Submitted by Branden on Thu, 07/24/2008 - 5:10am. Earlier this week I had the pleasure of lunch with Libertarian gubernatorial candidate Michael Munger. Since he openly invited me to that lunch here on BlueNC, and I accepted, I reckon he won't mind if I share some of my thoughts on the experience with my fellow wild-eyed progressives. I will begin with the most important thing I learned: "Munger" rhymes with "hunger", not "plunger". We started things off, bizarrely enough for anyone who's ever spoken with me, with a brief discussion of sports. Since my knowledge of the field ranges from meager (football) to nonexistent (everything else), this didn't take long, and after five minutes of that and ordering food, it was time for my new acquaintance and I to launch directly into laissez-faire capitalism, authoritarianism, Ayn...
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