Like the meteoric rise of certain present political pundits, the appearance of a certain B. Mad on Publius is met by the community with both disappointment and intrigue. Although I am no Connecticut Democ...I mean Independent...one might liken me to a Freshmen Senator (or Governor for that matter) ready to invoke...i mean provoke...reform in all aspects of the current...leadership. Like my current amicable benefactor, i too come from the libertarian/conservative school...although i can be at the same time both more conservative (Oh No! Not one of those crazy Christians...::roll eyes::) and more libertarian (Yes, Ron Paul is God and you have every right to tell me he's not, just don't pass a law that say it either way!)
I just thought i would take this time for cordial introductions. Thus, "Hello blogis-sphere. Run and hide in fear!" That is all!
(I also dig Jefferson like 200 times more than Josh does)
Those who labor in the earth are the chosen people of God, if ever he had a chosen people, whose breasts he has made his peculiar deposit for substantial and genuine virtue. It is the focus in which he keeps alive that sacred fire, which otherwise might escape from the face of the earth. Corruption of morals in the mass of cultivators is a phenomenon of which no age nor nation has furnished an example. It is the mark set on those, who not looking up to heaven, to their own soil and industry, as does the husbandman, for their subsistence, depend for it on the casualties and caprice of customers. Dependence begets subservience and venality, suffocates the germ of virtue, and prepares fit tools for the designs of ambition.
~ Thomas Jefferson, Notes on the State of Virginia
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