Tea parties and trolls

I'm doing my tea party posts at Detroit News today and the comment section is rocking with mad protests about my evil liberal self. So I'm going to outsource my tea blogging here today to Fogg, who puts the irony so poetically:

Of course the destruction of tea in Boston harbor wasn't about giving the very, very rich a couple of percent more of the burden of fixing the mess the Bush gravy train left on the carpet, it was about being ruled subject to a king by divine right, amongst which was the ability to tax us, control who we could buy from and sell to and make us subject to the domination of a private corporation without having to grant us any representation. It seems that it's impossible for Republicans to understand that "taxation without representation is tyranny" does not in any way mean that taxation is tyranny. We have representation, but the people did not choose the Republican way and so the simpletons seethe and festoon themselves with tea bags from China in defiance of representative democracy while the Republican Fox smiles and licks its lips.

Read it all at the link and then click over and read his ultimate take on the world of internet trolls.

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