Conservative mass murder

Chris, I’m still waiting for the day when warmongering idiots who think they’re conservatives won’t make me sick to my stomach anymore, but it may never come. That column by Kathleen Parker ranks among the more savage things I’ve read in recent weeks. A conservative joking about “nuking” some place or another and calling it “justice.” It would be hilarious to hear how this genius would react if she found out — since I am morally certain she does not know — that the main opponents of the U.S. atomic bombing of Japan were conservatives, including Felix Morley and Richard Weaver.

When Parker won the H.L. Mencken Writing Award from the Baltimore Sun in 1993 (more proof that the Sun has done nothing worthwhile since dumping Mencken over his lack of enthusiasm for the U.S. war machine), the judges praised her for “following the tradition of H. L. Mencken in attacking ignorance and stupidity with vividness and originality.” Mencken, though, attacked the ignorance and stupidity of his own government. I’m sure our prize winner would consider that just plain unpatriotic. (I’d also love to see a Mencken column about Kathleen Parker — Mencken would have had a field day with the seemingly endless supply of propagandized automatons who think as she does.)

Is there anything — principles, morality, limited government, whatever — that these self-styled “conservatives” won’t sell out in their zeal for war and empire? I’d love to know what it is.

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1:48 pm on April 4, 2004