Thoughts on America being closed
Oct. 1st, 2013 06:51 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
sabotabbyToday my kids asked if the Canadian government shut down too or just the American one. I should have told them that ours shuts down every time Harper has his ego bruised, which is all the time. It doesn't seem to affect the country much, to be honest.
Apparently some Democrat called some Republican "anarchist," I guess in retaliation for Republicans calling Democrats "socialists" and "communists," or, more charitably, in reference to Chesterton's awesome quote: "The poor have sometimes objected to being governed badly; the rich have always objected to being governed at all." Dear Americans: Words mean things. You already ruined "libertarian" for the rest of the world. Please call the Republicans or Tea Partiers or whatever what they are: fascist douchecanoes. I may not be an anarchist anymore but anarchism is a legit political theory that has a pretty specific meaning.
This is the only article about it I've bothered to read. I've been busy.
On a completely unrelated note, I'm very slowly changing the look of my LJ, not that anyone would likely notice besides me. I was overhauling my Proper Website and accidentally deleted my banner (which I was hosting there), then decided not to put it back up since the photo barely looked like me, or Marinetti, anymore. I don't know if my current banner is just a placeholder or not; every time I see it, the kittens look so joyful. I can't help but think that kittens, pie, and communism sums up the vast majority of my blog entries.
I killed the blogroll, though. Half the links were broken and half aren't things I read anymore, or even support. Not sure if I'm going to put a new one up; it would seem useful, but I'm terminally lazy.
Apparently some Democrat called some Republican "anarchist," I guess in retaliation for Republicans calling Democrats "socialists" and "communists," or, more charitably, in reference to Chesterton's awesome quote: "The poor have sometimes objected to being governed badly; the rich have always objected to being governed at all." Dear Americans: Words mean things. You already ruined "libertarian" for the rest of the world. Please call the Republicans or Tea Partiers or whatever what they are: fascist douchecanoes. I may not be an anarchist anymore but anarchism is a legit political theory that has a pretty specific meaning.
This is the only article about it I've bothered to read. I've been busy.
On a completely unrelated note, I'm very slowly changing the look of my LJ, not that anyone would likely notice besides me. I was overhauling my Proper Website and accidentally deleted my banner (which I was hosting there), then decided not to put it back up since the photo barely looked like me, or Marinetti, anymore. I don't know if my current banner is just a placeholder or not; every time I see it, the kittens look so joyful. I can't help but think that kittens, pie, and communism sums up the vast majority of my blog entries.
I killed the blogroll, though. Half the links were broken and half aren't things I read anymore, or even support. Not sure if I'm going to put a new one up; it would seem useful, but I'm terminally lazy.
