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This smacks of someone who thinks he is better than those who differ in opinion and goes on to insult those who disagree. I guess it's conservativism in general bashing more than Bush bashing.

I am guilty of being too secretively tongue-in-check. That was intended as a provocative joke. I was simply taking the time-honored complaint about "liberal academia" to its logical conclusion with respect to journalists. Come to think of it, though, is it wrong?

I *will* plead guily to falling into a sarcastic frame of mind, though, that I should try to get out of. Calling Daniel Schorr a "comsymp". You know I was kidding, right?

I am probably just taking out my frustrations. As liberal as my new place of employment (a university) seems to be, they still won't let me run around the halls screaming "Look at Bush's record!!!', so I come here. As I said to Brad some time ago, if it gets to where somebody sees my name and hits <Del>, I'll never know, will I?. Some of my frustration comes from the incessant label-tossing (more often by conservatives and conservative media). Is John Kerry a "Flip Flopper"? Maybe, but who knows? Say that often enough and he becomes one. It does feel Orwellian. The word "liberal" has somehow been turned into a pejorative. I think that is a crime.

And while I disagree with much of what conservatism is, in principle, about, I don't set out to bash conservatives. Over the past dark year, some of the most valuable contributions to the debate have come from people who are essentially dyed-in-the-wool conservatives. Folks like that Colonel. I think that many conservatives scarcely recognize some of the people running around Washington describing themselves as conservatives and they say as much.

Here's an early New Year's resolution, though: Win, lose, or draw, I will try to be less sarcastic and will avoid jokes unless thay stand some chance of being funny.

I won't stop calling Bush a liar, though. I trust you have read genixia's recap of Bush & Co lies?

Jim


Bonus feature; For whatever reason, I just looked up this dictionary.com entry for "petard" Now I know!

Word History: The French used pétard, “a loud discharge of intestinal gas,” for a kind of infernal engine for blasting through the gates of a city. “To be hoist by one's own petard,” a now proverbial phrase apparently originating with Shakespeare's Hamlet (around 1604) not long after the word entered English (around 1598), means “to blow oneself up with one's own bomb, be undone by one's own devices.” The French noun pet, “fart,” developed regularly from the Latin noun pditum, from the Indo-European root *pezd-, “fart.”
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'Tis the exceptional fellow who lies awake at night thinking of his successes.