Tuesday, 6 September 2005 - 5:54 AM CDT

Autoerotic dia-tribe. A rambling explication of the three pillars of conservatism: I, me, and mine.

And look at the two hundred fawning lickspittles who lapped it up, believing and assuming, of course, that this guy would think they are gray and not pink. After so many years, it is depressing that people are still so easily taken in by a windy, narcissistic sociopath.

He should take Ted Williams' advice, "If you don't think too good, don't think too much."

Tuesday, 6 September 2005 - 8:44 PM CDT

If you aren't personally responsible for your own survival, then who should be?

Why is that a question that a normal American adult should have to ask another?

Sure, the Government has a major role to play in our lives and in helping us through the bad times, but a person has to stand up for himself in the instant of disaster. Everybody else comes second. That isn't avaricious Rethuglikkkan horseshit, either: that's the way it is.

Wednesday, 7 September 2005 - 5:57 AM CDT

The problem is that it is solipsistic. What is missing is any sense of social conscience, any concept of the common good. "Everybody else comes second." In its extreme form, it attracts sociopaths like Grover Norquist.

As Tom Friedman said today (Wednesday):

"An administration whose tax policy has been dominated by the toweringly selfish Grover Norquist - who has been quoted as saying: "I don't want to abolish government. I simply want to reduce it to the size where I can drag it into the bathroom and drown it in the bathtub" - doesn't have the instincts for this moment. Mr. Norquist is the only person about whom I would say this: I hope he owns property around the New Orleans levee that was never properly finished because of a lack of tax dollars. I hope his basement got flooded. And I hope that he was busy drowning government in his bathtub when the levee broke and that he had to wait for a U.S. Army helicopter to get out of town."

http://www.nytimes.com/2005/09/07/opinion/07friedman.html?hp