{"id":8261,"date":"2015-04-15T09:03:45","date_gmt":"2015-04-15T13:03:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/?p=8261"},"modified":"2015-04-15T09:03:45","modified_gmt":"2015-04-15T13:03:45","slug":"reasons-j-d-tuccille-on-the-d-c-devils-dictionary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/2015\/04\/15\/reasons-j-d-tuccille-on-the-d-c-devils-dictionary\/","title":{"rendered":"Reason&#8217;s J.D. Tuccille on the D.C. Devil&#8217;s Dictionary"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Reason&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tuccille.com\/\"><strong>J.D. Tuccille<\/strong><\/a>, the author of the <a href=\"http:\/\/jimbovard.com\/blog\/2013\/05\/08\/j-d-tuccilles-zesty-subversive-romp-high-desert-barbecue\/\">highly-recommended<\/a> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/dp\/B0061GO1YI\"><strong>High Desert Barbeque<\/strong><\/a>,\u00a0 wrote the following on the<a href=\"http:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/opinion\/2015\/04\/13\/tax-season-bureaucratic-lingo-dictionary-of-terms-column\/25456971\/\"> USA Today D.C. Devil&#8217;s Dictionary<\/a> piece:<\/p>\n<h4 class=\"title\"><a href=\"http:\/\/reason.com\/blog\/2015\/04\/14\/freedom-whatever-rulers-have-not-yet-ben\">&#8216;Freedom \u2014 whatever rulers have not yet benevolently prohibited&#8217;<\/a><\/h4>\n<h4 class=\"subtitle\"><em>When discussing government, cynicism just can&#8217;t go far enough<\/em><\/h4>\n<p class=\"byline\"><a href=\"http:\/\/reason.com\/people\/jd-tuccille\/all\" rel=\"author\">J.D. Tuccille<\/a><span class=\"pipe\">|<\/span><time datetime=\"2015-04-14T17:51:00+00:00\">Apr. 14, 2015 1:51 pm<\/time><\/p>\n<div class=\"p402_premium\">\n<div class=\"entry postcontent\">\n<p><span class=\"addcaption pic right\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" title=\"&quot;Cynic&quot; and &quot;anarchist&quot;\" src=\"http:\/\/cloudfront-media.reason.com\/mc\/2015_04\/JamesBovard_JamesBovard.jpg?h=225&amp;w=300\" alt=\"James Bovard\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/><\/span><\/p>\n<p>That definition in the headline comes courtesy of occasional Reason contributor <a href=\"http:\/\/reason.com\/people\/james-bovard\/articles\">James Bovard<\/a> (pictured above), author of such politician-puncturing and bureaucrat-tormenting books as <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/140397666X\/reasonmagazineA\/\"><em>Attention Deficit Democracy<\/em><\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/B005Q64AXG\/reasonmagazineA\/\"><em>The Bush Betrayal<\/em><\/a>, and <em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/0312123337\/reasonmagazineA\/\">Lost Rights<\/a><\/em>. At <a href=\"http:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/opinion\/2015\/04\/13\/tax-season-bureaucratic-lingo-dictionary-of-terms-column\/25456971\/\"><em>USA Today<\/em><\/a> he &#8220;celebrates&#8221; (notes? mourns?) tax week with an updated devil&#8217;s dictionary of common terms you&#8217;re likely to see acquire slippery if not completely perverse meanings in the mouths of government officials elected, appointed, and indicted.<\/p>\n<p>Perhaps my favorite of Bovard&#8217;s current batch of definitions is the one quoted above: &#8220;Freedom \u2014 whatever rulers have not yet benevolently prohibited.&#8221; Yeah, that about covers it. Freedom, of course, involves activities that have not yet been engulfed by the body of &#8220;Law \u2014 Any hodgepodge of commands and special interest windfalls heaved together under a misleading title which is rubberstamped by Congress and fails to make five Supreme Court justices visibly retch.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Then again, perhaps Bovard&#8217;s definitions, and my agreement, are &#8220;Scurrilous \u2014 anyone who mentions previous federal failures when the president proposes glorious new programs.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>See the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.usatoday.com\/story\/opinion\/2015\/04\/13\/tax-season-bureaucratic-lingo-dictionary-of-terms-column\/25456971\/\">whole thing here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Reason&#8217;s J.D. Tuccille, the author of the highly-recommended High Desert Barbeque,\u00a0 wrote the following on the USA Today D.C. 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