Noam Sane says:

I don’t know, but I do know that Jonah Goldberg possesses the intellect of a 12-year-old. So I’m not likely to watch the video. Just sayin’.

qb says:

A very happy 4th of July to all you Americans.

B, Dog says:

In the movie Paths of Glory Kirk Douglas quotes Samuel Johnson as saying “Patriotism is the last refuge of a scoundrel.”
I’m with Kirk on this one.

bobbo, telling shit from shinola says:

#35–interglacial==THANK YOU, very much. First time I have ever gotten an answer on point.

Course a consistent time line is not “proof.” I assume in all the letters written at the time there must be a few that state the concerns you have summarized.

It does make sense. It is in fact the reason I have come to, using hooman psychology not history, to resolve how our liberty loving Founding Fathers could declare universal human freedom yet keep slaves.

Yes, money/wealth the gaining and keeping thereof is the root and body of many evils.

Again, interglacial==I will direct my attention to what you surmise and see how it may be supported/supplemented/contradicted in “the record” if it hasn’t been scrubbed already?

Thank you.

pedro says:

#47 Is it only now that you find that the independences of not only the US but also the Spanish colonies had to do with money? No comments!

Greg Allen says:

If you’re a blogger, NEVER allow ourself to be photographed with a Dr. Pepper in our hand. There’s just no overcoming that geek-factor.

pedro says:

#50 The guy does have a dorky look. The Dr. Pepper can only makes it more obvious.

Gildersleeve says:

I’ll address the video question, which is why are people posting without watching it? It takes too long! Everyone knows that most verbal discourse contains way more words than meaning. The point of written reporting is to reduce that discourse to it’s salient points, which typically can be summed up in a sentence or perhaps two. As the Internet improves technically, it’s content becomes decreasingly relevant. We all know this so we’re skipping it. It’s easy to post 10 minutes worth of babble, but it takes brains to extract meaning from it, and writing skills to expose it. And, no one pays for these skills anymore.

As for patriotism, well, it’s hard to be patriotic, even for a great nation such as ours (US) when the bulk of your leadership (poltical and otherwise) is SO incompetent. All of the woes we suffer today are the direct result of incompetence at all levels of western society. And we likely don’t even recognize competence when we see it. We certainly don’t reward it anymore, so nothing is likely to change in this generation.

Patriotism will show from those who manage to find a way to overcome this.