Why, Heritage, You’ve Quite Stolen My Heart « Megan McArdle: "I hardly know what to say about this monstrosity. So I’ll just quote PJ O’Rourke: “Farm policy, although it’s complex, can be explained. What it can’t be is believed. No cheating spouse, no teen with a wrecked family car, no mayor of Washington, DC, videotaped in flagrante delicto has ever come up with anything as farfetched as U.S. farm policy.”
He wrote that in 1990. Almost 25 years later, it sounds as fresh as if he were blogging it from the Starbucks at 1st and E Street NW. Which itself basically tells you everything that you need to know about our agricultural policy."
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