I warn you ahead of time . . .

. . . this is going to sound like one of those Kip questions.

Is requiring college students to buy a Sprint cellphone with GPS tracking a legitimate government* function?

What if the student's dad works for AT&T? What if the student is Amish?

When I went to [S]MSU, they had an exclusive Coke contract so that no Pepsi vending machines would be allowed on campus, but even THEY did not require you to purchase Coke. You could always go to Dillon's or Git-n-Go and buy Pepsi and bring it back to campus.

[H/T 2 Two Johns No Waiting on KMOX.]

* - Montclair State is a public college, supported with tax dollars and therefore a tentacle of the government.

Apparently, I am uncharacteristically verbose today.

I tried to add this comment to a Kippy post, but it bounced back at me with an automated bitch that I used too many damn words. :) So I'm posting it here instead.

I have for the most part been spared any meaningful bombardment by the Paulbearers, despite my several unflattering blogposts about their icon.

Part of the reason for that might be that your posts confuse us. Your arguments against Ron Paul seem to be directed at a face-to-face matchup in the general election of Ron Paul versus the Libertarian winner.

In short, you're fighting a fight that it's not time to fight yet.

Dr. Paul and the Libertarian nominee (whoever that might be) are still in the primaries and are not competing against each other yet. And yet your arguments go along the lines of "You shouldn't vote for Ron Paul in the primaries because he's not as consistently Libertarian as the Libertarian candidate . . ."

Those arguments would have some OOMPH in the general election, but Dr. Paul has to win the primaries first for those arguments to be relevant.

What does voting in the Libertarian primary get us? Another Libertarian, any of whom many of us will vote for in the fall should Dr. Paul lose the Republican primary.

So the question becomes, why not vote for Dr. Paul in the primary?

I like that even better than "The 'It Takes A Socialist Village' Speech."

Kip comes up with an excellent term -- The Hillary Manifesto!