Do forgive me if I reveal one of my guilty pleasures: reading Salon. It’s where the more froth-mouthed of the progressive types go to prove their chops and see if they can get a job actually being paid for their screeds. Some manage it, which explains much of the American Prospect and The New Republic. Some just manage to float ideas that don’t really work, like this oxymoron of neoliberal fascism.

An oxymoron is to jam together two or more concepts which are actually polar opposites — like military intelligence, freedom through work, or free healthcare. They’re simply things which logically cannot work nor exist.