Robert Bork: f'in' nutcase...

[acroyear]

Dispatches from the Culture Wars:

From the December 19, 2005 issue of National Review, in an article on "How to increase liberty in America", Bork goes Orwell on us. Jacob Sollum has the money quote:

"Liberty in America can be enhanced by reinstating, legislatively, restraints upon the direction of our culture and morality," writes the former appeals court judge, now a resident scholar at the American Enterprise Institute. "Censorship as an enhancement of liberty may seem paradoxical. Yet it should be obvious, to all but dogmatic First Amendment absolutists, that people forced to live in an increasingly brutalized culture are, in a very real sense, not wholly free."

Censorship increases liberty. War is peace. Black is white. And Bork was unfairly kept off the Supreme Court. Riiiiiight.

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[fiona64.livejournal.com]

Censorship increases liberty. War is peace. Black is white. And Bork was unfairly kept off the Supreme Court. Riiiiiight.

Chocolate has always been 35 cents, and we've always been at war with Eurasia ...

[acroyear70.livejournal.com]

actually, its the whole Lewis Carroll thing : we have to make war on him because he's a threat to peace!

that is, in effect, precisely what drove the current policy.

[acroyear70.livejournal.com]

and when i was a kid, i got my candy bars for 25 cents.

nyah.

[fiona64.livejournal.com]

Argh. Do I feel old or what?

When I was 4 or 5 (I know the age because of when we lived in the particular area), I would sometimes be given a quarter when my mom or grandmother went to the grocery. I could generally get both a comic/"funny book" and a candy bar.

I am really old.