The Taipei Times refused to publish my most recent letter outlining the case against gun control, and instead publish somebody's praise for them. Those poor souls. Now I have nothing against praise per se, but what is being praised in this instance, along with a story about leaks of missile testing, is a claim that the ECFA will lead to "closing schools and low birthrates".
Now I don't care much for the ECFA, but the implication that continued or increased trade with China will somehow force schools to close and increase unemployment is ... well... how do I even begin to clean up something as sweaty and dirt-encrusted as that?
As for the editorial article on page 8 of the October 20th paper, I have to say I would cheer at the prospect of universities, colleges and schools closing down and professors up and down the island losing their jobs. Bring it on I say - can't happen soon enough. Those parasites have become swollen and bloated upon the mangled lives of millions of kids for decades now. Their "educational" services are not a necessary means for achieving a life of productivity and they never were.
Meanwhile - I myself receive praise in a comments thread at Samizdata. Yes it's very nice, but I question whether I really am deserving of Mid's superlative ("greatest respect") - there are people out there reaching to a far greater radius than I am and on a much more consistent and, I dare say, high quality basis - you know, I do have a life outside of putting stuff up on the internet and writing to the Taipei Times.
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