Friday, February 27, 2004
You Learn Something New Every Day
Well... ...not totally new. I should've known that it wasn't Marie Antoinette that "said" "Let them eat cake," but I had forgotten. What I didn't know was that the legend of "Let them eat cake/brioche/whatever" is an in-your-face story about the infinite wisdom of government intervention in economic affairs by bleeding-heart liberals.
Ask Yahoo! on November 22, 2002. (just to show this isn't from one source)
This has the plus of dissing the French Revolution in general, which is arguably one of the big defining features of Burkean conservatives like myself.
I think the best word to describe this sort of newfound knowledge is, of course, delicious.
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