Libertarians, My Libertarians!
Cruel to be kind means that I love you . Because, while I think you are mistaken, your hearts are in the right place -- yes, even you, Silas -- unlike some people . This Breitbart fellow (discussed in the link above), by all appearances, deliberately doctored a video of Shirley Sherrod to make her remarks appear virulently racist, when they had, in fact, the opposite import. I heard that at a recent Austrian conference, some folks were talking about "Callahan's conservative turn." While that description is not entirely inaccurate, I must say that a lot of these people who today call themselves conservative give me the heebie-jeebies.
I wouldn't blame that on socialism. The Village Voice is a template for a lot of "alternative" newspapers across the country and, in fact, owns quite a few of them. All have similar "best of" competitions involving a mix of readers' polls and reviewer opinions. Restaurants thus "awarded" often use the citations in the advertisements they buy. So a proper interpretation would be, "Make sure there are enough categories so all your advertisers can win!" Which is just good business, really.
ReplyDeleteAh, you've run rings round me logically!
ReplyDeleteBy the way, PUCK is at the publishers.