Nope, same one (but I didn't recognize it for sure until I hit that last button). Via our good buddy Brian, a quiz. And I got the same result and have no comments different from those I posted at 'Pints some time back. So here is my original pretty much verbatim (read: copy and paste):
Well, like all internet quizzes, it really doesn't allow for nuance. Nor does it allow for multiple answers, so I had to pick one of many applicable answers for some of the questions. Nor did it allow for any appropriate choice for the last question:
If you could pile any three people into a naked pyramid, who would you choose?The correct answer being "Jeez man! Shut up, you're making me sick!"Bill Clinton, Hillary Clinton, and Monica Lewinsky
The Dixie Chicks
The heads of the AFL-CIO, Sierra Club, and Association of Trial Lawyers
Snoop Dog, Marilyn Manson, and Ludacris
Ted Kennedy, Nancy Pelosi, and Howard Dean
Kim Jong-il, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, and Michael Moore
Unless, of course, you replace the words "naked pyramid" with "tar and feathers".
Or, if one must retain the "naked pyramid", the correct choice is "The Swedish Bikini Team".
Oh, and let us not forget the other problem with these internet quizzes: A thoroughly goofy description of the results. Sorry Joel (from whom I stole this quiz), I know you're a Papist and all that, but I think you agree with my sentiment of WTF? That's weird for anybody.
In any case, my goofy description is:
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You are an Anti-government Gunslinger, also known as a libertarian conservative. You believe in smaller government, states’ rights, gun rights, and that, as Reagan once said, “The nine most terrifying words in the English language are, ‘I’m from the government and I’m here to help.’”
Take the quiz at www.FightLiberals.com
Okay, first issue, I am not "anti-government". I am, however, for small government, generally decentralized ("federalist", which seems to have become a dirty word in both the major parties these days). But I'll cop to "libertarian", somewhat less so for the "conservative" part. I'm not so much "conservative" as "prove to me the change before I'll accept it that it's better", which might better be described as "rational skepticism" (not surprising, seeing as how so many of my forebears came from, or funneled through, Missouri).
Second issue: I am not in favor of "states' rights", which is basically a +60-year-old code word for Jim Crow. Eugene Volokh notwithstanding (he set me right a few years back on some details about this subject, though such "states' rights" dealt primarily with the relationship between the state and national governments on a contractual basis), as a general rule, states do not have "rights". People have rights, states have powers delegated to them by the people (cf. U.S. Constitution and Declaration of Independence).
The rest of it I'm okay with: gun rights and that
as Reagan once said, “The nine most terrifying words in the English language are, ‘I’m from the government and I’m here to help.’"Yeah, given the rather, um, tight relationship many of our Congresspukes have had with the slugs messing up our financial system, that last part is particularly apt.


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