Can you smell the liberty in the air? Isn't it wonderful! The 18 trillion dollar, liberty destroying behemoth that is the American federal government is shut down (really, slowed down ), and liberty is prospering! Woohoo! One of the things I have found fascinating about this most recent shut/slowdown is how the internet has basically been having a ball with it. As that anti-Big Government "Grumpy Cat" meme (above) demonstrates, contrary to all the inside the beltway doom & gloomers, most Americans are finding this political deadlock to be less of an opportunity for fear and more of an opportunity for humor. Good for them! Just like the dreaded "sequestration cuts" proved to be much ado about nothing, so has this "shutdown" proved to be a lot of fear-mongering nonsense. American's are learning that the chattering classes inside DC live in a very different world from most Americans. While we fear not being able to put food on the t
Because Edmund Burke would have been a gamer....