Saturday, April 19, 2014

Charles P. Pierce: George Will Gets Behind The Worst Idea In American Politics

George Effing Will, conservative public intellectual and extremely bad baseball writer, has nurtured within himself a sweet tooth for a lot of the worst ideas in politics -- many of them so bad that even the Rehnquist court turned up its nose at them. He flirted for a while with the term-limits crack pipe. He tried his hand at climate change denial, until enough people wanted to feed him to a starving polar bear that he backed off. I liken these odd enthusiasms to a old sheepdog gone out to play in the yard with puppies, or to your Uncle Manny's trying to do the Electric Slide after a couple of Harvey Wallbangers at a big family wedding.

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