Update: [March 16, 2022]
Thankfully, Mr. Burris has been resurrected at LRC, where he can continue his zealous education of those with eyes wide shut.
ORIGINAL POST
The conclusion of yet another internecine spat [see here and here and here] at Lew Rockwell results in the departure of Charles Burris, whose writings were more historically informed and parapolitics-wise than that of many of his colleagues.
I didn’t agree with some of Mr. Burris’ posts, especially ones in which he touted the “Camp of the Saints” while on every other day professing that collectivism of any kind was anathema to libertarianism. I marveled at the cognitive dissonance.
On the other hand, he was fascinated by the Kennedy assassination, power-elite analysis and conspiracy, and wasn’t a purist too good for the real world, as many of his confreres are.
His support for Governor Noem was the hill on which his blogging life ended. I daresay the angels didn’t like his support for Marjorie Taylor Greene either.
But I did.
I went through something similar while commenting at Robert Wenzel’s site where I often had a pack of libertarians nipping at my ankles and howling at alleged “authoritarianism” or “statism” …terms they hardly seemed to understand…but used more or less as imprecations whenever someone adopted a position not considered kosher by the libertarian, er, collective..Rothbard cultists…Mises mob…. whatever you choose to call it.
Ah well. I too have ended up tending my garden.
A literal one.
While the curs still waste their efforts circling and nipping at some other poor sod’s socks, my angel mist bamboo has gone from 15 feet to over 40.
Two wind-burned royal poinciana saplings that I wrestled onto the back of a pickup have spread their parasols over the roof of the house and their writhing shade over the blazing sidewalk.
My oyster shell mulch has bleached and crumbled almost to beach sand in the yard.
I quadrupled more than quintupled my investment in money terms and I gained something priceless while doing it, something which still seems to elude so many people on the web:
Thank you for your well-researched writing at LRC, Mr Burris.