It was too good to be true.
Well, the anticipated termination of the Contra-Crunchy Conservatism blog referenced here http://novaemilitiae.squarespace.com/periodic-musings-blog/2006/7/8/ps-about-that-certain-category-of-idiot-referenced-in-the-entry-below.html did not materialize. Tonight they're posting again. As of 9:20 MT, here is how this evening's blog entry begins:
Forget about nukes--if you want to destroy Manhattan, just drop a copy of this Casey Stegall essay from the 86th floor observation deck of the Empire State Building. The crater would stretch clear from the Chelsea Piers to the House Ruth Built. Here's a teaser:
There's an irony inherent in a system like our own that identifies the individual as the fundamental unit of political, social and economic order. Because it shears the individual of the republican virtues cultivated within communities of tradition in the name of empowering him, it actually makes the individual subject to tyranny. Limitless emancipation in the name of progress is, it turns out, the final and most binding mechanism of control.
The fun thing about Stegall is that he is like the Id to Rod Dreher's ego. While Rod tells us about his recipe roasted chicken and some cute little house he saw the other day, Stegall is passing out torches and waving around a pitchfork.
I used to work as an editorial associate at a big-city daily paper and one of my jobs was to open all the nut mail the reporters received. Now I am not saying Casey Stegall is a bizarre crank who would send 17 pages of single-spaced discussion of the metaphysics of computer hacking and 4th-dimensional psychic powers to a newspaper that would never be accused of taking itself too seriously.
And so on and so forth.
http://concrunchy.blogspot.com/2006/07/densest-material-known-to-man.html
Of course, the blogger is referring to New Pantagruel editor Caleb Stegall ( http://www.newpantagruel.com/ ). I guess we see why the blogger used to be an editorial associate.
No matter. Mr. Stegall excels our blogger intellectually by several orders of magnitude, as is evident from even a cursory look at his articles and web zine. In addition to being a better editor. Here's the link to the Stegall article to which the blogger at Contra-Crunchy relates as an annoying fly:
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