Thomas Ball remained self-possessed enough to turn his rage on himself and not against others. RIP.

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Thanks for the link. Good luck to your Senator Nugent.

What’s sad is listening to all the lefties moan about this study, asking why factors like “the freedom to change employers without the fear of losing your healthcare coverage”…

Is it that hard to understand the difference between freedom from coercion and freedom from consequences? Or is their worldview so twisted that words are turned upside down and lose their meaning? (hint: those were rhetorical questions)”

I was about to respond with a comment about John Dewey and his marxian style redefinition of freedom, until I read your last line and saw you were already there.

It is of course “people like you” with your retrogressive and emotionally immature attachment to guns, God, and that blasted charter of negative (-ly formulated) liberties, that are the real problem.

Get with the program. There is nothing to protect against unwelcome change. The self is an illusion, merely matter in motion; and, real freedom is the freedom to fulfill your social obligations and exercise your potentials as a responsible element of a properly directed collective.

Where will it all lead you ask, and for what end?

Don’t worry. Answering those questions isn’t your responsibility. There are those with expertise and credentials who are better suited to that. They work in government supported institutions and are paid good money for their trouble.

Happiness is for you, in knowing your place.

So, what’s on American Idol tonight?

You’re right, freedom in California depends on who you are.

Victor Davis Hanson has been blogging about the two California’s: the regular folk who are being taxed and regulated to death, and then the recent immigrants who have been allowed to set up their third world lifestyle right here in the US. Dumping trash wherever they please, selling items on the street corner (w/no sales tax, no vendor’s license), eateries on wheels (without health inspection oversight), cobbled together shacks (no zoning approval, building code followed), etc. Utterly depressing.

We’re free because we keep all the moonbats locked up in a small northwest corner of the state.

We’re free because we keep all the union thugs locked up in a small northwest corner of the state.

We’re free because we keep all the druggies and gangbangers locked up in a small northwest corner of the state.

We’re free because I am licensed to carry a concealed loaded weapon whenever I need to visit that small northwest corner of the state.

Is it that hard to understand the difference between freedom from coercion and freedom from consequences? Or is their worldview so twisted that words are turned upside down and lose their meaning? (hint: those were rhetorical questions)