Giving the Other Guys a Chance

So just now I was gonna blog about some totally rad emo record coming out next week when I received my 2345435th email newsletter of the day, this one called “The Libertarian Perspective: A Weekly Op-ed Brought To You By The Libertarian Party of California.” The Libertarians are one of the litany of political parties vowing for the 1 in 100 people who don’t automatically just vote for the Republican, the Democrat or, every once in awhile in CRAZY WILD elections, the independent. I think NOFX wrote a song about them one time, but for the most part they operate even farther outside the mainstream than outsider parties like the Greens and the Reforms and all those fruity bastards. Thus, I wasn’t really going to give the email a second notice, like all the other bullshit i get in my inbox during the day. But then I thought about it for a second and realized, that by golly, someone out there was putting a lot of goddamn effort into this thing. I mean, not only were they putting effort enough into maintaining a political party that got less than 1% of the vote in the last two presidential elections, but they were also putting effort into sending out newsletters to what must be a fairly beefy contact list (otherwise I don’t really know how the fuck I’d be on it) and getting people who seem to have some idea what they’re talking about (in this case, economist Joe Cobb ) to write some shit for them.

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