Sometimes, conservatives start to believe this shit they have going on about how they are Thoughtful Intellectuals. This is always a dreadful mistake, leading, as it ineluctably does, to Abominable Crimes against the English Language as an Instrument of Concision & Beauty.
Ladies and Gentlemen, I give you Mr. Paul J. Cella. I'd rather give you crotch lice, honestly, but I'm fresh out at the moment.
In my reading, constitutional government, that is, real limited government, with efficacious mechanisms to check to aggrandizement of state over the individual, and which perseveres in the face all the rapacious schemes of the sophists and radicals, is a peculiarly evanescent achievement. In the modern age, outside of the British Isles and North America and a few other isolated places, it has hardly ever existed; in ancient times it was even rarer. Now, as the modern age comes to its miasmic and disordered end, we have influential people, many of them near to centers of power, who seem to fancy that this precious commodity, this delicate achievement assembled on a mass of human knowledge and wisdom astonishing in its range and profundity, can be simply imposed, following the effacement on that troublesome structure the nation-state, on the globe from the lofty heights of a world government. It does not strike me unreasonable to reply that such a project will merely mean the demise of constitutional government.
Myself, I am convinced that constitutional government is in truth a peculiarly Schweppervescent achievement. This I Believe, as they say on NPR, though I very much wish they wouldn't.
Anyhow. I realize that Cella's English teachers only gave him good grades to get rid of him, but they still rather richly deserve a punch in the snout.
An idiot with a thesaurus is still merely an idiot, but he may yet also post vapid front page garbage at Red State. Like, maybe. Could happen.
UPDATE: From the mailbag, a New Fan writes: "Your Blog is just full of HATE."
To which I reply: Well spotted! What gave it away?