Even though I call her “The Princess of Moosylvania,” my friend Tengrain at Mock, Paper, Scissors is undoubtedly closer to the mark, when he calls her “Mooselini.” Paid for by … gee, who? Il Mooché showed up via private jet in Madison, Wisconsin on Saturday for the obligatory Koch/Tea “tax day” protest. This was not cognitive dissonance. No, along with Andrew Notsobright Bart, it was a gathering of cognitive dissidents — as in they protest cognition. Here’s what Mooselini had to say, in part, via Politico:
“We didn’t elect you just to rearrange the deck chairs on a sinking Titanic,” Palin said during a rally in front of the Wisconsin statehouse in Madison. “What we need from you, GOP, is to fight.” Pointing to the national champion University of Wisconsin women’s hockey team, Palin said the GOP could learn from its resolve and “needs to learn how to fight like a girl.” [emphasis added]
Which is the perfect segué into this, the second installment. Because it’s all about what it actually means to “fight like a girl,” and not like a selfish, self-centered “Me-ist” John Galt wannabe. Or, like Mooselini, a sexually (and philosophically) twisted Ayn Rand heroine. (Or is that “heroin”?) Note in the Politico article, whose name is splashed across the podium and in the signage (and who paid for the buses and, undoubtedly the private jet for the Princess to travel from far Moosylvania) the Koch-controlled “Americans for Prosperity.”) Only a heartless cad would make a ridiculous pun about Mooselini being a “Koch-sucker” or a “Koch whore.” We will not go there. We leave that to the kerfluffers of the Snarking Blogosmear™ to puff themselves up in faux-outrage. Instead …
In our last thrilling installment, entitled, perhaps unsurprisingly, “The Ravening Beast That Threatens U.S. (part i.),” we talked about the fact that capitalism thrives under virtually any form of government you care to mention, except sharing. We failed to mention that capitalism can even exist WITHOUT government, although it becomes a government in and of itself: witness Chicago in the 1930s, or the “drug wars” that are destroying the governments of Mexico and half a dozen more Central and South American countries. Capitalism doesn’t NEED government. Just ask the Pirates of the Caribbean. (Although, ironically, the pirates were quite democratic in some matters.) And that led to …
- The Cash
We learned what GRAB is: our present system of Generalized Rational Acquisition and Barter. How a generation traded real money for magic money and ended up broke. And how a few men who’d bought and sold magic money ended with all the real cash. Which led us to … Continue reading
