An Anniversary and a Passing

Friends, today is a special day for us: this day,  September 23,

is the eleventh anniversary of the day in 2009 when I debuted 

this blog, "Peasant With A Pitchfork". This blog is a passion

for me, and a great source of joy, for I get to share my thoughts 

and observations on the political and economic news of the day

with you, my grand and fantastic readers! Your grateful and joyful

Peasant is thankful to you all for for your readership, encouragement,

and friendship. Although I publish this blog for a conservative 

readership, as I want to give my political brethren some ideas as

well as encouragement and good cheer, I welcome readers of any

and all political persuasions to read its content. One liberal reader

even entered words of praise for me and this blog (!); I just wish

he would have given his name or at least an online moniker.

I reckon he didn't want his political brethren to find out that

A) he was reading my conservative/libertarian blog and B)

was actually enjoying it. Politics are so polarized these days that

such an admission would bring much opprobrium and ostracization

to one from his own on his side of the political spectrum, be it 

a liberal enjoying a conservative publication or a conservative 

enjoying a liberal one. I thanked and complimented that reader

most wholeheartedly. And I thank and compliment each one of 

you, my fellow conservatives who enjoy PWAP. You are the reason

I keep going, posting and publishing articles supporting the cause 

of limited government and abundant liberty. 

And in this small space of time here at the beginning of Autumn, 

a longtime member of the United States Supreme Court has passed;

Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg, the most liberal member of our top

court, died at 87 on Friday September 19 at her home surrounded by

her family, losing a long, on-again off-again battle with cancer.

An archliberal ideologue, she bore no malice for those with whom

she disagreed; she had a warm friendship with the late Supreme Court

Justice and ideological opposite Antonin Scalia. They even shared an 

elephant ride in India (!!) a few years back, your favorite Peasant 

doesn't know the occasion which brought the justices to India, but 

they had a lot of fun. Although I of course rarely agreed with her ideas

and her rulings, I respect her for having the door open to people of

differing viewpoints on law and politics, always willing to discuss 

the differences between them in an amicable manner. A rarity in

a person of the Left today. R.I.P, Madam Justice. 

MEM