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Politics

Friday Fun Link: "Who is Nick Gillespie?"

Matt Welch | 8.5.2011 1:07 PM

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And today's "er, what?" award goes to…The Hill's Bernie Quigley, who writes one of the weirder blog posts you'll see, under the headline "Tea Party wins … Who is Nick Gillespie?" All publicity is good publicity of course, and certainly all good publicity is good publicity, but…well, here's the lede:

Until this week Nick Gillespie was an unheard-of editor and writer except to those formidable few who admired his perseverance and looked forward to his rumpled commentary on Judge Napolitano's Freedom Watch.

Like Richard Farina in the rising folk scene of the early '60s, aficionados knew him to be the original item and deeply admired him. But no one else did. This weekend the most mainstream of conservatives, George Will at The Washington Post, favorably reviewed his book, The Declaration of Independents: How Libertarian Politics Can Fix What's Wrong With America. Today he is cited in The Wall Street Journal's "Notable & Quotable." Nick Gillespie has arrived. And so has the Tea Party.

Links added.

As one of the world's bigger Bob Dylan aficionados, of course, it was the Richard Fariña analogy that particularly stung the previously unheard-of editor. (On Twitter, Gillespie likened it to "someone speed-bagging my scrotum.")

Check out Gillespie's voluminous Reason archive here, and his not-inconsiderable Wall Street Journal contributions & citations here.

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  1. P Brooks   14 years ago

    Nick Gillespie is Rick Santelli?

    1. Lloyd   14 years ago

      I knew Nick Gillespie, you're no Nick Gillespie.

      1. ?   14 years ago

        George Will at The Washington Post, favorably reviewed his book

        "His" book? I see that a lot. Is Welch the co-author or not? Is there a conspiracy to cheat him out of his fame (or infamy)? Is Welch in on it?

        1. Restoras   14 years ago

          Yeah, Gillespie's trying to cheat Welch out of his share of the royalties - all $37.

          1. ?   14 years ago

            Well that's just mean.

            1. juris imprudent   14 years ago

              I have shirts worth more than that.

    2. the real OO   14 years ago

      the alt txt should read "look ma, I'm on top of the world!" in homage to cagney

      1. Pip   14 years ago

        It's "Made it ma, top of the world."

        Dumbass.

  2. Restoras   14 years ago

    Nick Gillespie drank teh TEA?

  3. sarcasmic   14 years ago

    Who is that guy in the picture who is not wearing The Jacket??

    1. Joshua Corning   14 years ago

      Wasn't the East in some sort of heat wave?

      Is one of Nick's super powers that he doesn't sweat?

      1. sarcasmic   14 years ago

        I googled the name of the business in the picture of the man who is not wearing The Jacket? and it appears to be located in San Francisco.

        1. sevo   14 years ago

          It's on the bay waterfront.

      2. Bar Taker   14 years ago

        Heat wave? what a bunch of pussies.

        1. Sparky   14 years ago

          It's not the heat, it's the stupidity... er humidity.

          You see Phoenix, AZ at 110 degrees with 15% humidity then look at Springfield, MA at 99 degrees with 67% humidity. Sometimes summer really sucks around here.

          1. Bar Taker   14 years ago

            That's nice but here in Houston we get the high temperatures and the humidity. Plus its not sometimes.

            1. Sparky   14 years ago

              Come back and cry when you get 12 feet of snow in the winter.

              1. NHC   14 years ago

                Perhaps you'd prefer 20' of water.

              2. Butts Wagner   14 years ago

                12 feet of snow in the winter

                12 feet? Is this cumulative?

    2. -   14 years ago

      Who is that guy in the picture who is not wearing The Jacket??

      He's the same guy who thinks people who obsess over his wardrobe are assholes and should get a friggin' life.

  4. Tman   14 years ago

    Pfft. Now the Jacket is simply going to get too big for these simple libertarian mags and the occasional rumpled commentary on Judge Napolitano's Freedom Watch.

    Before you know it he'll be partying it up with the big wigs in Maui and he'll forget about us little people who knew him way back when. Strippers, cocaine parties, throwing TV sets out the window followed by the inevitable Betty Ford rehab.

    Nick, we hardly knew ye.

    1. silent v   14 years ago

      I can't condone throwing TV sets out the window, but I though strippers and cocaine parties were part of the Reason culture.

      1. dunphy   14 years ago

        come for the libertarian discussion. stay for the strippers and cocaine!

        1. BakedPenguin   14 years ago

          This is why we fail. We have our priorities backward.

      2. The Streets   14 years ago

        Man, I'm not some crank vandal swinging the TV about at random

  5. Ken Shultz   14 years ago

    "...aficionados knew him to be the original item and deeply admired him. But no one else did."

    It's really a stab at the Hit & Run commentariat, isn't it?

    We're the aficionados. I guess he's callin' us fanboys? Or are we the "no one"?

    There's gotta be some kind of cognitive bias where people think no one else knew about something--until they discovered it themselves.

    1. sarcasmic   14 years ago

      Something doesn't exist until the cool kids are talking about it.

      Obviously we're not the cool kids.

    2. Nick Gillespie Fanboy   14 years ago

      I thought Nick Gillespie arrived after he tore Bill Maher a new asshole.

      1. Joshua Corning   14 years ago

        I thought Nick arrived years ago when i first saw him hocking his new book Choice on C-span

    3. EDG reppin' LBC   14 years ago

      Quigley is a hack. What the hell does "a formidable few" mean, anyway? Now this Gillespie kid... this kid has got what it takes. This kid is going to be somebody. Someday, this kid will write a book!

      1. ClubMedSux   14 years ago

        I was hoping to put "described as 'formidable' in The Hill" on my resume, but I don't know if anybody outside of D.C. has heard of The Hill.

    4. Douglas Fletcher   14 years ago

      In the 60s that something was called sex, I think.

  6. Pudgeboy   14 years ago

    "...someone speedbagging my scrotum." Awesome.

    1. Jaybird   14 years ago

      "Speed bag them before they speed bag you."

      1. Yakov Smirnoff   14 years ago

        In Russia, scrotum speed-bags... Wait. No. I just can't do it anymore. I'm a complicated person and I refuse to pigeon-hole myself into the little internet meme to which I've become identified. I'm SO much more than one hackneyed Cold War joke. I can teach today's generation about the realities of life under communism. You can't imagine what it was like in Odessa in the '70s. And I'm more than just comedy, you know. Have you ever seen my 9/11 mural? That's right. Yakov can paint. Oh, don't look so surprised. Anyway, if you'll excuse me, I have to prepare for the upcoming fall semester at Missouri State University, where I'm a PROFESSOR. Yes, you read correctly. I'm a smart guy, and the only way for me to earn respect is to start respecting MYSELF. So that's it. No more "In Russia..." jokes. Got it? Thank you.

        1. Ska   14 years ago

          Alright there, get a grip Peggy.

  7. CaptainSmartass   14 years ago

    Nick Gillespie has arrived. And so has the Tea Party.

    Wait, the Tea Party is entirely made up of libertarians? Since when?

    1. MNG   14 years ago

      This is a simple fact.

      1. Kant feel Pietzsche   14 years ago

        This is a "simple" assertion. It's no longer Thursday, right?

        1. Trespassers W   14 years ago

          Doesn't count, because MNG is kidding, not trolling.

    2. NAL   14 years ago

      Wow, if that's the case then there are a whole lot more libertarians than I thought there were.

    3. Douglas Fletcher   14 years ago

      The writer is clueless.

  8. David E. Gallaher/Ruthless   14 years ago

    We can hope it's true that Nick is becoming more famous, but I suspect the "man on the street" would be unable to identify George Will.
    Hoi Polloi will always be as unwashed and ignorant as they always have been.

  9. Joshua Corning   14 years ago

    Nick Gillespie has arrived. And so has the Tea Party.

    What is this tea Party that you speak of?

    Before this week I had never heard of it.

  10. Warty   14 years ago

    Nick Gillespie has arrived. And so has the Tea Party.

    So he's saying that Nick is racist?

    1. H man   14 years ago

      Nick Gillespie wrote Ron Paul's newsletters. True Story.

    2. the real OO   14 years ago

      no, he's saying nick's old n fat

  11. SIV   14 years ago

    All publicity is good publicity of course

    Yes and we can't remind the naysayers enough that the 800lb General Aldo of libertarian publicity right now is the hot chick intern lovely and talented Michelle Fields.

    1. Joe M   14 years ago

      Thank you! You must always preface mention of the lovely Michelle Fields with the word lovely.

  12. Joshua Corning   14 years ago

    Matt is the point in time that you admit that you wrote the whole book at Nick is actually a monster of your own creation?

    1. Welch's Juice   14 years ago

      Yes. Nick Gillespie is the jacket. The man you see in the picture is just a vehicle for it.

    2. Sparky   14 years ago

      The first rule of reason.com is you don't talk about reason.com.

    3. Brett L   14 years ago

      I think you accidentally the whole thing. Or I did.

      1. Ska   14 years ago

        Apparently Matt Welch is some specific moment and Nick Gillespie is a location.

        1. Sparky   14 years ago

          Or maybe Nick sat on one side of the room while Matt wrote the book at him.

          1. Joshua corning   14 years ago

            eye h8 u all

  13. PapayaSF   14 years ago

    Being compared to someone who died two days after his book was published also seems a bit awkward.

    1. SugarFree   14 years ago

      Awkward or thinly-disguised wishful thinking?

  14. The Gobbler   14 years ago

    "Who is Nick Gillespie?"

    A chanker on the asshole of America.

    True Story.

  15. Joshua Corning   14 years ago

    Wait this is the Friday funny???

    Racist!!!

    ...and not funny.

  16. PS   14 years ago

    Is George Will a mainstream conservative? He's more of a small government conservative, since when has that been mainstream?

    1. SIV   14 years ago

      Hint: Not all Republicans are "conservative". See David Brooks, Bill Kristol, George W Bush and John McCain for examples.

      1. Restoras   14 years ago

        Or, flip the coin over from standard Democatic Liberalism.

      2. PS   14 years ago

        These people are all referred to in the mainstream media as conservatives.

        Hint: conservative and republican are generally interchangeable. Conservative being someone who wants to keep society the same as opposed to progressing. I'm not aware the label has anything to do with fiscal policy, per se.

        1. SIV   14 years ago

          as opposed to progressing

          B-

          1. Joshua Corning   14 years ago

            SIV change for the sake of change is progress.

            I sentence you to 4 more years of public school indoctrination.

            Speaking of which why doesn't the conservative/progressive scale not allow for view of history that does not view change as hostile or beneficial...but simply changes in taste and attitudes?

            Oh wait never mind....I forgot Marxist critical theory...one cannot view history outside the lens of Marxism and still be taken 'seriously".

          2. PS   14 years ago

            Yes, something like that. Oh wait, you seem to think I'm endorsing progressives as opposed to discussing the idiocy of these labels.

        2. Brett L   14 years ago

          This is why I consider myself a reactionary, not a conservative.

          1. Doktor Kapitalism   14 years ago

            Communists are usually more likely to react than plan long term than those labeled reactionary.

    2. ClubMedSux   14 years ago

      If George Will were typical of conservatives and Glenn Greenwald typical of liberals I would be a lot more comfortable with the two-party system.

    3. Douglas Fletcher   14 years ago

      I think George might like to think of himself as 'the annointer' to the average thinking man.

  17. Bob   14 years ago

    Tea Party Grammar: The Richard Farina analogy is a Dylan aficionado?

  18. Warty   14 years ago

    From the comments to George Will's piece, we learn that freedom=slavery:

    DELewes
    Mr. Will's piece is a call for surrender to forces our forefathers fought to overcome. Wittingly or not, he advocates return to Golden Rule: he who has the gold makes the rules, and abandonment of Liberal Democracy: majority rule so long as rules don't unduly infringe on minority rights. Golden Rule's latest permutation, Limited Government, restricts government to primarily protecting rights of property and owners. Liberal Democracy encompasses everyone's rights, including the big 3. Francis Fukuyama's 'The Origins of Political Order' provides a thorough analysis, unburdened by ideology, of how Golden Rule lurks in the shadows of Limited Government, destroying authority, accountability and rule of law, the hallmarks of Liberal Democracy.

    The Declaration eloquently states our founders' intent to replace governance by Golden Rule, call it Monarchy, Plutocracy, Communism, or Capitalism. They understood predation by other, more powerful individuals inherent in Golden Rule is the primary threat to God given, individual rights, and instituted Liberal Democracy, governance by majority consent, to guard against it. Will sees government as the primary threat.

    Under Golden Rule, property rights become paramount; the rest, derivative: growing out of ownership. Secularist Golden Rule adherents say it's the natural order of things, reward for success accumulating wealth. A kind of Roman Republic basis of governance: Caesar earned the right to rule by conquest, successful economic warriors earn the right to make decisions for the rest of us today.

    Non-secularists, a quasi-Christian cult of the Elect, see divine law. It's God's plan that some have power. To limit that power through regulation, or empower non-Elect through unions, is heresy. Read Jeff Sharlett's 'The Family' or 'C Street' for details. Yet, Golden Rule contradicts a basic Christian idea at Liberal Democracy's heart: in God's eyes, all are equal, wealthy or not

    The cart-before-horse claim that evil, expansionist government is the primary threat is appealing, but it's Golden Rule's evils, not some cancerous attribute that creates demand for government agencies, programs and action. Southern ruling elites deny the evils of slavery, Jim Crow, and segregation, thus the Civil War, 13th & 14th Amendments and Civil Rights legislation. Sweatshops, factory fires kill hundreds in Massachusetts, thus labor, minimum wage laws. Flammable rivers in Ohio lead to environmental regulations. Left unchecked by Liberal Democratic governance, propertied elites will reinforce their secular, Golden Rule rights at the expense of the non-elite's God given rights every time.

    I'm not out to get the wealthy. Private property, wealth, private sector, market economics are essential to Liberal Democracy. I just don't want them running the world. They tend to muck things up. Liberal Democracy with authority to reign in dangers of Golden Rule inherent in market economics remains the best protection for individual rights.
    7/31/2011 9:34:48 PM EDT

    1. KPres   14 years ago

      Southern ruling elites deny the evils of slavery, Jim Crow, and segregation, thus the Civil War, 13th & 14th Amendments and Civil Rights legislation. Sweatshops, factory fires kill hundreds in Massachusetts, thus labor, minimum wage laws. Flammable rivers in Ohio lead to environmental regulations. Left unchecked by Liberal Democratic governance, propertied elites will reinforce their secular, Golden Rule rights at the expense of the non-elite's God given rights every time.

      Notice that every evil he mentions, except one, represents a violation of somebody's property rights? And that one is only an "evil" once taken out of historical context.

      1. Warty   14 years ago

        GODLEN RULE

    2. Kant feel Pietzsche   14 years ago

      Teh stoopid is strong with this one.

      I'm not out to get the wealthy. Private property, wealth, private sector, market economics are essential to Liberal Democracy. I just don't want them running the world.

      No, really, we don't want to KILL the host...

      1. fish   14 years ago

        I'm not out to get the wealthy.....I just want their wealth.

    3. Trespassers W   14 years ago

      How does Golden Rule derive from Time Cube?

      1. Bingo   14 years ago

        Time Cube has cool diagrams.

      2. Joe M   14 years ago

        FOUR SIDES FACING SUNRISE SUNSET NOON MIDNIGHT IDIOT UNIVERSITIES SCIENTISTS WRONG LYING TRUTH IS FOUR 24 HOUR DAYS SIMULTANEOUSLY FOR 96 HOURS IN A DAY THE SUN IS A GOLDEN ORB WHICH RULES THE DAY. THUS GOLDEN RULE.

    4. Zeb   14 years ago

      Wait, what does this guy think the Golden Rule is?

      1. mattcid   14 years ago

        "He who has the gold makes the rules". It sounds like he doesn't like Corporatism but he is too idealistic about big government to see that it is the problem.

    5. Anonymous Coward   14 years ago

      Sweatshops, factory fires kill hundreds in Massachusetts, thus labor, minimum wage laws.

      Bzzzt! Wrong. Minimum wage laws were instituted to price "industrial residuum" (women, children, blacks, Jews, Chinese, and Italians) out of the labor market, who typically agreed to work for less than white, Anglo-Saxon laborers.

  19. Tonio   14 years ago

    Uh, the neterati have known Gillespie since the halcyon days of Suck dot com.

  20. KPres   14 years ago

    Washington Insiders and the MSM are gearing up for a new drive to bash the Tea Party, and then associate anybody who challenges them with it. That's not new but this one will be the strongest, most organized effort to date.

    It's going to backfire, of course, because they don't realize yet how much everybody hates them. I don't think I know anybody, Republican or Democrat, who gives a rats ass about what the establishment is saying anymore.

  21. Darth Vader   14 years ago

    The force is strong in this one.

  22. dbcooper   14 years ago

    This week's friday metal link goes out to All Black props Owen and Ben Franks, who just happen to be bogan metal heads.

    1. dbcooper   14 years ago

      And the link:

      http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IwTtJMdSvMg

    2. Warty   14 years ago

      That's some nice cauliflower ear right there.

      And that's some nice metal right here.

    3. Dagny T.   14 years ago

      My aunt grew up in NZ and is an All Blacks fan, for which I am grateful because I otherwise might not know about the haka. Coolest thing ever. Even the less hot guys on the team must get laid like rockstars.

      1. Warty   14 years ago

        Well, that's kind of the whole point of athletics.

        ...Or of having a job, or anything that requires leaving the house, really.

      2. dbcooper   14 years ago

        Here's a precisely executed All Blacks' try for you:

        http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WT7IqUbG89g

        1. Warty   14 years ago

          All blacks

          Except for the bassist, but who cares about bassists?

          1. dbcooper   14 years ago

            "Make like a bass and be inaudible." 😉

            Sepultura + All Black's jersey:

            http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0TanJ9jf-p4

            1. Warty   14 years ago

              Helio's smile is almost as terrifying as his glare.

            2. Dagny T.   14 years ago

              "Make like a bass and be inaudible."

              Ha. I realized long ago that the common feature of music I don't like in any genre is inadequate/boring/nonexistent bass line. Bass is everything.

              1. SugarFree   14 years ago

                Dags, are you Lady Tigra or Bunny D?

                1. Dagny T.   14 years ago

                  Holy crap. The mental image of late 80's Sug bustin' a move to this song made my brain go boom.

                  1. SugarFree   14 years ago

                    Too bad I was already part of the black t-shirt brigade... I missed out on all the neon OP clothes...

              2. Warty   14 years ago

                Bass is everything.

                Even more so if you can add Ron Paul to the bass.

                1. Marshall Gill   14 years ago

                  WFT, Warty?! She mentions bass and you don't throw out some Steve Harris?

                  I guess I will just have to do it for you.

                  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rwY3Ftfdy6M

                  1. Warty   14 years ago

                    I was gonna, honest. But it's getting to be RON PAUL season, and I need to start RON PAULing.

                    Also, Powerslave is Steve Harris' best work.

                    1. Marshall Gill   14 years ago

                      Best original work perhaps, but this is fucking awesome!

                      http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qjfkh7s7rGk

                      Oh, my six year old daughter started dancing when I cranked up Powerslave. Should I be worried?

              3. Restoras   14 years ago

                This makes finding good music to listen to challenging.

              4. db   14 years ago

                "Local Bassist Fellated"

                Seriously, no link because The Onion doesn't even remember that it ran this article once upon a time when it was funny.

          2. Geddy Lee   14 years ago

            Yo! Over here!

  23. P Brooks   14 years ago

    Francis Fukuyama's 'The Origins of Political Order' provides a thorough analysis, unburdened by ideology

    Riiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiight.

  24. Matt Damon   14 years ago

    I'm conflicted about the publicity (which has been needed) vs. staying on the fringes which I feel adds credibility. This last week has seen an influx of insane commentary on Reason that is right in line with the normal insane ignorant attention of the MSM. Catch-22. If you want to spread the message (less this party that party but logical, reasoned debate on politics and economics) you'd like to go beyond preaching to the choir, but going beyond the choir almost instantly kills the true message... KILL ME.

    1. Joshua Corning   14 years ago

      Catch-22

      Paternalistic pandering!!!

      1. Matt Damon   14 years ago

        PATERNALISTIC INTRINSIC PATERNALISTIC INTRINSIC PATERNALISTIC INTRINSIC PATERNALISTIC INTRINSIC PATERNALISTIC INTRINSIC PATERNALISTIC INTRINSIC

        -MMAAAATT DAYMUHHHNN

    2. Matt Damon   14 years ago

      MATT DAMON!

      1. Sarah Silverman   14 years ago

        Here's my tits.

        Stop talking.

    3. SugarFree   14 years ago

      I like to think of it as an oppurtunity to call a whole new crop of inane commenters something like "pus-sailing skintags" or "choadswaddling felchgarglers."

      You got to accentu-ate the positive.

      1. Tonio   14 years ago

        Oh, noob commenter boot camp! (dusts off smokey the bear hat and waxes up flattop)

      2. db   14 years ago

        "blumpkin-giving smegma connoisseurs?

  25. GILMORE   14 years ago

    Until this week Nick Gillespie was an unheard-of editor and writer ...

    ...by Bernie Quigley, blogger of wide public acclaim?

    I read that post and I'm not even sure WTF his point is. He seems very confused.

    1. AlmightyJB   14 years ago

      Winner. Who the fuck is Bernie Quigley? What a tool.

      1. Mike M.   14 years ago

        Thirded. And if I had to bet, I'd bet Reason gets a lot more hits and print subscribers than The Hill.

      2. Jason   14 years ago

        Yeah, what he said.

        Who the hell is Bernie Quigley?

        1. Anomalous   14 years ago

          Exactly! Who's better known, The Jacket or the jackoff?

        2. BakedPenguin   14 years ago

          Is he related to Linnea Quigley?

          Wait. Never mind. I still don't care.

        3. juris imprudent   14 years ago

          He was the brother of the character played by Tom Selleck; he didn't go to Australia.

  26. Clich? Bandit   14 years ago

    Y know I like the cut of your jib Mr. Gillespie, Perhaps you have a newsletter to which I can subscribe?...ohh, wiat...CANCEL MY SUBSCRIPTION!

  27. Clich? Bandit   14 years ago

    If we are going mainstream i want out.

    1. Black Eyed Peas   14 years ago

      Hell yeah! We gonna keep it real in the underground homies!

      1. Doktor Kapitalism   14 years ago

        Hipsters...

  28. Warty   14 years ago

    Come for the story about North Korea, stay for the stupefying comments

    CountMelancholy 8 hours ago in reply to maltboy59
    They are starving because your government is imposing crippling sanctions on the country. If you want to blame anyone, blame yourself for allowing your government to do this to a people.

    1. Ska   14 years ago

      If there was ever a time to bust out the Billy Madison reply...

    2. H man   14 years ago

      The North Korean government is simply not spending or regulating enough.

    3. Anonymous Coward   14 years ago

      It has absolutely nothing to do with North Korea's "S?n'gun" policy in which the military gets first crack at any and all foodstuffs in North Korea.

      1. capitol l   14 years ago

        Coupled with the *hypocritically self-reliant Juche philosophy there are a lot of starving NKoreans.

        *hypocritical for a nation whose entire existence is dependent upon outside powers; from conception to present

    4. capitol l   14 years ago

      One of the comments that I read stated that if the US pulled its troops out of SKorea the north could reduce its army and open its society.

      That people can believe such hogwash inspires in me a murderous cynicism.

      1. NoVAHockey   14 years ago

        I can't believe someone actually believes that. Sure, they'll say it as some sort of reflex. but they have to know it's garbage, right?

        1. AlmightyJB   14 years ago

          They don't "know" anything. That's why they "believe" it.

      2. T   14 years ago

        Aaaand that's why you're a terrorist, cap l. 'Murderous', you said so yourself. DHS will be along shortly. Stop resisting.

        1. capitol l   14 years ago

          Yeah, but my murderous cynicism coupled with my cantankerous apathy amount to little more than me hurling scatalogical insults at anonypussy, the shiteater.

    5. China   14 years ago

      You so stupid, Count.

    6. Tonio   14 years ago

      Oh, c'mon guys. Anything said or published in support for NorK is ultimately regime propaganda. Sure, it's funny (sortof) but not to be taken seriously.

    7. Resto Druid FTW   14 years ago

      Wow, just wow. The stoopid is approaching meltdown in that one (CountMelancholy).

  29. Matt Damon   14 years ago

    PATERNALISTIC INTRINSIC PATERNALISTIC INTRINSIC PATERNALISTIC INTRINSIC

    -MAATT DAYYMUHNN

  30. Matt Damon   14 years ago

    (Websters Dictionary)

    -MAATT DAYYMUUHHNN

  31. Matt Damon   14 years ago

    (Webster's Dictionary)

    -Maatt Dayymmuunn

  32. Gibby   14 years ago

    Weighing his options, Nick Gillespie
    declined a Chuck Norris/Jack Bauer hybrid stem cell. He didn't want to dilute his genetic material.

  33. halmonkey   14 years ago

    Contact The Hill: jennifery@thehill.com

    1. dbcooper   14 years ago

      Do they want in on the metal action?

  34. Stevo Darkly, Libert'n Hipster   14 years ago

    Hey, I was reading Gillespie way back when he was still undergound -- before he sold out to the Big Media suits and started appearing all over the TV like Billy Mays. But you wouldn't have heard anything about him during that period, it was really obscure.

  35. Brandybuck   14 years ago

    I am so straight nuns use me to calibrate their rulers. Hence the necessity to look up "speed-bagging".

  36. BakedPenguin   14 years ago

    This place was better when Virginia Postrel was the unknown.

  37. GregA   14 years ago

    So, now, the real question is, "Who is Matt Walsh?" LOL

    1. GregA   14 years ago

      WELCH! See, even I don't know.

  38. G   14 years ago

    I don't think George Will is a mainstream conservative, I think he leans much farther libertarian than people realize. I was also surprised to see that Pat Buchanan is so anti-war, I assumed he was more neocon.

    1. BakedPenguin   14 years ago

      Will does seem far more amenable to many libertarian arguments than most conservatives.

      Still, I don't think he's ready to drink the Kool-Aid just yet.

    2. SIV   14 years ago

      Pat Buchanan=Paleocon

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