re: #557 swami

I don’t think Charles has been kidnapped. He’s gone through a period of severe irritation at the irrational aspects of the fundamentalist wing of the Republican Party, exemplified by their creationist/intelligent design tendencies. I’m in complete agreement with him on this point, but I think it has colored his perception of a lot of other topics that aren’t directly related to this. I can see why he would lose respect for the judgment of Bobby Jindal, Rick Perry, et al., who are tainted by this nonsense but (sadly) these guys are in many cases our only line of defense against the socialist agenda the Pelosibama Dems mean to shove down our throats without debate (or even reading the bills, really). Sopmetimes you just have to use the tools at hand, if the levee’s about to break.