From RR

• The state as Helen Lovejoy: ‘Somebody think of the children!’ Sure. Encourage them to be promiscuous but preach that tobacco is evil. I don’t like Big Tobacco either (and the Mad Men used to lie about smoking being safe before they got busted) but circa-1960 got this right: do things at your own risk but nobody goes to hell for smoking, and broken homes and illegitimacy are far bigger social evils. The state should leave moral truth to religion.
• Vermont: man jailed for crossing street which happens to be the Canadian border. “I walked over to Canada on a Saturday night around quarter to nine to get a pizza,” Buzz Roy explained. Obviously a terrorist. Sure.
• Libertarianism and social justice.
• Might government health care buy off old Tea Partiers?
• How our entire economy became a Ponzi scheme.

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