I recently spoke to somebody who wanted me to see if the John Locke Foundation would take a position on an issue. I explained I was a loose wheel, and I told Chad Adams as a condition of blogging that nobody was to tell me what to write. “I make a mean puppet,” said I.
Through the years, the JLF has been great at walking the walk. A couple times, a commentator on the blogs was trying to stir up trouble with some of those questions that make one look bad any way they answer. First of all, I wasn’t sure who I needed to contact at the JLF. When I found out, both times, the answer was, essentially, “It’s your blog.”
It was revelatory to me to see that intelligent people still not only engage in group-think, but they assume everybody else mind-melds. When I was blonde, I was accused of parroting Ann Coulter, whom I’d only heard speak twice. When I turned my hair brown, it was Sarah Palin that was opening my skull cap and pouring in the mush. Maybe I’m just lazy, but it takes a whole lot less effort to ask myself what I think than to pretend to think as everybody else.
