is not compatible with:

“Most people think of politics in terms of left and right. In America, there are liberals and conservatives and anyone in the middle is a moderate.”

If Howard Dean and gang “go down not left”, they’ll be called flip-floppers. Until most people understand that politics isn’t just left and right, your free advice is worth every penny 🙂

I’d be very interested in your review of Atlas Shrugged. I’ll throw another log on the fire and fluff the cushion in the empty chair here next to me on The Lower Right in hope that you might be coming by. I’d offer to have a beverage waiting, but I’m particulary unsure as to what to pour for you. Coffee is probably safe and reasonable, but could be sub-optimal. Jamaican Blue Mountain I think.

You got some survey questions wrong, though. The best answer was 5.0, -2.82. My guess is that we differ WRT “Always question authority” to which I said “Disagree” because it’s just not practical, but that’s likely an artifact of my screwy overly-literal interpretation of things. I’d be fine with strongly disagreeing with “never question authority” if that clarifies.

I also think the kind of rampant wiretapping we have today is bad MOSTLY if you have something to hide, because I don’t believe our gov’t will fall down the slippy slope so far that it has such practical consequences that it becomes a net negative. We can agree to disagree I hope 🙂