is a paper tiger installed by the Globe to provide an illusion of balance.

By: Michael Wolf

Michael Wolf — Wed, 27 Aug 2008 20:59:29 +0000

Are you serious?

Libertarians believe in the rule of law, distinct from statute, which rules out most of the third world.

Jeff Jacoby is no libertarian.

The Globe hired Jacoby to represent the other prevailing point of view in America because he’s an intellectual lightweight.

Surely you know all that.

As to libertarian ideas being tantamount to a seventh-grader’s: I can’t come up with a response without resorting to even nastier name-calling. My failing entirely. So sorry.