On 15 Dec 2005 18:04:03 -0800, in a place far, far away, "Dave
O'Neill" made the phosphor on my monitor glow in
such a way as to indicate that:

Then why pose the hypothetical?

Seems obvious to me. He wanted to tell us that he considers the views
of Perry to be pretty bizarre.

Not all of them, occasionally, like Rand, he makes some very valid
points. But, generally, yes, the guy is weird. Although, not to rain
on Rand's ranting - Pat brought up the subject of how weird the
Samizdata crowd were.

I was merely agreeing with him.

Pat was describing (out of total ignorance, based only on the
picture), how "weird" I and the other two gentleman in the picture
were. I'd be astonished if Pat reads Samizdata enough to know how
"weird" that blog is.

Here is the quote:

Rand is the dazed looking guy on the left standing next to the crazy
looking guy on the right.
That's from this webpage
BTW-http://www.samizdata.net/blog/archives/cat_antics_parties.html
This impresses my as one strange group.

If he was referring to Samizdata, and not the people in the picture
(one of whom is indeed me, one of whom is the author of The
Anglosphere Challenge, and one of whom, as I said, is a current
Associate Administrator of NASA), he certainly had little to base it
on, if he was going on a single post of pictures from a party.

If you read Samizdata regularly, you're certainly entitled to think
them "weird," but it's kind of stupid and nutty to claim that I think
that Perry's views are the British mainstream's. But then, we have to
consider the source...

Of course, when he gets out of the hospital (as I hope he does soon,
in good health, unlike his wishes for George W. Bush, who he hopes
will die from choking on a pretzel), he is welcome to correct me.