Only 12% of the general public would describe themselves as “progressive,” but most people seem to be unsure what it means so that’s better that the term “liberal.” Liberals ruined the term “liberal” (which was a good term; I think “classical liberal” describes my politics better than “conservative”) by getting it associated with their arrogant, douchey politics so that “liberal” now means to most people “utterly useless idiot who thinks he’s smart and should force his ideas on everyone else,” so they tried to shed that term for a new one — “progressive” — and are slowly corroding its meaning too until eventually it will be toxic as well. Conservatives, on the other hand, took a term that wasn’t that great (why would you want to be a conservative when currently the status quo sucks?) and made it good by association. Now “conservative” just means to most Americans “someone with common sense.”

So next time instead of liberals taking an actual word people might want to use for other purposes and corrupting it, maybe they can just call themselves a completely made up term instead. Like “muckadoo” or something. That would be considerate of them, but then considerate of the population at large isn’t very progressive.

The NAACP took time off from looking for coded racism in greeting cards and calling anyone who disagrees with Democrats a racist to listen to Michelle Obama speak.

Yeah, I don’t know why they would do that, but the NAACP does seem to be full of fringe crazies these days, and that does sound like the wacky sort of thing a crazy person would do.

Anyway, so you’re wondering what inherent disdain or misunderstanding of basic American principles did Michelle display this time? Well, she said “dessert is not a right.”

Well, maybe she was taking a libertarian position and dessert isn’t a right because if you don’t have money to buy dessert, it’s not like the government is supposed to supply it for you. But then she said that health care is “a true civil right” which once again demonstrates that a liberal’s understand of rights is as coherent as a paranoid schizophrenic. So, back when this nation was first founded and no one had any health care someone today would consider worthwhile, who was infringing their civil rights? I’m going to go with the most evil thing known to man: rogue unicorns.

So why do liberals see things like abortion as a right but don’t think self-defense is — despite that being inherent to pretty much every creature? Because they like the word “rights” but don’t understand what those are. Basically, in the liberal world, you have no rights in far as you may conflict with their plan for the state. Icons of individual power like money, guns, and speech (when directed against the power of the state like in the Tea Party) they only see as threats and not rights. If liberals weren’t so good at quickly marginalizing themselves, we’d have a lot more to worry about than them taking away our ice cream.

With the release of Roman Polanski by the Swiss, I’ve noticed there is a growing cultural difference between America and Europe: We don’t like evil, but Europe feels it’s just too sophisticated to care about such things.

French culture minister (is it his job to make sure the Eiffel Tower is extra tall and impressive?) said of the Polanski release, “Now is the time for appeasement. [When isn’t it the time for appeasement with the French? -Ed.] The painful past, the rich personality, the unanimously admired works of Roman Polanski all find their place again.” See, Polanski made movies that, while no box office successes, smart people were supposed to like, which made them important… much more important than child rape.

In America we don’t get that attitude. Artsy-fartsy directors are a dime a dozen… and we probably weren’t going to watch those films anyway. What we do like watching is having a child rapist flung and shot with a cruise missile… along with anyone who objects to harsh punishments for child rapists.

So what do we do with Europe? Same thing we’ve been doing for a while: Wait for them to continue to wither and die and hope they leave us an inheritance.