You don’t know me…
Every once and a while I feel the need to correct some wrong assumptions about me among my ever growing readership.
(What are they growing? Considering some of the comments I get, cialis canada medicine I’d say mostly pot.)
First and foremost is the perception that I’m a Conservative.
I’m not.
I consider myself a realistic libertarian. I think taxation is theft, sildenafil illness proper authority is an oxymoron, and government is intrinsically repressive.
On the other hand, I recognize that most people can’t be trusted to live by the Golden Rule unless that rule is forced upon them by the rest of us. (And make no mistake, all government is based on the threat of force.)
Whiel I grudgingly conceed the necessity for some form of government, I think it has very, very few legitimate uses. Ensuring a level playing field? Yes. Redistribution of wealth? No.
I’m fanatically in favor of both freedom of speech AND the right to keep and bear arms. In fact, I think the first can only be ensured by the second.
I think Roe vs. Wade is right up there with Dredd Scott when it comes to bad Supreme Court decisions. (But I don’t want abortion to be illegal. I just want it to be unthinkable.)
I’m an agnostic and evolutionist who thinks people should be able to believe anything they want as long as they don’t try to make me live by their beliefs.
I’m not in favor of the Iraq War, but I think the idea of “cutting and running” is naive and ultimately counterproductive.
In general, here’s a quick list of things my Conservative readers would disagree with me on:
- God
- Evolution
- Drug laws
- Conversion of farmland to McMansions (I hate it)
- Smoking bans (I love them)
- George Bush has been a lousy president
Here’s a quick list of things my Liberal readers would disagree with me on:
- Everything else
When all is said in done, the best description of my attitude on this blog and in my life was probably provided by the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel’s now defunct Spivak and Bice blog, who wrote that I am a:
“blogger who often takes a contrarian view of life and politics”
And who am I to disagree?
8 comments October 1st, 2007