Maybe This Will Explain...

I've had fun arguing with my friend Becky on Facebook lately. She thinks my contempt for pretty much the whole federal government is incomprehensible and bizarre.

Glenn Miller is a racist asshead running as a write-in for the U.S. Senate. He'll get about nine votes, provided he stays on good speaking terms with all his blood relations, but still he's out there buying radio and TV ads.

The ads use such terms as 'mud-people' and 'coon' to describe black people and claim America is run by a conspiracy of Jews. It's so out there, it's actually kind of cute, like an Onion News Network story come to life.

It wouldn't be cute if Miller had as much political clout as some schizophrenic dressed as the Statue of Liberty in front of a tax preparer's office. But he doesn't and I think he knows it.

Personally, I think Glenn Miller is exactly who the First Amendment was written for. He's a sorry excuse for a human, but if we ban his vile speech, next thing you know they'll censor me. I can't think of anything I agree with Glenn Miller about, but I hold some fairly heterodox and unpopular opinions of my own about central banking, fiat currency, regulation, taxation, etc. The main difference, is my heterodox opinions are actually correct where his are a fantasy out of the Klan scene in O'Brother Where Art Thou.

But the big thing I realized is this whole deal explains my distrust of Uncle Sam pretty well. The same broadcasting company, Entercom, that is compelled by Federal law to run Miller's hateful and idiotic ads, was fined $250,000 by the FCC because the Johnny Dare Morning Show 'titillated' people. They played Naked Twister, even though you can't see nudity on the radio and you have to take them at their word that anyone took anything off. One of their producers did a stunt where he masturbated a porn star to orgasm with a dildo on the air.

In bad taste? It's their stock and trade. If it was in good taste they'd be unemployed, it's a morning show on a rock & roll station. Don't like it? There's NPR to your left and a Country Western station to your right.

And the thing is, from the IRS to the FCC to the Social Security Administration to the Department of Defense, this behavior is not abnormal, not atypical. It's what you expect when dealing with a Federal bureaucracy. Why don't I trust these people with our healthcare?