Now that I have your attention...
No. Just kidding. This post really is about Taylor Loren.
That's because Taylor Loren seems to think Caught Red Handed is anonymous. It's not.
Trouble is: Taylor Loren is a girl about town. Nobody could accuse her of being uninformed about UBC politics. So if SHE can think this blog is anonymous, it's not unreasonable to assume that others think so too.
Of course, if you looked at the bottom of... well... any article, you'd see that it is, in fact, written by ME.
I was especially displeased to hear that someone of Taylor's eminence could think my blog was anonymous because: a) I said hai to Taylor at the AMS meeting b) I don't really like anonymous blogs and don't recognize their place outside of real leak sites (you don't count blackboxtheater). Anonymity is all hearsay. It can't be taken seriously. The accused have no opportunity to cross examine their accusers. Rumors get started (like the one about Hillel funding Bijan) that can never be put to rest because the kind of adversarial dialogue required for a definitive conclusion can't happen. Anonymity is not healthy for a political blog. That's why I chose to take full credit for Caught Red Handed, from day one.
Who am I?
Julian 'McCarthy' .
Who is Julian 'McCarthy'?
A political, slightly metrosexual man from Toronto who loves New York, dabbles in philosophy and theology, and currently resides in Vancouver. Between you and me, Taylor, I'm not even very conservative. I'm a genuine moderate. On campus, that puts me just right of Karl Rove. In truth though, I really am moderate. You don't believe me. But look, I'll prove it.
I do support the Conservative Party of Canada, true, but that is really more about my support for being fiscally and internationally responsible. Except for differences on taxes (which are more technical than political) and the Conservatives' stronger support for the armed forces (always a good idea), the Conservatives aren't too different from the Liberals, long considered Canada's most central political party.
The thing is that in Canada, due to the political climate, the Constitution and the make-up of our Supreme Court, there really isn't any dimension of social conservatism (issues on which I'd tend more to radical center). After the same sex marriage debate ended for the last time, the book was essentially closed on issues of social politics in this country. Abortion is legal. It always will be. It's a Constitutional thing that nobody can change. And there are no mainstream voices calling for change. That's why there is no pro-life/pro-choice discourse in Canadian politics. For what it's worth, I'm pro-choice.
Gay marriage is the same deal. Again, I'm for it, with the obvious qualification that it should not be forced upon religious groups. The whole notion of state marriage is a tricky one, but so long as it exists, two people - be they men or women or... otherwise - should be able partake of its privileges. Religions should be, and are, able to marry who ever they want according to their own tenants.
So on abortion... pro choice. On gay marriage... pro choice.
On gun control, I'm strongly opposed. I feel like the issue really warrants its own post. Suffice it to say that when catapults are outlawed, only outlaws will have catapults.
Foreign policy is probably the realm in which I'm most conservative. But it's also the realm in which traditional definitions of conservative and liberal tend to fall apart. I take objection, for instance, to many of the so-called conservative isolationists who have grown in popularity of late. I'm for a strong, interventionist foreign policy. I believe that increased American/Canadian and NATO participation in world affairs, both politically and diplomatically, is good for us, and the rest of the world.
I am realistic about the war on terror. I am neither interested in prosecuting an impossible war, nor in surrender. I am familiar with the existential threat that extremism poses to our way of life, and I invite its swift destruction through the most expeditious, moral means available.
In the United States, I would probably be a very moderate Republican or Democrat, so close to center, in fact, that it wouldn't really matter which. (I'd probably be a Republican though, because their radicals annoy me less than the dems' radicals do, and because Abraham Lincoln was a Republic, and come on, he was ABRAHAM FREAKIN LINCOLN! That and their logo is an elephant. I LOVE elephants.)
So there you have it: yet another dastardly liberal myth defeated on Caught Red Handed.
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