Are You Ready to Ask Nick Gillespie and Matt Welch ANYTHING? Go to Reddit at 12 noon ET!

UPDATE: Here's the link to the AMA.
As part of our special Webathon programming, Matt Welch and I—editors of Reason mag and Reason's Internet platforms—are doing an "Ask Me Anything" forum at good old Reddit, "the front page of the Internet." (Yes, that's us kicking off today's AMAs, which include sessions with actors Omar Epps and Devin Kelley, TV host Michael Moloney, and Prozac Nation author Elizabeth Wurtzel).
The fun starts at noon Eastern Time and will run the better part of two hours. Like the name implies, you can ask us…anything. (And just like you've heard a thousand times at church, you can ask god for anything, but sometimes the answer is no).
Where might the questioning lead? One indication came last night when the Twitterer Rex Harrison's Hat prematurely queried, "Ever wonder what it'd look like if you switched faces?" and supplied the terrifying image you see to the side. Yes, that's Matt on the right of the picture. And on the left. It's all very confusing.

Let's have some laughs and maybe even some more facial transplants, but let's also ask some tough questions about the Libertarian Moment that Matt and I believe is happening all around us; discussions of whether "free minds and free markets" are waxing or waning; whether the Eric Garner and other cases are a tipping point in how we view law enforcement; how the Republicans and Obama can make the most of the next two years; and more.
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Aaaaauuuugghh! My eyes!
I thought it was Mel Brooks on the left and some pudgy Korean pop-rap star on the right.
"Ohhp, Ohhp, Ohhpa Jacket Style!"
Nick's face with Matt's hair reminds me of something, I just don't know what.
A young Charles Nelson Reilly?
What is Tom Snyder doing with that Downs Syndrome man
That's just weird.
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I think I'd rather stick my balls in a bear trap than read reddit, but if anyone wants to ask them why Postrel hates us or get in a well placed, friendly jab about pot, Mexicans, and ass sex they're response might be interesting.
Postrel hates us because we're vulgar.
What a cunt...
Word
I've heard several explanations including vulgarity, and her being a raging cosmo who can't stand all the "yokeltarians" here.
How does she feel about redneckatarians?
Lumbertarians?
Yes?
I recall a comment thread on an article about her (fashion related) and there was going to be some sort of reason dc party or something. She had said something about reading the thread and hoping those people (meaning us) were not coming. I'm paraphrasing. I think it was last year maybe before that.
She may have been talking about a reason cruise, not a party? Don't quite remember for sure.
I think the article was a Reason interview with her about her book Glamour.
That sounds right. Did she call the commentators jerks? Something like that
Referenced in the thread here
http://reason.com/blog/2014/01.....ni#comment
Evidently she tweeted this.
BakedPenguin|11.15.13 @ 4:59PM|#
Something upset her. "I hope no @reason commenters go on the cruise, because I don't want to meet these jerks."
reply to this
It was because we were commenting on the thread but never actually watched her hour-long video with Nick.
She don't know us vewy well, do she?
Hilariously, it's on her wikipedia page.
On November 15, 2013, Postrel criticized commenters at libertarian Reason.com on her Twitter account: "I hope no Reason commenters go on the cruise, because I don't want to meet these jerks," leading the offending commenters to apologize.
I remember that, but I don't remember the apologies.
I don't either. Nick probably told her that:)
The comments section is linked to 'apologize'. Some people did apologize but it was just people who said things about her appearance for the Glamour thing.
Good times.
One of these days, I'll go on a Reason cruise, sit down in front of Postrel, look her straight in the eye, and then pour myself a shot of tequila.
A person apologized. And now wiki says so.
The only one who apologized unconditionally was Tonio.
I was counting Caleb too. Alright, which ones of you smartasses edited the wiki page?
I did and I'll edit war your ass if you put it back
Wow, you're just screaming for attention aren't you? Enjoy pal.
???
Are you stupid?
We should have all showed up and cat called her throughout the entire affair.
The comments section has an impressive amount of vulgarity compared to most libertarian discussion forums. We tend to be a less emotional, hyperrational bunch, so Reason comments are a little unusual. Maybe it's the Objectivist roots of the magazine.
I'm pretty sure editors have to sign a blood oath to hate everyone affiliated with dead people the Kochs once hated, so Postrel would be upset at the wide variety of paleos and anarchos running around hereabouts. She's a wonderful writer and thinker, but it's hard to forget that she was editor when a bunch of Reason hangers-on were slurring Misesians for their raaaacism. It's continued under NG, memorably his hit on Walter Block when he sided with a NYT hack over a fellow libertarian.
Such is the price of editorial power, I suppose.
I can't see how any libertarian would have a problem with Walter Block. I'm not an ancap, but I've always thought he makes a very intelligent and articulate case for liberty. He also comes across as one of the nicest guys you'd ever meet.
I can't see how any libertarian would have a problem with Walter Block.
I am not a libertarian at all, and I like Walter Block and his writing. I may not agree with him, but he is as you say "very intelligent and articulate" in his defense of liberty.
Well Block's (and most Rothbardians*) view on abortion is "not even wrong". So there's that.
*The Rothbard school is still the closest to my own views, but Rothbard and Block just got it wrong with Evictionism by electing to begin their argument in media res, as it were.
If you come back to this thread or catch me on another one, maybe you could fill me in on your objections to evictionism.
Evictionism strikes me as the obvious solution to a notoriously sticky debate about the nature of human life (biological, anyway) and our positive obligations to others.
The only thing this comment is missing is COSMOTORIANS!!!!
COSMOTORIANS!!!! are allies.
Beating the shit out of your own people to signal how enlightened you are marks you as a sellout.
Fortunately as a post-Postrel commenter, I'm unencumbered with fucks to give about what she thinks of me/us
Other than a name bandied about here, I'm still not sure who she is/was
The Future and Its Enemies is one of the finest post-Hayekian works you'll ever find. Virginia's one of our finest minds around, but she's sort of in a grey area because she's not Austrian (in spite of being so Hayekian), nor is she a glibertarian.
She's also fancy & sophisticated n stuff and doesn't spend all her time talking about encirclement or Kelo, so she's sort of an odd duck in the movement.
This should go over about as well as a Bill Cosby appearance at a rape crisis center.
lol... there are more libertarians on reddit than you might assume, though the percentage of members belonging to the ROADZRANDEVIL Shrill progressive Choir is quite high.
That pic is just too awesome.
But even the libertarians there tend to be awful. /r/libertarian tends to be a cesspool.
"whether the Eric Garner and other cases are a tipping point in how we view law enforcement"
I reached that point about 35 years ago althought the militarization aspect of it has come more in to play in the last 20 or so at least in my memory.
I say 35 because that's when I was 16 and old enough to be interacting with them. It was much earlier when I first saw archived footage of Bull Conner's thugs sicking dogs on protesters and hitting them with water hoses. I hated those cops when I saw that but was under the impression (I was a child) that this was isolated to a few southern cities.
If I had a question for the Jacket Itself, do I address it to the Jacket or the Nick (aka the Mouth of the Jacket)?
There is no difference between them. The jacket controls the body.
The Jacket and The Nick are just two manifestations of the same thing. Like the holy trinity, only with no third, and no salvation angle.
Or like master blaster.
Of COURSE there's a third and salvation. YOU are the third. ONLY YOU CAN SAVE YOURSELF.
"The Last American Hero|12.5.14 @ 10:06AM|#
If I had a question for the Jacket Itself..."
WHO DARES QUESTION THE TIMELESS BEING FROM PSR B1620-26 b?
You mean Bangladesh?
Actually, that's a stop on the New Jersey turnpike.
Here is a question...If we get Jeb Booooosh vs. Shrillary Clinton does Gary johnson have a chance?
Also, on a scale of 1-10 what is your favorite color of the alphabet?
He'll probably get 7% of the vote this time instead of 1%. He of course will not be allowed in the debates.
Splunge?
OT: Kruggie just can't let it go. Don't read the comments unless you are ready to accept that same amount of brain cell loss you would get from a 3 day binge drinking spree.
Obamacare is great
Here is the average mindset of a NYT poster:
Patty Ann B Midwest 1 hour ago
I thank God that the Affordable Care Act has allowed my artist son to pursue his dream of doing a comic book. Without it I would have had to insist he not take the job at the daycare to sustain his artistic bent and get a "real" job, one that would provide him with health insurance. Now he can stay on my insurance until he can make it in his field. Obamacare is a boon to me and too bad Democrats are too fearful to toot their own horns. Young folks can stay on their parent's insurance in a time where good jobs are scarce and just be the talented people they are. Steve Jobs and Bill Gates should have been so lucky.
I detect sarc
Only, it's not, the person is serious.
I do too, but it's so hard to tell these days.
If her son had anything to do with Grant Morrison's The Multiversity: Pax Americana, then that's evidence alone for not only the repeal of the ACA, but the institution of the death penalty for that piece of shit. What the fuck were they thinking? It was like saying "Transformers is a beloved franchise, so I'll pay homage to that by making an epic GoBots comic!" What the hell, Morrison? All you've proven is that you're not Alan Moore. The only thing "Clockmen" did better was the whole "Holy shit! An autistic God-like superbeing would be fucking terrifying!" thing. It was a worse offense then Before Watchmen.
You can't do worse than Before Watchmen, it's not physically possible.
Morrison is a chaos magician, remember. He's not bound by the physical laws of our space-time.
I can't remember where but Warren Ellis once told some story where he randomly found Morrison writing naked in a room of pure white while speaking gibberish. You may be onto something. Or Ellis was on something, whatever.
By his own admission, Morrison believes in "chaos magick" and performs occult rituals.
So it's like Alan Moore's snake god but less self aware? Not surprised that 'comic book writers' and 'LSD related brain damage' seem to overlap.
I would ask if they have ever had mutual buttsex and if so, how many times.
If? Come on. The question to ask is who sucked the other's dick first.
What is the perfect libertarian meal and why?
Roast Orphan with a glass of Prog tears.
Hey, you can't just be roasting good orphans!
Well I never cooked any of your orphans. Stooopid mammal.
I was watching one of those How its Made shows the other day and they were making Top Hats. I was very distraught that they were not using orphan labor.
Well I'm not gonna eat em raw.
Something that my wife cooks and a 12 pack of beer.
Anything with bacon. Because its fucking bacon
Which is in more need of reform: The tax code or regulatory environment?
Tax code
If Hitler was alive today, would he be known as a libertarian?
If he's exterminating Jews then I'm sure he'd be pretty popular with the progs. So, no.
He was actually pretty popular with the progs before the war because of his supposed success with central planning the economy.
He maintained a high level of support by the American left until he invaded the Soviet Union.
And what would all of the time travel plots on tv shows be about?
If the internet is not too important not to regulate, what is?
First posts on links.
Exactly!
Can vegetarians eat animal crackers?
Vegetarian: yes
Vegan: no
Muslim: not the pig crackers
Hindu: not the cow crackers
Me: only the bodies. I leave the heads as a warning to other crackers.
Libertarianism as a political philosophy has a lot going for it; internally consistent, most individual friendly, doesn't force people to go against their conscience, it's economically advantageous, and it affords the most freedom to the most people. So why is it that it cannot garner anything more than token support?
Treating people as individuals and expecting them to take responsibility for themselves is just too much for a lot of people. Especially the personal responsibility part.
3 reasons:
Most people are too stupid to understand it.
Freedom scares the crap out of most people.
A lot of people are more concerned with what other people are doing than what they themselves are allowed to do, or not.
Libertarians understand that government's only tool is violence, and that violence has limited uses. Most people either don't understand this, or don't care. They just know what they want, and want government to do it for them.
And what most of them want is one of two things:
Free shit paid for by other people.
To control what other people can or cannot do through force of government violence.
We always skip the "punishing your enemies" part, so we don't get a lot of traction with the mundanes.
Which is more impactful: Same-sex marriage or same-sex divorce?
Impactful isn't a word. Make that impactious.
Which has more impact? is the proper way to say it, you anarchist hick!
/the cosmotarians
What a weird way to question impactliness.
There's no such word. It's impactitoodleness.
Can neither of you read a dictionary? It's impactationability
It is a perfectly cromulent word.
Which is more impactful lucrative: Same-sex marriage or same-sex divorce?
/Family Law Attorney
Trick question! I won't do either!
/CHRISTFAG Family Law Attorney
Sure about that?
/Teh Gayz Lobby
That's a nice license to practice law there. Be a shame if something happened to it.
Meh, what are we chopped liver? Why can't we have an ama with our esteemed editors at this very cite. We at least apreciahahahahahahahah, occasionally read your guys' work.
Seriously.
Can we have a "authors must respond to threads week" or something?
Some do. Bailey usually does...a little bit.
Lucy did quite a bit. That's why they booted her, they got jealous.
I wonder what Kennedy thinks of us?
Some do, few answer back. Mostly because we're assholes and they haven't yet taken that as a point of pride I think.
I assume Kennedy loves us, all of us, deeply. At least I tell myself that, a lot.
You'll be in your bunk?
I've seen Matt reply in the threads a couple of times, but don't think I've ever seen Nick post here, not saying he hasn't. But it's possible that the Jacket won't let him mingle with the likes of us.
I saw a "THIS" from Nick when someone slammed him w/ a Daily Beast crack.
Mostly because we're assholes
Yeah, but we're their assholes...
I am not! I am my own asshole.
Wait, that isn't worded right...
How do you... nevermind, I don't wanna know.
Jesse, Ron, Doherty, Rico Suave and ENB regularly respond, as does Matt occasionally. I don't recall Sullum, KMW or Root ever responding. Nick, on very rare occasions, graces us.
and DON'T TALK SHIT ABOUT LUCY.
Cavanaugh hung out in threads that werent his.
Should libertarians be banned from asking, "Can't we all just get along?"
Well, they should definitely be banned from asking 'What would Scooby Do'
If you could be any tree, could your wood be imported for guitar-making?
Is orange the most NAP color?
Should libertarians be supplied questions without offering compensation?
Is Armageddon the greatest libertarian movie of all times, or just the second greatest movie of all times?
No
"When do you know you have too many orphan slaves, and maybe its time to cull the herd with a little Hunger Games-style gladatorial combat for an increased gruel ration? And do you make it open to the public (for a fee! Ha... ha... he thought 'free'... lol, mercy) or 'invite-only' to other Oligarch-Industrialists?"
#AskTheMonocle
The internet and zip codes were invented by the government. What meaningful inventions have come from libertarianism?
Cash4Gold?
Lobster girl?
Why hasn't Reason addressed the newsletters?
What is the most libertarian sport and why?
WWF. It's all lies in the name of profitz!
Driving around in your giant koch bros provided SUV and running down homeless orphans.
Homeless midget tossing and shooting puppies and kitties out a cannon are a close 2nd and 3rd.
I could make a serious case for baseball. The ballanced contribution of the individual to the team and to oneself. The clear responsibilities of the defensive player. The rights of the batter/runner. Of course I can BS anything.
Good points, but the correct answer is golf.
Ninja Warrior. To win you must be a rugged individualist.
+1
Sarcasm
"We all know that the Kochs don't pay as much as we'd like... but is writing for Rolling Stone under the pen name of 'Jackie' really necessary?"
If rent for a water cooler is paid from pooled money from an entire office staff, who has the moral right to offer a cup to an outside visitor?
Good Question! =
'Outside visitors' - or as we like to call them, "Interns" - are usually promised water as a reward for their first 100 H&R posts... that is, if they last that long; far too often we find them on the sidewalk having decided that a 15-story fall was preferable to another commentary on "Rape Culture"....'
Do they stand with Hillary?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rfU3hI8ML30#t=91
One of the most tasteless things I have ever seen.
I love it. LOVE IT.
Holy Christ on a cracker is the fucking legit?
I'm afraid so.
Good lord, they combined two horrible things into one monstrosity.
Oh my, where did they get that profile pic of her? 1995?
IS it true that libertarians want to eat babies and kill poor people?
Does Somalia have roads?
Nah. Libertarians want to feed babies to poor people. Or is it feed poor people to babies? I forget.
It's the circle of life Sarc. We feed the some of the babies to poor factory workers. When the factory workers die before the age of 29, we let the babies feed on the corpse so we can have a new generation of workers.
I didn't agree to road signs. Is it my moral obligation to ignore them?
If money should be backed by gold, what should gold be backed by?
It's just turtles penaltaxes all the way down.
Lead, in 230 grain increments
Who would win in a fight between a badger and a baboon?
Anyone who filmed it and put it on youtube.
If I told you you had a great body, would we then engage in frottage?
What is the air speed of an unladen swallow?
At what psi for the bird cannon?
http://style.org/unladenswallow/
Aren't selfies just anti-collectivism manifesting itself in today's youth?
wow...If i had a liberal arts degree I could, no shit, write my doctoral thesis on that question.
What? You're not going to write about being gang raped?
No, because one doesn't primarily take selfies for personal enjoyment or self-expression, but rather to garner the approval of one's social group.
Which brings personal enjoyment. Duh.
by the way, that compound photo of Nick/Matt?
Seems.... strangely familiar
List 10 things I didn't know about libertarianism and why they would surprise me.
So, How many times do you each plan to vote for Hillary?
Who should really be the host of the Interdependerants?
Penn Jillette
Ok, I 2nd that motion. Do we get to vote?
He already did that in Bullshit, didn't he?
ASSHOOOOOOOOOOOLES!
I was given the pitch that if I never want to see this banner again I should donate today. Well, I donated...
This AM I get a banner that says....
DICKHEADS!
You're just too gullible.
I HAD A CONTRACT, GODDAMMIT!
Is Reason Magazine a for-profit endeavor? And, if so, would it be morally acceptable to hire contributors who don't personally believe what they write?
"Are Libertarians really worse than Hitler?"
Is Kristen really worse than Libertarians?
And then where does that leave Nikki?
The worst of the worst?
You have no idea...
Define 'anything'?
I have a feeling my definition is different.
Ok, I was finally shamed into donating. Now where's my 3738 h/ts that you guys owe me?
Fuck if I'm going to donate. I don't want that poor little r to be drowned in Tang. That's just not cool.
There are worse ways to go.
You're talking about 'tang, right?
I'm always talking about 'tang.
You're a fellow knife collector? Cool!
If its going to die for a word, its word is "Tang"
Wa-Da-Tah!
Why does Reason support Holocaust denial and apartheid?
If I donate am I engaging in group think?
Nobody wants your fake dollars.
If a trolley was barreling toward assecs, Mexicans, and deep dish pizza casserole and you could pull a lever sending it toward weed and circumcisions, why do you hate teh children?
Joke's on you, libertarians can't even build roads, trolleys are way down the tech tree for them.
I'm sure as hell not going to make a reddit account, but here's my question: Why are you so in favor of police brutality and government bailouts? You people are monsters.
Followup question: when did you stop kicking puppies for fun?
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Nick and Matt: Your magazine has the momentum of a runaway frieght train. Why are you so popular?
"what is more important? = Exploiting the poor? Or Enslaving and Oppressing women?"
Monocles or a well-organized orphan slave operation?
well-organized orphan slave operation?
Doesn't slavery violate the libertarian code? So monocles?
What are all these faux libertarians doing here? And why are you letting them drink the good stuff?
Fucking Exclusive Clubs- how do they work?
I HAD A CONTRACT, GODDAMMIT!
HAHA, sucker!