Speaking of bliss, here's something that simply cannot fail to bring a smile to your face. PowerTools:
Victor Davis Hanson asks why so many Americans are depressed. Suggesting five themes that might provide an answer, he thinks it might be more than the economy that explains our state of mind. I agree, but none of Dr. Hanson's themes accounts for my despair.
I feel utterly powerless to do anything about the fellow in the Oval Office who combines infantile leftism and adolescent grandiosity in roughly equal measures. It seems to me that every day he is responsible for assaults on the freedom and well being of the American people. I can't keep up and I can't stand to pay attention.
His aim seems to be to reduce us to government dependents. His inattention to rehabilitation of the financial system in lieu of vastly expanding the size and scope of the government is a dead giveaway, as is his lack of concern over the vast destruction of wealth his policies are working (and will continue to work).
Aw. Poor little insane wingnut person. This is really just fantastic stuff -- honestly, these were the people crying for years about "Bush Derangement Syndrome," and now they think a 3% rise in the income tax rate for people making more than 250K means Stalinism.
This though is the best part:
Get a clue, man! The mullahs who rule Iran with an iron fist hate you and everything you represent.
Johnson, you understand, is "hip" to the mullah's "jive." The idea that Jamie Kirchik is dignified (!) is gravy, as is this concluding sentence: "I am depressed because the president of the United States is a fool who will immiserate us, render us wards of the state and lose us our life and liberty to those who understand what they are about." Sometimes you stare into the Glenn Beck, and the Glenn Beck stares back at you.
