Neo Con Game: The Bookie of Virtue

[arisbe]

William J. Bennett has made millions lecturing people on morality--and blown it on gambling, according to The Washington Monthly Online.

Those who supported Mr. Morality for the NEH job two decades ago were still attacking the memory of Mel Bradford, the man he beat out for it, as the split between Neocons and Paleos came into the public debate over the opening campaign of the Neocons' World War Four.

Ideas do have consequences, don't they?

Comments

[daisydumont.livejournal.com]

that shocks me about bennett. it's easy to be blind to our own pet sins, isn't it? (i say that knowing i'm blind to some of my own.)

good precedent

[seraphimsigrist.livejournal.com]

One could say Dostoevsky was the same
sort of phoney I suppose blowing the family
money at casinos in Germany.
With paleocons and neocons does it always come down to
attacking personalities?

*snorts at pun*

[baranoouji.livejournal.com]

"If you can't handle it, don't do it."

The only reason he can handle it is that he can soak it up with excess money.

If he has excess money, perhaps he can tithe a little higher or find some other constructive use of his money. I have no problem with games of chances -- my fiance enjoys a hand of penny poker with our friends, and I enjoy a good cardgame myself. However, coming from a family with a history of gambling problems and other addictions...

Mr. Bennett is going against moderation here. By justifying his habits by the fact that he finds them affordable, he is setting up a new sliding scale of sins and virtues: one defined by tax brackets.

For shame!

I am linking to this now, if you don't mind.

- Regards,
E.