...I guess it's just too high-brow for me.

@blankfist is a shopping mall "public" or "private"? Is a grocery store "public" or "private"? Is it "private" in the same context as my house, my bedroom, my bathroom, my body? I've never understood why libertarians deny that there is a spectrum of ownership ranging from, say the air (the ultimate public property), and your own body (the ultimate private property), with lots of blurry categories in between.

Also, the usual argument against public services, and in favor of market-based ones is that free markets provide those services more efficiently to a community. Libertarians seem to think that we should also reward the people who provide those services with dictatorial power over the people who rely on those services as well, which seems like a bad deal, liberty-wise.

Anyways, I was stopping by this post for another reason. Was going to toss in some high-brow to go with my low-brow:

http://crookedtimber.org/2010/05/25/conservative-principle-and-the-rhetoric-of-principle/

I'm more interested in your thoughts on that, than my cartoons.

Yeah one of my mates had the same thing to say pretty much bud did you watch the vid or just listen to it? A lot of the humor of this bit is in the acting, I think. Also I Loove comedians who riff on ideas. For example, Jimmy Carr is a well recognised comedian, loved the world over and scores highly on the sporadicly high-brow (did I get that right or is my prole showing?) http://www.videosift.com , yet I hate him and would only vote for a video if him if it contained footage of his head exploding, BECAUSE he is a one liner. He never RIFFS on a idea. Just one joke and he moves on. Every comedian that I think is good can grab hold of an idea and tear it to bits until theres nothing left to ridicule
>> ^ulysses1904:

3 minutes on one punchline. Paula Poundstone did this bit first.

Despite the title, nothing as high-brow as the word "collectivism" is ever spoken in this clip.

They fail to even mention that under the evil Stalinist collectivist Kennedy and LBJ, the Cold War was really just a struggle between the world's two largest communist dystopias!

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Thanks! Farted.

In reply to this comment by kronosposeidon:
*quality NPR shit. I bet ya blankfist secretly donates money to PBS too.

You have such high-brow humor, lucky.

Low brow, high brow -- who gives a fuck. Belech, fart and then kick someone in the nuts, or point out that sociology is just applied psychology and that psychology is just applied biology and that biology is just applied chemistry and that chemistry is just applied physics and that really mathematicians are at the top of the ladder: it's all stress release and the lightness of life made manifest. I love fat Jesus!

Yeah, I hate you too. Now run along and play with rottenseed's genitals.

In reply to this comment by blankfist:
Ah, work has been kicking my ever-loving ass. I barely manage to post videos any more. Busy is good, I suppose, though I'm in need of a well deserved vacation.

I hate you, by the way.

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De nada. It was really just a test to see if you're still alive. Fucker.

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Thanks, brief wheels!

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*promote NPR goodness

Ah, work has been kicking my ever-loving ass. I barely manage to post videos any more. Busy is good, I suppose, though I'm in need of a well deserved vacation.

I hate you, by the way.

In reply to this comment by kronosposeidon:
De nada. It was really just a test to see if you're still alive. Fucker.

In reply to this comment by blankfist:
Thanks, brief wheels!

In reply to this comment by kronosposeidon:
*promote NPR goodness

De nada. It was really just a test to see if you're still alive. Fucker.

In reply to this comment by blankfist:
Thanks, brief wheels!

In reply to this comment by kronosposeidon:
*promote NPR goodness

Thanks, brief wheels!

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*promote NPR goodness

this is old. but still good high brow female humor, no?

Aljazeera has gone from typecast hate press to high brow balanced reportage. And I don't remember when it happened.