You spelled "chiropractor" incorrectly, and you do not need an apostrophe to refer to "Americans."

Fixed. Sorry about the typos -- been spending too much time in front of a computer screen for the last few days.

what are you, Joel, the grammar nazi? NO SPELL CHECKING FOR YOU!

Yes, we have some of those in the libertarian movement. Consider, for instance,

http://www.smallgov.org/?p=382

You may remember administrator (Dirasian) as the guy who loved dissing Hammer of Truth, Steve Gordon and Loretta Nall.

He doesn’t like us ‘cuz we cuss over at Last Free Voice.

Ironically for the pedantic Dirasian, the very sentence in which he accuses us of being “semi-literate” is grammatically incorrect:

“The semi-literate authors, seem to be short of adjectives.”

The comma is superfluous. And Dirasian is supercilious, and super-silly-assed.

Does anybody even read Dirasian's excessively wordy, pretentious crap?

I think the next president should have a history of being drug free, a mental evaluation before even being put on the ballot.

As you can see the drugs I don't doubt affected his brain, let alone his BIG fat ego.

I don't.

My candidate for President is certainly not drug free (although some people draw a distinction between herbs such as cannabis and drugs)

http://www.kubby2008.com/

But then again it's saving his life - not just against the odds, but completely rewriting the odds.

At the link above check out "About Steve" and "About the campaign".

Regarding Dirasian - he's not a libertarian. He censors comments and people for no reason other than that they dont agree with him. - I cant post comments there for instance. When I blogged The New Libertarian and Liberty For Sale I never censored anything unless I considered it actionable in a court of law.

Um, I don't know Dirasian, but censoring people on your own site doesn't make you "not a libertarian," Tim. You can set up whatever rules of expression you want on your own property. That's libertarianism 101. In fact, I think if anything the LP has been too loose with its rules about who's allowed to speak under its auspices, particularly at its nationally televised conventions.

From another JT:

It may not make you not a libertarian, but it certainly does demonstrate close-minded myopia. I guess media censorship is fine too, because it's all private property.

Doesn't make the idea of private property look very appealing when guests are treated rudely.

Smaller government one piece at a time. We don't need to argue about which pieces are chipped away first. Fight for all the issues; win some. It is that easy.

Can't we stop the silly practice of appending "gate" to the end of every scandal?

John Thomas: "It may not make you not a libertarian, but it certainly does demonstrate close-minded myopia. I guess media censorship is fine too, because it's all private property."

Everyone sets up rules about what kind of expression they want to allow with their own property, John. Would you like a Nazi or a Communist to give a political speech in your living room? I hardly think answering "no" makes you guilty of "close-minded myopia".

It's reasonable to discuss where the line should be drawn, but to say libertarians must have NO line when it comes to their own resources is absurd. The only thing libertarians should oppose is allowing politicians to draw the same line for EVERYONE.

Great article.

If only the Watergate incident had happened at a Holiday Inn-- then we wouldn't have to name every scandal "whatever-gate".

According to Robert Noval they do not censor comments at Small Gov Blog.

http://www.lastfreevoice.com/2007/02/17/some-wanker-needs-blog-traffic-starts-fight

See the comments.

"but censoring people on your own site doesn't make you "not a libertarian," Tim. You can set up whatever rules of expression you want on your own property."

Actaully, it's more of a sniveling coward type of thing. It's hypocritical to censor blog comments from certain folk while allowing expression from others while calling yourself a libertarian. Libertarians dont have the need to hide their thoughts behind "private property" protections. Know why? Becuase if they ran the world, here would be no civil courts. How would one sue to enforce the protections?

I NEVER censored one blog comment on Liberty for Sale, agreed or not. Ask Noval, who got to publish any comment he ever wanted there. I had a principle that freedom of expression was more important than hiding behind your Wordpress software. So I let anyone say anything they wanted, unless I thought it was actionable. I took down maybe 3 comments in 2 years.

and I might have bigger things to worry about these days. Really, who gives a flying F?

I'm disappointed. I thought this thread was going to be about Bill Gates.

Bummer.