Well, I'm Amused

Maybe you too can audition to be a victim of the apocalyptic pink storm.

It's helpful in a movement like this to try to dredge up some actual victims of the purported "crisis". When it comes to traditional "victimless crimes" (e.g. prostitution, drug use, pornography) if you look around, you will find someone who has been injured by them in some (reasonably direct) manner. It may not be the norm for said activities; it may be entirely preventable of even partially the result of governmental prohibition, but there is at least some demonstrable harm. Gay marriage victims? We get actors.

It's time to privatize marriage.

National Boundries and Labor

Will Wilkinson finally returned from vacationing in Thailand, being denied entry to Burma, and getting engaged, so that he might freeze his ass off in Iowa and blog for my amusement again.

See him beat the premise for Nationalistic Labor Protectionism with a rusty, blood-spattered, spiky cudgel and leave it for dead.

Ignore the fact that what I'm doing barely counts as blogging.

Will Wilkinson on Obama's Victory

Will essentially hits the nail on the head here.

http://www.willwilkinson.net/flybottle/2008/11/05/one-night-of-romance/

I'm really mixed about this election. My own inherent distaste for identity politics and political tribalism (his term, I tend to think of it as the less condensed idea of politics as spectator sport: emotional, zero-sum, and irrational) threatens to be overpowered by the pure unadulterated joy that this result has created in some quarters. It is genuinely moving even as I distrust the abstract rightness of being moved by such events.

It is both wondrous and terrible.