little green footballs (lgf) had a contest to determine the following:It is my great honor to announce the winner of the First Annual Robert Fisk Award for Idiotarian of the Year (Fiskie for short). And the winner is ... There is a cartoon in that post.
Very nice, fellows. So, a Nobel Peace Prize winner, former president, and acknowledged do-gooder is an Idiotarian. And Instapundit is willing to link to it (without any commentary). Charming.
Speaking of do-gooders, we Googled around and found this abstract for the final chapter in the Cato Institute's Regulation magazine (summer 2002). Here it is: (our emphasis)The War of the We Against the Me By P. J. O'Rourke
... Upbeat is for sissy do-gooder organizations like Brookings, the U.N., and the Democratic Party. Cato is not a do-gooder organization. We're libertarians. We're not here to do good. We're here to do anything we damn well please -- and take the consequences -- because we are real advocates of freedom. Spoken like a criminal. Let's see what we can get away with. Maybe we can evade "the consequences."
Remember that the next time Bush speaks fondly of "freedom." (especially economic and regulatory freedom) Freedom to steal under a lax system. Freedom to evade, delay, or reverse enactment of consensus views on the environment, product safety, and fiscal honesty. |
