This Week's Selected Comments

On Martin & Malcolm

"I'm friends with this guy Robbie, old hippie, Berkeley institution. Robbie is the poster boy for 60's Berkeley leftist. Brooklyn Jew who grew up with Arlo Guthrie, is a historical footnote for having gotten beaten up in Mississippi during Freedom Summer '64, friends with Mario Salvo during the Free Speech movement, buddies with Utah Phillips, Wavy Gravy, blah blah blah.... My point is, he's got the pedigree, his credentials as a leftist are solid. If he ever gets pulled over by the PC Police, I think you'll find his papers are all in order.

He votes and speaks a pretty straight leftist ticket. Except on one issue. The 2nd Amendment. He's fully in support of people's right to bear arms (and this from a man who lives in Oakland). He defends his position thusly: The success of the Civil Rights movement in the south was due in large part to the fact that the southern, rural black population was heavily armed.

Were they not heavily armed, the intimidation, the lynchings, and the white on black violence would have kept the movement down. As it was, black with guns kept the whites in order. And Robbie, having gotten his ass whupped by white southerners, apparently knows a thing or two about this from first hand experience.

So like you say, Martin Junior played his part. But white fear of something far worse played an equal, perhaps greater role."


On The DNC Conference in Denver

"As you say, the Democrats are once again retarded.

The Democrats control the purse strings of the the national treasury. If they wanted, they could build a money hose from DC to Louisiana and bury New Orleans chest deep in cash. They could drop Lincoln Navigators full of Benjamins from the Space Shuttle as it orbits over the Gulf Coast. They could load up the Favre Bagre full of counterfeit 50's printed in Chicago and float them down the Mississippi and have them arrive just in time for the Packers-Saints opening kickoff/Democratic Convention after they pass a law requiring the New Orleans Saints to win the Superbowl for the next 10 years. ("Let me ask my Republican colleagues across the aisle this, Are you FOR or AGAINST black people?") And after all that, they could march in for their convention and be greeted as liberators while little black children throw roses at them and pull down statues of George Bush. THAT'S WHAT BEING IN CONTROL OF CONGRESS MEANS, DUMBASSES!

But no. Denver. I hope they pick up all 3 of Wyoming's electoral votes. Maybe they'll have a rodeo."