Observations 'pon a Wednesday Morn.

We return today after a short re-organization hiatus with a few observations:

1.) In Austria, A Chimp is Not a Person. Seems the Austrian judicial system had to get involved to help these folks tell the difference between A Human and Not A Human. Seriously...was a court ruling really necessary to declare that a chimpanzee is not a person? I didn't think it could get any more ridiculous than a Constitutional amendment to define marriage.

2.) If you're going to drive like a jerk and assume that everyone else should kowtow to your vehicular whims on the road, don't display a red, white, and blue bumper sticker that reads, "United We Stand," because you're obviously not driving like you want to be part of the group. At least if you had one of those delightful cartoons of Calvin urinating on something, it would more closely define your character to the rest of us.

3.) Liberals, stop backing Ron Paul! He's not a liberal! Libertarianism is, at bottom, a philosophy that presupposes that all forms of liberty are mutually inclusive, and that all members of a society are rational enough to recognize this. If such were the case, there would be no need of special places to keep those individuals who chose not to respect or are incapable of respecting other people's liberties (we call these places prisons.) Since one cannot expect all members of a society to respect the liberties of every other member of the society, and because many liberties are mutually exclusive (meaning that that for one to enjoy something, someone else must suffer), libertarianism is merely a nice word for anarchism. The "do unto others as you would have them do unto you" mentality espoused by most libertarians would in reality become "do unto others before they do unto you."
Thus, Liberals, either find a Democratic candidate you can live with or stay home on election day. If you're so cynical that you'd consider voting for Ron Paul as the "lesser of all evils," then just let those of us who care about the electoral process carry the country.

4.) And while we're on the subject of libertarianism, if you're going to accept welfare dollars from the government, you can't claim to be a libertarian. It's against the rules.

Cheers,

Lockhart