Can't a man wear a pink hat? I have this outrageous flamingo Hawaiian print.

I guess its possible that Salon is not 100% propaganda. I've met Dave Weigel, and he's more of a mercenary than an idealogue. Joan Walsh is a tool, a tool's tool, and a die for casting further tools. By default, I believe the opposite of anything the lady has to say, and the topic of the IRS is just a case in point. I consider her a paid regime liar.

Part of the Post-WWII ecosystem, yes.

That U.S. crotch you're cheerfully kicking might not be able to bail out your "actual civilized" buttocks from the next war.
So, pray for peace. I don't wish you ill, but the "actual uncivilized reality" can be a, well, you know, 'bear'.

Strangely, I agree with your outburst of honesty here: Socialism is the highest form of trolling. "The Kingdom of God, hold the God" is the über-troll of all time. I knew that, if we stuck with it long enough, we could reach consensus. God bless you, and have a great weekend.

I always say come-to-Beavis in lieu of CTJ, for religious reasons.

I'll take your topical tap-dance as: "I got nothin'".

Right here:

Isn't Eich in the same trajectory as Phil Robertson and Chick-Fil-A? I've no more argued that Eich is a First Amendment issue than I have the other two.

As usual, I wish you'd quit being an apologist for Conservatives, who are running around ranting about the Etruscan/Atlantean alliance, the planned over-running of the country with komodo dragons, and the threat of being enslaved by pygmies from Bulungi and forced to carve Easter Island heads from the Rockies, to be arrayed across the midwest so as to spell "Eat At Joes" when viewed from geosynchronous orbit.

tl;dr: I think you're being silly again.

Farris starts at 9:50, and is worth your time.

Neither do the CoS people, which is why the project is set up to get the whole thing communicated, agreed upon, locked in by enough states so the outcome is assured, and THEN bring about the Article V convention. In other words, the "runaway convention" argument has been considered.
Meanwhile, the current cast of crooks is destroying the country. The "devil you know" argument is out of gas.

I guess if there wasn't such a broad pattern of federal abuse over the last 5 years, I'd be more inclined to agree with you.

Socialism, socialism, socialism.

Yeah, I hate to piss on your golden calf, but the empirical results of Socialism are that - 0.1% own the social ownership,
- the government "borrows it forward" to bribe the people with entitlements, and
- the result has been to turn our country into a stagnant debt plantation.
Socialism is an inferior existential model. In a medicinal context, it tries to declare every limb broken and put it in a regulatory cast. Theologically, it is an ersatz Sermon on the Mount that fails utterly to provide the necessary spiritual feedback to bring humans into full bloom. If you could manage the weather this way, you'd be decreeing a perpetual summer, until Nature, unable to bear human hubris any longer, let fly with another Ice Age.
The Socialist elements (entitlements) in our country are based upon cheating. Wilson started it, FDR watered it, LBJ expanded it. The 9th & 10th Amendments, meant to cap federal over-reach, are so much shredded chastity belt. We're awash in debt, and have a President who. . .campaigns effectively.
Junk's coming to a head. It's my hope that we have a come-to-Beavis meeting, do a Constitutional Convention and either kick this Socialist cock-up to the curb, or ratify and finally legitimize it, so old cranks like me can STFU.

Why do you H8 Article V? We can keep trying to elect more and more reformers, but until we do something substantial to restore the separation of powers in DC, I don't foresee any improvement in the slow pirouette to tyranny.