A Reasonable Response To A Reasonable Bag Of Dicks
People of a certain blog-reading vintage will remember the good old days of Tom Maguire, proprietor of Just One Minute. He (along with folks like "libertarian" Glenn Reynolds) was promoted as a "reasonable" conservative with whom efforts should be made to reach out; this open letter from Crooked Timber is indicative of the efforts of which Maguire was thought worthy. I was never smitten with such love for him. The more wrong he is, the more snide he gets - it's like Protein Wisdom, but without the same desperate need to prove that his penis is the Nietzschean ubermensch. Over the years, this has led to a few interactions in which Maguire uses his acceptance as a "reasonable" conservative to attempt to halt criticism of himself. After all, if even such wild-eyed liberals as that one guy and someone else who writes for TNR think he's reasonable, you must Che Guevara!