Neanderpundit

All this time you think you’ve been reading a kids book, right?

The fact is, the kids, the series, is an allegory for conservatism/libertarianism. No matter what you may think of the series, here it is in a nutshell: Hogwarts teaches magic. The magic conservative kids are taught is reason. Hogwarts requires kids not to use magic outside the classroom. Conservative kids are taught to keep their talents to themself, so as to make it through the “normal” educational system without ridicule.

Order of the Phoenix drove the message home more than ever. Freedom and decency are good. “Ministry” interference is bad. Blindness to the truth is bad. Can it be any clearer?

Has a great toon up today

Now, I’d say most of my rteaders get this; however, just in case there is anyone who doesn’t realise the Clintons are absolutely the worst, most opportunistic evil bastards on the planet, here’s a cartoon illustration of same.

Side note: I love how Dennis Miller calls him AquaVelvajad.

MTS brings up an interesting point in comments in the post below.

Mao solved China’s drug problem, more or less. yeah, it wasn’t a kinder, gentler way he did it, either. He just rounded up all the junkies, and shot ’em.

Years ago in India, there was a Hindi sect that worshipped Kali, who went around murdering travellers at an alarming rate. While nominally connected with Hindus, they themselves traced their origin back to Islam (not surprisingly). They were called Thuggee, and their name is the origin today of the term ‘thug”. (Not merely mildly amusing is the liberal use of the term “rethuglican”)

Anyway, Brits, back in the day when Britain was populated by actual Men, solved the problem in a similar way: they killed ALL the thuggees.

Maybe that’s not the answer to the problem of Islam.

Or is it?