Now there's Maaz for you

The Samizdata Illuminatus advertises the Libertarian Alliance Conference 2005 over at the Samizdata Blog thusly:

We may be wandering through a vast desert of stupidity, monstrosity and petty tyranny but never forget that there are some oases of sanity still to be found.

Now I do agree with most (though not all) of their politics, that seems a bit over the top even to me.