[Urbane Guerrilla]

Originally Posted by SamIam

I think the pot is calling the kettle black. Given UG's supposedly high intellect, one would think that he could come up with more pithy terms than "lying sack of shit" among others.

And I did. Review the same post for "son of a threelegged bitch" as well. Other remarks anent Radar's character and intellect may be found elsewhere, of a non-choirboy tone. Naval service can among other things make you eloquent.

Originally Posted by SamIam

Also, UG keeps going on and on about the atheist Democrats. I have no idea where he gets his information, but he scarcely comes off as a choir boy, himself.

I don't recall linking those two terms anywhere in my writing. My problem with the Democrats as presently constituted and led is they're too socialist and much too statist, and unable to fight undemocratic enemies. While these are three strikes, none of these is necessarily atheist, and I really don't beat up on atheists much, though I do regard them as unfortunate and am not shy about saying so. "Progressive" is something chiefly progressive of enlarged state power, and too much power centering in the State is bad for humanity. Tends to keep humans subadult, and that can't be good.

When you come up with stuff like that, Sam, should I perhaps start questioning your reading comprehension? You never seem to get beyond finding what you expect to see there, and I keep seeing your expectations getting out of line.

Originally Posted by SamIam

Finally, I am amazed at your support of "libs" and "cons" when you are, in fact, a monacharist.[sic]

I presume you meant "monarchist," which I know you've spelt better in the past. Copyedit, m'boy, copyedit -- you do have an hour or two's window. Again, I question your comprehension of what I write. Erik von Kühnelt-Leddihn was an unabashed monarchist, and I've said so -- about Erik. My ideas of how to run a real-world nation run much closer to republics, and democratic ones. Standard-issue American, really. English conservatives tend to monarchism; American conservatives to republicanism -- something that in eighteenth- and nineteenth-century England was regarded as a dangerous radicalism.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erik_von_Kuehnelt-Leddihn

Originally Posted by SamIam

Bruce told me to read UT and Bruce was right. The man's a riot.

Oh, and for the record, I'm NOT defending Radar. Radar can get quite nasty without my help.

I agree, and think it shows sense on your part. I like when you do that.

EvKL's case that fascism and communism fundamentally confound "left" and "right" as popularly understood was unusual, all right, and striking. But he made the case very well in Leftism Revisited. I found it persuasive; I would not have agreed with the idea before he laid forth the argument.