re: #52 Charles

That’s what you get when you try to be responsible these days. I’m now being smeared by both the left and the right.

I’m not exactly sure when this started happening. I could swear that, back in my childhood, the general sense in America was that the more highly valued political views were the ones that sounded sensible, rational, considered, intelligent, balanced, and untainted by extremism. Now, participating in American politics is like being a fan at a college basketball game. The more you paint your face and bare chest in your side’s colors, put on a crazy wig, jump up and down, and scream unintelligible stuff as loud as you can, the more respected you are.