Chicken joke: Leo Strauss

27Jun09

Q: Why did the chicken cross the road? Leo Strauss: This is just another instance of the chaos wrought by modern man’s permissive egalitarianism. The ancients tell us that the road was made by and for free men, not for collectivized domestic fowl. Today we are faced with a tyranny of ‘technology’ and ‘the conquest [...]

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Chicken joke: Zell Miller

19May09

Writing about jailed Alabama governor Don Siegelman (on another blog) reminded me of Siegelman’s mentor, the notorious party switcher Zell Miller of Georgia. Q: Why did the chicken cross the road? Zell Miller: Because there’s no longer any place for a conservative chicken on that side of the road.

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