This is the sort of entry where you kinda have to know the players for it to make any sense, but whatever... I used to read Ann Althouse regularly; as in, queued up in my RSS reader. I may have even had her on my blogroll at one time. She is a good blogger, really, and I often wished I had more time to read some of her entries. She's pretty prolific. Takes really good photos too. But c'mon, people. Did anyone really think she was anywhere near "libertarian" at a principled level? She's a Reynolds clone. That is, her entire life has been invested in the legal profession, and just as with Reynolds, "libertarian" means something along the lines of "Efficient Minds and Efficient Markets (through Efficient Law)," if you catch the reference to the Reason tagline, though Reason certainly has that very same problem, and often. I just can't believe anyone finds this the least bit surprising. Virginia Postrel notes: "Althouse was clearly out of her intellectual depth during the discussions..." Uh, no shit??? Have you guys even read her blog for any length of time? Can you point to any post of hers, ever, where she elucidated...