re: #4 freetoken

A personality trait that is diagnostic of self-declared “conservatives”. They are very much into an escapist view of life, one in which religious urges are thought of as the most important of human action.

The ability to question oneself intensely enough to make oneself uncomfortable is the opposite of what American conservatism is all about. American conservatism is about finding surety, even if the object of that surety is imaginary.

This also is why good artists tend to not be “conservative”, as the creation of art is directly tied to the angst one allows oneself to feel. Art is about communication through expression, and expression is the opposite of repression.

He’s also full of crap on those traffic fatality statistics about Colorado.

The Insurance Institute for Highway Safety has a vested interest in keeping track of those numbers, because they use those to set car insurance rates across the industry.

The key metric on traffic fatalities is number per hundred thousand population.

Nebraska (where maryjane is illegal) has consistently been higher in fatalities than Colorado (where it is legal).

iihs.org

Looks like I will need to limber up the “liberal letter pen” for another letter to the editor of the Star-Herald. I’m not sure if they will print a letter from me calling my state senator either misinformed or a liar, even if I’m nice about it. It seems worth a try though.