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October 31, 2012
"The skills needed to keep a 7-Eleven viable in a rough neighborhood, I confess, dwarf those of the classics professor."
Works and Days » Why Liberals Think What They DoIn the elite liberal mind, there is instead a sort of progressive Big Rock Candy Mountain. Gasoline comes right out of the ground through the nozzle into the car. Redwood 2x4s sprout from the ground like trees. Apples fall like hail from the sky; stainless steel refrigerator doors are mined inches from the surface. Tap water comes from some enormous cistern that traps rain water. Finished granite counter tops materialize on the show room floor. Why, then, would we need Neanderthal things like federal gas and oil leases, icky dams and canals, yucky power plants, and gross chain saws -- and especially those who would dare make and use them?
Posted by gerardvanderleun at October 31, 2012 4:43 PM. This is an entry on the sideblog of American Digest: Check it out.