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Barney Gumble, Libertoonian

posted by Jym on September 28 2006 00:36

=v= In an early Simpsons episode, Homer is pounding on a mailbox, and the town drunk (Barney Gumble) remarks, "I'm with you, Homer! Fight the power!" Barney then walks off, playing a boombox, a pathetic simulacrum of Radio Raheem.

I was reminded of Barney Gumble (not to mention the very concept of a simulacrum) when I parked my bike in front of the Macy's in San Francisco, and found a little sticker on it that said, "Fight The Power! Libertarian Party", plus an URL.

The sticker was too small to include a disclaimer, which in an ideal world would have included a disclaimer: "Public-sector power only. Abuses by private-sector power will be rationalized away, in convoluted fashion, as actually being the fault of the public sector."

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