If it wasn't so sad, it would be funny...

I invited people to go here and leave comments for Mr Simberg.

Rand is something of an issue for me, I came across him first on sci.space.policy years ago and over the last 5 years I must admit I've developed a rather deep loathing of him.  He claims to be a Libertarian, he claims not to be a Conservative - however, his warblogging and irrational nature of posting nonsense first enthralled me and eventually drove myself and many others off that newsgroup.  I occasionally see things which link back to his Blog and back he comes like a bad penny.

Rand is, at his heart, a self publicist.  He's awfully good at it and, at least in his online persona has a stunning ego.  He started with these "counterfactuals" a year or so ago, drawing hopelessly inaccurate parallels between Iraq and WW2 - he's now laying into the Mother who is camped outside Bush's home in Crawford.  Again, Rand is failling quite painfully to understand the issues that other people have.  Empathy, it would appear, is a real issue for him.

I can't post on his site, or rather I won't, but if anybody likes his stuff, he's amazingly profilic.  He's had a Fox News online column and accounts for 25% of the traffic on some Usenews forums.  Quite where he finds the time to do his day job astounds me.

If you really want to pile on the Ummm? factor, Samizdata is having a tail eating contest over the natural conflict between their so called "Libertarian" leanings and their natural Right Wing Conservatism - the real problem, in my mind, for the Conservative party too - over the Menenzies affair.  Half seem to be wanting lynchings of the police and their management and using it to prove how bad the police in the UK are, while the other half are firmly closing their eyes, sticking fingers in their ears and shouting la la la and that there is "more to it than meets the eyes, he was guilty of something."

People are weird.

EDIT: Links played with

Tact...

Had my hair cut today. The place I usually go is a tad expensive, at least by my definition of expensive, in that a haircut costs more than £5. However, the barber is a fun Aussie girl who likes discussing Rugby and Cricket and they serve beer while you are having the cut.

Her tactful comment of the day was while she was explaining what she'd done.

"I've layered the sides here and here to work with this bit (hair on top of my head) which is... ummm... finer than the rest..."

There are parts of getting older I don't like.

37 in 3 weeks...