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Typing in Your Mother’s Basement Does Not Constitute Military Service

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While I generally don’t see any value in the use of the term “chickenhawk,”
like Tom Tomorrow I’m certainly willing to make an exception for people who think that cutting-and-pasting Republican press releases on their blogs actually constitutes serving in the war. Look, if you don’t want to serve in the war that you consider to central to the future of the country, that’s your privilege. But you’re contributing absolutely nothing to the war effort. What you say on your blog isn’t national service, and has no bearing whatsoever on the outcome of the war, and trying to convince yourself otherwise is profoundly embarrassing.

I also enjoyed this part of a recent example of the Captain’s always dippy and tendentious analyses of Canadian politics:

The trend, though, points towards voters abandoning the Grits and deciding to support the Tories. After taking Quebec out of the equation, where Tory ally Bloc Quebecois will win the majority of seats and Liberals will likely take most of the rest, the gap almost puts Stephen Harper into majority-rule territory.

Yes, if you take the second-largest province–which has more seats than the next two largest provinces put together, and where the Conservatives can’t win a single seat–out of the equation, Harper could get a majority! Similarly, if you take Texas, Florida, and Ohio out of the equation, John Kerry won the 2004 election in a near-landslide! And if I looked like Brad Pitt, I could make a living as a model! I also enjoy the fact that Morrissey is fully comfortable with the Conservatives’ secessionist allies, although it may strike someone who was a principled conservative that while the Bloq might be the Tories’ allies in terms of not allowing the Liberals to form the government, they’re not going to be very reliable allies in terms of, you know, passing substantive conservative legislation. (They don’t want a stable government; they want to undermine the country to break it up, and the Bloq certainly doesn’t share any significant economic or cultural beliefs with the Harperites.) But, of course, it’s Ed Morrissey, so talking about what “principled conservatives” might think is beside the point…

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