If you buy the generic crystal light, it'll run about 2 bucks and you'll get four or five little packets.  That's more than enough for 2 liters of really cheap vodka.

Well, yeah, it needs a mixer.  That's what Crystal Light is for!

People keep calling him a liar.  Is there something specific he lied about?

They're awesome at budgeting.  That's why they balance the federal budget every year.

For about 12 dollars you can get an 1.75 liters of vodka in a plastic bottle.  That's the alcohol equivalent of several boxes of wine.

Well, I didn't say the world.  I was talking about America.  

I have no idea about Mitt Romney, but I need to add something:

I have this firm belief about America:  There are two kinds of people in America: People who who have made it and people who are still working on it.  But this is America, anyone who wants to can get there.

There's a third kind, the kind that's content to be a janitor, but they are a very tiny minority.

So you have a business owner entrepreneur on stage.  There might be a couple of entrepreneurs in the audience, but the rest of that audience is nodding their head at that entrepreneur because they want to be him.  The message that freedom brings opportunity appeals to them.

That's why glorifying the janitor is stupid.  The entrepreneur, the self-made man, is an American phenomenon.  There are dead eyed janitors everywhere.  You can put him on stage, but unless he tells me about his plans to start his own janitorial service (and it happens, often), I don't care what he has to say. 

Nothing that glorifies that janitor is going to sellf_the_message_of freedom.

This (and considering the number if likes this got, I'm right) really deserves its own post.

That's what it comes down to.  There's a civil-war going on right now in the Republican Party.  We don't know how it'll turn out yet.  

I can still lose and be okay with it.  But it depends how my side loses.

The nightmare scenario would be someone who is specifically anti-libertarian being nominated.  Somebody like Rick Santorum.  

You're at that crossroads, but you don't need to pick a direction yet.  I'm in a similar place.  

May I make a suggestion?

Don't pick a direction yet.  I think the primary in 2016 will be very instructive about the direction of the Republican Party.

It's going to make a choice to accept or reject libertarians.  And not necessarily the result (who gets nominated) but how it goes down will be very interesting.

Isn't that like bad for the springs in the gun or something?

Well, if you mention me by name, I'd comment.

That deserves its own post.

Troy, that intro "The only law school whose tuition is indexed to the price of the McRib," 

Was the best intro you've ever done.

When all you have is a protectionist hammer, every problem looks like a nail.

Ssssshhhhh!   You're not supposed to talk about that.

They're blood enemies and if one triumphs over the other, it'll be the end of the republic!