5 Feet of Fury

Yeah, those were the bits that depressed me…

Jim Goad notes that Rand Paul, freethinking firebrand, still felt obligated under penalty of career death to “praise Martin Luther King while condemning Jim Crow laws and calling Adolf Hitler a bad, bad, bad, bad, evil man” — that is, to mouth the usual pieties and state the bloody obvious.

Goad continues that he imagines David Frum “masturbates to footage of Middle Eastern drone strikes,” which gets Frum spectacularly wrong.

But have no fear; he bashes the usual leftist suspects as well.