Liberals were quite cranky about a rodeo clown in Missouri.

A Texas rodeo planned to have an Obama rodeo clown, because they don’t care what the left thinks.

Well, that day has come and gone, and I’m not able to discover a single news story about it.

I suspect the lesson here is that when you refuse to apologize after doing nothing wrong, your insane accusers crawl back into the degenerate rat holes from whence they came.

[High Praise! to According to Hoyt]
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How can anyone think we have too many liberties?

Oh, I know. They think that because they believe in the myth of the “superior man” who will take care of them. The man on the white horse who knows better than everyone, and who can run everything so that no one is ever afraid or poor or sick or marginalized.

In other words, they dream of the ideal childhood.

The rest of us know that never in the history of the world, not even the calmest, has there been a time when a leader could guarantee safety, health and contentment to everyone. There will always be poor, unloved, suffering people. You can’t help that.

You behave in a way you help those around you and you try not to be a burden, but even then at times that will fail.

Those of us who are religious believe a time will come when we will live like that, in perfect harmony and contentment with a superior being watching over us.

But last time I looked, neither king, premier, president, emperor or satrap had the power to look into the hearts and minds and judge everyone perfectly. And no, the NSA spying ain’t it. And none of the above were the creators of the universe.

They are all, in fact, fallible men, usually fallible men attracted to power over others, who want to run you not for your own good but for their own internal satisfaction. And since people who crave this sort of power tend to be more broken than writers, their internal satisfaction might be something that even they don’t understand.

There is no man on a white horse. There is, always, an old trickster, coming to town and promising eternal peace. If you look carefully, you can see the horse is a mule that has been painted white. And the man is just using the same old promises the human brain is wired to crave, but what he wants is quite different. And even if he truly believes what he says, he can’t deliver. He’s just a man. He can’t know what each individual wants and needs. Only each of you can know what he wants and needs. And sometimes not even that.
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So you’re a bad person if you don’t send your kids to the failing public school system. And since my wife and I plan to home school, I guess we’re basically Hitler.

I find people either care for the individual and have little regard for this collective we call “humanity,” or you care for humanity and have little regard for the individual. I think it’s pretty easy to see what side Allison Benedikt is on with her arguing how you shouldn’t worry about your kids being in a mediocre school since it will help fictional children generations from now. Thus, is Allison Benedikt a soulless, fascist monster? Basically. But we’re used to living around such people; we just need to make sure they’re powerless — writing an article for Slate every now and then for public ridicule and nothing more. To have someone like her have any power over your children (and you know she’d make public schools mandatory if she could) would be unthinkable.

And if you want to help the collective good, punch a stupid hippie. Actually, I’m getting near finishing my new book focused on punching hippies; when that comes out, it will be my contribution to the collective good.