More From The Peanut Section

Well, we've gotten Anonymous' attention again. The infamous B.Shuai (whom you'll recall as a notorious scribbler from the blue end of the decidedly non-mainstream media organ The Non-Union News has taken us to task for, well I'm still sorting through the meandering bloviations, but it seems to have something to do with politics.

The mind behind the NUN says:

"The minds of "conservatives" are truly novel, even precious things. Addicted to an extreme regime of "reductio ad absurdam", convinced that the particular historical dispensation that prevails this year, or this decade (or even this century) is proof enough of America's trans-historical ascendency and triumph, they hold forth on all manner of topics of which they know little and understand less."

First, I didn't say anything at all about America, but about a shared heritage that, where ever it is tended, produces a greater degree of dignity, freedom and prosperity than anything else mankind has devised. Further, where ever the tenets of this heritage are ignored or abandoned, we see poverty, humilitaion and enslavement. The examples are legion and the counter examples are rarer than a Republican in San Francisco. Even the Islamofascists are able to lash out only to the extent that they adopt, hijack, exploit or pervert western technology (cell phones, airplanes, plastic explosives, credit cards) or Western society (open society, political correctness, freedom of travel, free speech). The failures of the Western societies that adopted Marxism and other structuralisms show as clearly as the space between Shuai's ears that when a state abandons democracy, the rule of law, free markets and the scientific method, then it embarks on quick downhill run to stagnation and irrelevance. The United States has no historical dispensation and is no more exception to that principle than is Burma or Egypt. I never said otherwise, nor would any true conservative.

Next, the good editor says:

"Could it be that distance makes the mind grow sharper? That no longer having to live with the consequences of the Israelification and militarization of not only American foreign policy but also American political culture and even common sense, these worthies imagine that being so distant they may urge the moral troglodytes at the helm of this tragically misdirected republic forward to auto-toxemic oblivion with their usual antipodal abandon, remaining safe from any consequence?"

I think he means it's easy for me to talk, living as I do here in Godzone. That's particularly rich coming from someone who works in academia and lives in the most left-leaning city of the most left-leaning state in the union. I'll wager a substantial bar-tab that Brother Shuai regularly goes weeks without encountering anyone who disagrees with his political views.

Finally, OK. let's assume for the sake of argument that I'm wrong. Now what, Jack?