I show you what intellectual honesty looks like, and you ignore the chance to demonstrate you have some as well. Tell me of a lefty writer you like for his policy, but think is stupid. Tell me of a popular, well known righty you disagree with, but admit is intelligent and well-spoken. Can you even show that minimal fairness, or are you so caught in your own ferocious partishanship that you’re nothing but a mouthpiece.

I show you what a minimally fair review could be, and you don’t seem to learn.

I suspect that reason is useless with you. You want to define reasonable behavior by me and mine as unreasonable. We don’t see it that way, and since we not only have the preponderance of ideas, brains, and numbers, and this is a democracy, well, you’re out of luck. If you choose to make this a simple contest of power, you lose.

Of course you’ll deny that, but the last thirty years of the Conservative Revolution boom louder than you can yell. Its ‘liberal’ thats a curse word, after all.

Tennwriter

Wonder what PW has to say about that title!

I haven’t read your book (sorry) so I don’t know if it deserves a good or poor review. But to get back on point, most critics are liberal, most journalists are liberal, and most media personnel are liberal. Numerous polls on political contributions, voting patterns, etc. will back up this fact.

And why not, certain kinds of people gravitate toward certain professions. So, I guess I’m saying don’t sweat the review. If your book is good, it will eventually stand on it’s own merits.

Did you notice Matt opossumy shoes hasn’t returned? He’s the one who said the Japanese weren’t interred because of race, but because of their “nationality.” Good geeyad in Burbank - that is…unsmart. And I said so. Which was sorta fun, since Matt said that while being a great big meanie and scolding me. He must have realized that it was dumb and doesn’t want to show up again. Either that or he’s spent all this time constructing an enormous spit ball to shoot at me.

And who’s disagreeing with me with invectives?

And where was I foul mouthed?

And you missed the Iraq connection? Me too!!! Good to see a RWer admit that.

Guitar player and (NF) writer here too - pleasure to make your acquaintance. No Uni grad - – I went for the Naknek Nablus Langtang degree. (I can’t remember a damn thing about it.)

We obviously have very different political beliefs. The problem here, IMV, is that you, or some YOU here, you can decide for yourself if you belong, go beyond political difference. I have political differences with lots of people I know, including most of my good redneck family. They don’t think I want Al Qaeda to take over America. They don’t think, and accuse me - constantly - of being a “traitor” or a “terrorist sympathizer” or some such ludicrous and, if I cared what idiots thought, truly offensive nonsense. They know better, and you should too about your political adversaries. You really, really, really should, and even if you truly had such fears (and that’s what they would be) you would by the simple rules of good driving, carpentry, or conversation handle them in a constructive fashion. If you don’t, and many of you don’t, then you are exposed. Malkin, Bruce, Ingram, Horowitz, Charon, Schweizer - they all not only employ such destructive and ugly idiocy, they do little else. They are one-trick ponies with ugly tricks.

And please, don’t do the “That’s what you’re doing right now!” thing. When someone’s throwing hammers at you, throwing knives back at them doesn’t mean you’re like them - it means you’re using your head. I thought and think going to war with Iraq was wrong and that we should get out and be a more constructive and intelligent and generous, more so than we already are and in a more constructive way, nation. I think going to war with Iraq was, on the part of the administration, an act of ignorance and cowardice. For that - I had hammers thrown at me. By idiots.

You want my tips on conservative writers? How about Tom Wolfe? That shouldn’t count, since what I’ve read hasn’t been about politics, at least not explicitly. How about PastorDan on DailyKos? (Pa-Dum.) How about Andrew Sullivan? I haven’t read any books by him (I read and write, mostly at a computer, all day and it has withered my reading time), but I read his blog often. He drives me crazy, but he’s not ugly. He’s a smart thinker and he seems to listen and to question himself. I have a lot of respect for him. Steve Clemons at the Washington Note is a giant. He is far more conservative than I am, but he is smarter than myself about domestic and world affairs by several factors and is very generous of spirit.

Later