We think we can dabble in freedom - allow a few of its liberties and leave our favorite constraints in place. We think we can screw around with the free market - skip its costs and get all of its benefits anyway. O'Rourke pays homage to what exactly makes the free market work. What allows the free market to flourish is when the government protects property rights and First Amendment rights for instance. Now everything is going on in Moscow.
Crowds load the sidewalks, moving briskly.
Freedom had come to Russia. Now unfortunately I know more than one person who would scoff at the sentiment that ads for Coke signify freedom in Russia. It takes a whole bunch of brains and tremendous talent to write like this and O'Rourke has so much of both it must be leaking out his ears. Used under License.