(pictured above, quantumushroom at his ranch picking ripe guns off his gun tree)

Rugged individualist, dissenter, VS citizen journalist and strict constructionist - quantumushroom - soldiers on against the combined forces of communism, libertarianism and scienceism here on the sift. Not one to take a hand out, he has pulled himself up by his own bootstraps - defying all known laws of physics - and earned himself a gold star.



Beyond his trademark political commentary and keen eye for videos, he also likes to write down little bits of wisdom on his page for the rest of us (I hope).


Here are a 5 things I've learned from qm:

1) Freedom isn't free, but you can actually get it pretty cheap on Ebay.

2) You have the right to your own opinion, but you do not have the right to your own facts. All facts must be leased from their respective intellectual property right holders on a month to month basis.

3) There is no such thing as a free lunch*. *except at Denny's on your birthday and Tuesdays and Wednesdays after 4pm for children under 5.

4) If you are conservative when you are young, you have no heart. If you are liberal when you are an old, you have no brain. If you are libertarian at any point in time, you lack another body part of which I cannot mention in mixed company.

5) WOLVERINES!!! (I have no idea what this means.)


Mock him at the risk of your own peril, as I suspect that even the most liberal among us know in our hearts that he is right.

In the name of bipartisanship, congrats fellow American.
http://www.videosift.com/member/quantumushroom