Ain’t No Party Like A Ron Paul Party ‘Cause A Ron Paul Party Has A Scientology Table

The Ron Paul people went and had their own counter-convention in Tampa this past weekend. Ron Paul didn’t show up. But the Church of Scientology did.

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I don’t hate all Libertarians. They get a few things right here and there. And it can be useful to talk politics with them one at a time. They’re like Pirahna: one is OK, but get a bunch of them together and it’s a nightmare. And if they start talking about the one true Lord and Savior Ron Paul then you’re best off just making your excuses and getting the hell out of there.

Alex Jones is the King of All Crackpots

I first heard about Alex Jones during one of my first breaks home from college, catching up with a friend from high school. He went to college in Meadville, PA, at the same school which after one semester drove Trent Reznor into the happening nightlife of Cleveland and probably fueled his angst-based career for the next 20 years.

So there wasn’t much to do in Meadville. One thing to do was drive around delivering pizzas to townies while listening to the Alex Jones radio show. That’s what my friend did. This was in the days before iPods, so unless you wanted to drag around your CD collection and risk it getting stolen by Alex Jones fans for crystal meth money, radio was your only option.

So we would get stoned and laugh at the crazy man yelling about the global “elite” in his documentaries. It’d be fun to pick apart the fact from fiction and to try to identify the point where reasonable concerns about government waste turned into the fever-dream rants of a paranoid lunatic. So yeah, the drug war is bullshit, but it’s not part of a UN plot to end American sovereignty.

Let’s Beat Up On Ron Paul

Last week on The Daily Show, Jon Stewart did a segment on how the media’s been conspicuously avoiding coverage of the Quixotic Presidential campaign of Ron Paul. His supporters loved it, probably hoping that more coverage of Paul would mean more people getting on board with his campaign. But more coverage means more coverage of his crazier positions too, and there are a lot of them.