Eric, over at Classical Values, wonders whether or not readers enjoy his “libertarianish” rants:

I hate to be a bore, and I have no idea whether readers enjoy reading my libertarianish, anti-government kvetchings, which tend to be endlessly expansive simply because the government bureaucracy grows endlessly more intrusive.

Before I can let Eric know what one of his readers think, I’d like to share a couple of paragraphs from the post (though I recommend you read the whole thing):

That an aquarium in a bedroom can be considered the legitimate business of the government pushes all my libertarian buttons.

Whatever happened to the idea of keeping government out of the bedroom, anyway? Is the rule, like, it’s OK to screw to your heart’s content and expose yourself to whatever dangerous diseases you want, but God forbid that you have too big a fish tank!

As a regular reader of Classical Values via RSS, I have to say that I very much don’t enjoy reading these sorts of rants. Nothing would make me happier than to live in a world where a post like this never appears anywhere… except in fiction. Unfortunately, that’s not the world in which we live, and as long as this sort of nonsense is going on (it pushes my libertarian buttons, too), I’m glad that there are those like Eric who bring the nonsense to light.