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From the book Power in the People by Felix Morley, as linked by Gary Galles at the Ludwig von Mises Institute:

Exalting the State is steadily to augment its physical power at the expense of Society. The more that power can be concentrated, the more perfect the State becomes as an instrumentality of suppression in the hands of those who believe in suppression…

Barack Obama wins the Nobel Peace Prize?

For real?

For what?

For his "I'm ashamed to be an American" world tour? Is that the criterion? For his ineffable rainbows and unicorns goodness?

What.

The.

Fuc%?

Of course, the Nobel Peace Prize committee has beclowned itself before.

Al Gore.

Yasser Arafat.

Kofi Annan and the U.N.

HA HAH HA HA HAAAH HAA HAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!

LIVE FROM NEW YORK, IT'S SATURDAY NIGHT!

Morons.

UPDATE: The Times of London agrees with me, by the way.

For some reason, the song "We're an American Band" is now running through my head.

More Cowbell.

Expect quite a few more link dumps in the coming few months, for the reasons I posted about earlier.

If you're lucky, they'll be Annotated Link Dumps. Like this one:

(heh heh heh . . . click the Read More. You won't be sorry. OK, you might. Caveat Emptor.)

From the book Power in the People by Felix Morley, as linked by Gary Galles at the Ludwig von Mises Institute:

The American theory is that every man has within him the potential to make a significant contribution of some kind to human welfare. Therefore every minority…must be protected against the ever-possible tyranny of mass opinion.

The blogging has been hot and heavy for a while here at Medary.com. But I'm in the process of shifting gears as summer recedes in the rear view mirror and we breeze through fall and head for . . . college basketball!

I'm also working on a few other projects which will occupy some of my time--I've accumulated a pile of books that are begging to be read; I've finally hooked up a turntable to my computer to finally convert my old vinyl LP's to digital iPod-ready tunes (which is what I happen to be doing tonight); my partially-written science fiction novel has been languishing and it's starting to get really lonely; and I've started writing a more politically-oriented tome as well. I've got a couple of pieces of lawn furniture to sand and re-lacquer. Go get a flu shot or two. Celebrate a wedding anniversary. Keep losing weight. You know, stuff like that. So much to do, so little time.

The bottom line is don't be worried if the rate of posting slows down here. I've got my usual Thought of the Day series queued up for a while, and my retrospective One, Two, Three, and Four Years Ago series will be there too to tide you over should I neglect things for a day or three. I'm around. But I'm probably busy.

Don't panic.

It's for a good cause.

No, really.

And yeah, I'm late. Why am I always the last one to find out about these things?

Whoo boy. This one's gonna hurt.

Breaking hard, as they say in the business.

Click here to go to the details, but be warned--some of the pictures are quite graphic. And contain Republicans. And raaaaacists.

I said MORE COWBELL!

From the book Power in the People by Felix Morley, as linked by Gary Galles at the Ludwig von Mises Institute:

Encroachment on the rights of others is not prevented by withdrawing the power to encroach from individual hands and vesting it in government bureaus.

Flying their Mitsubishis, even!

Mitsubishi A6M "Zero," from Wikipedia

Oh. Airliners. Not Zeros.

Artist's conception of the MRJ, from Mitsubishi

That's OK then.

Flying Mitsubishis possibly coming to the US at the Cranky Flier.