unchecked. They are the disciples of Pangloss where the free market and absolute personal freedom creates "the best of possible worlds." They float in a sieve and bail furiously to stay afloat. It was regulations that cleaned up America's waterways, desegregated schools, removed highly toxic pesticides from the shelves, and made automobiles safer. Deep ocean fisheries are a good example of what happens when there are no regulations to thwart the market's insatiable greed: commercial extinction of the once vast schools of cod, swordfish, and tuna. -- RobbieC My personal favorites A= If you want to ... ... get a better feel for the libertarian mindset, a brief foray into the "comments" section of Reason Magazine would be instructive. It appears to be dominated by 23 year old boys living in their parents' basement, where they spend entirely too much time re-reading Ayn Rand and thinking up scatological insults for other Reason readers and too little time interacting with actual human beings. PWND!!! (also, he took 12 years off my age, and killed all my friends! 2XPWND!) And B= one of the more... civil and substantial threads on Salon in a long time. Frankly, I think, because not only did the trolls not show up (no red meat), but so few self-avowed libertarians did as well - the callow, glib and born on third base. The most biting criticism comes from within the libertarian circle because they actually understand the various strands of libertarianism well enough to pry at the