About 200 hours a month reading. A lot of it is internet but quite a bit is dead-tree reading. I do this not because I love it, though I do, but to keep my bullshit detector finely tuned.

I have had a thousand conversations where the conversee said things like “I don’t believe that” or “I don’t buy that” or “I don’t feel like that’s right”.

Belief, my minions, is reserved for the Creator. There is no room in politics for belief, only reason. Reason and facts will let you know that the financial mess we’re in was predominantly orchestrated by Jimmeh Carter, aided and abetted by Janet Reno, involved a Citibank lawsuit including The One himself, and the nails were driven in the coffin by Franklin Raines, barney Frank, and Nancy pelosi and Jamie Gorelick were complicit as well. Sure, there were other players, but those were the primary ones. And the Big Three would never have begun to have financial difficulties if the prices of gas hadn’t gone through the roof, and that wouldn’t have happened had offshore drilling and drilling in ANWAR been allowed early on.

Yes, there are other factors, but those are the root causes. If you can read, if you are capable of reason, you can easily see that there is no portion of liberalism that does not cause problems for it’s adherents. AND everyone else. The idea that liberal policies can “fix” people’s lives, or world problems, or environmental issues (when they exist) is ludicrous. That is “belief” and it is a classically unfounded belief. And the people that “believe” in these policies instead of troubling themselves to discover the facts, should not vote. They got us where we are. Where we are is bad.

This doesn’t mean they’re bad people; though, it is a great litmus test. If they do understand the illogic of their actions and do what they do for reasons of political gain, they are evil. Everyone else is just incapable of reason.

Like one Marc Rubin having his ass handed to him at the Smallest Minority.