[lit-ideas] Re: C'mon people now - or almost rhyming

Prof. Paul will be heartened to learn that the newly minted Tennessee state 
legislature is also doing its best to defend the right of good Americans to 
carry firearms, and not just on college campuses. 

Concealed weapons: coming to high schools near you (or at least me). 

Gives me a warm, fuzzy feeling. Like blood pooling around a wound.

-Wm. Dolphin
Memphis, but not for much longer

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>Mike Geary averred that
>
>> On the old Phil-Lit there was a brief discussion of "fascist" and 
>> "fascism". I argued then that I considered "fascism" moral 
>> authoritarianism enforced by the state.  I now think the term has just 
>> about lost of it's meaning -- like the word "God" -- it means whatever 
>> the user needs it to mean.  For most Americans, I think, the word still 
>> carries a negative connotation, but what's negative, and therefore 
>> fascistic, is dependent upon one's politics. I love calling people I 
>> disagree with "fascist" because I know the opprobrium it carries within 
>> my heart and it relieves me of having to go through the tedious 
>> argumentation that both I and my fascist opponent know will never come 
>> to any agreement.  So bring it on, fascist bastards!!!  I'm ready to 
>> call you out.
>
>For several years in Senior Symposium we read Robert Paxton's The 
>Anatomy of Fascism. Don't ever let Paxton hear you say that 'fascism 
>means whatever the user needs it to mean.' He's especially good when it 
>comes to things that you might think were fascism but aren't. If you 
>believe fascism is a small, iridescent beetle, Paxton says, 'Bring it on!'
>
>I suggested to Lawrence that he might like this book, but I don't know 
>if he ever got around to reading it.
>
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>
>Out here where the West stops, a citizen-student has sued to be allowed 
>to carry his concealed weapon on the campus of Western Oregon 
>University. Those pointy-headed liberal gay junkies are trying to stop 
>him from exercising his God-given right to feel secure on the quad.
>
>There's also a movement underway to make the names folks who have 
>concealed weapon permits a matter of public record. Same bunch of 
>cowardly mortgage defaulters are behind it.
>
>Robert Paul.
>all rifled up in the 'burbs
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