ConsLibModism

When I see politicians on television, invariably I want to do this:

By now you're probably trying to put me in a liberal/conservative Democrat/Republican box. Let me help you out with some facts about me:

• I listen to Rush Limbaugh and watch Jon Stewart's The Daily Show and think they're both brilliant.
• I think Michael Moore and Pat Robertson should both be locked in a cell together as punishment for their sins.
• I think Roe v. Wade is an enlightened compromise on a Gordian-knot issue and I think it terrible that the Supreme Court is writing law.
• I listen to National Public Radio (especially A Prairie Home Companion, Car Talk, Wait Wait...Don't Tell Me!, Fresh Air, and All Things Considered) and enjoy the Fox News Channel (especially Special Report with Brit Hume and Fox News Sunday with Chris Wallace.)
• I enjoy reading everything written by Thomas Sowell and Charles Krauthammer and Chistopher Hitchens and Maureen Dowd.
• I listen to Mozart and Enya and Nirvana and Steve Morse.
• I like jokes I wouldn't tell my wife and appreciate the subtle poetry of Emily Dickinson.
• I like Pulp Fiction and the Kill Bill movies and Pride and Prejudice and Persuasion.
• I watch Masterpiece Theatre and The O.C.

In short, I have an oddly wide range of interests and tolerance. The political party I would belong to probably died with Benjamin Franklin.

There. I think I just lost 60% of my readers. But as Bill Cosby once said, "I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody."

*** It is all very simple, or it is all very complex, or it is neither, or both. Ashleigh Brilliant

UPDATE

I must admit I love this Open Letter to Europe by Herbert E. Meyer for The American Thinker. Somehow I missed it the first time around.

Juicy quote: "But before you write us off as just a bunch of sweaty, hairy-chested, Bible-thumping morons who are more likely to break their fast by dipping a Krispy Kreme into a diet cola than a biscotti into an espresso – and who inexplicably have won more Nobel prizes than all other countries combined, host 25 or 30 of the world’s finest universities and five or six of the world’s best symphonies, produce wines that win prizes at your own tasting competitions, have built the world’s most vibrant economy, are the world’s only military superpower and, so to speak in our spare time, have landed on the moon and sent our robots to Mars – may I suggest you stop frothing at the mouth long enough to consider just what are these ideas we hold that you find so silly and repugnant?"

***It's not what we don't know that gives us trouble, it's what we know that ain't so. Will Rogers