Notes on a Purveyor of Nonsense ... and Jowls

Speaking of Straussians who aren't dead, I came upon this interesting footage of one Dr. Harry V. Jaffa, Ph.D being interviewed on Uncommon Knowledge in reference to a book he wrote on the Lincoln-Douglas debates half-a-fucking-century a go. Though he was born in 1918, a year before the birth of my grandfather, he has outlived my grandfather by 22 years, time that has been spent holding dick-measuring contests with other conservative intellectuals and Supreme Court Justices who he feels don't heed the wisdom of the Declaration of Independence -- i.e. the Will of God -- enough in formulating their opinions, judicial or otherwise. Sure, Dr. Jaffa may not have smoked nearly as much as the late George Morgan has, but one can't help but wonder if the Morgan tradition of watching sports and yelling at neighborhood kids is a more diginified, efficient manner of pleasing absolutely no one than using one's academic tenure to tell people their doing a shitty job by accusing them of John C. Calhoun fandom.

You be the judge ...