We have some great commenters here on Hair Balls, and it’s time we paid some damn attention to them.
So we’ll be highlighting a Comment of the Day each morning or afternoon from the previous day’s work. Maybe two comments, even.
This will all be determined by a highly rigorous scientific formula involving wit, clarity and whatever else we feel like at the moment.
We pointed out a mere two of the inanities of the 2012 GOP Texas platform.
One reader listed much of what we had chosen to miss.
Reeseman wrote:
Then there’s return to the gold standard, abolish all sex education except total abstinence until marriage, abolish the capital gains tax, reduce education funding, trade property taxes for a consumption tax… it’s a parade of craziness. John T. Harvey, writing in Forbes, calls it “terrifying.”
This article appears in Jul 5-11, 2012.