9/2/2006

13 Comments

1. I would vote for pinhead.

   Comment by C. S. P. Schofield — 9/2/2006 @ 3:22 pm

2. A moonbat.

   Comment by Xrlq — 9/2/2006 @ 8:00 pm

3. A liberal.

   Comment by OHNOES — 9/2/2006 @ 8:48 pm

4. A commie.

   Comment by Angry Clam — 9/2/2006 @ 10:10 pm

5. You’re using “liberal” as a synonym for “leftist”?

   Comment by Serenity Now — 9/2/2006 @ 10:29 pm

6. /hand wave

   “We’re not the liberals you’re looking for…”

   Comment by Trickish Knave — 9/2/2006 @ 11:52 pm

7. You’re using “liberal” as a synonym for “leftist”?

   There’s a difference these days?

   Comment by OHNOES — 9/3/2006 @ 1:01 am

8. A Trotskyite with no illusions about the illusory nature of American working classes sympathies.

   Comment by Pat Patterson — 9/3/2006 @ 4:49 am

9. What you said.

   Comment by nk — 9/3/2006 @ 5:43 am

10. A professional journalist.

    Comment by Scott Crawford — 9/3/2006 @ 10:12 am

11. A tenured member of the Psychology Department at Harvard.

    Comment by Federal Dog — 9/3/2006 @ 10:53 am

12. A Seattlite.

    Comment by Al — 9/3/2006 @ 2:01 pm

13. Hmm. I think he’s right that the conservative-liberal spectrum doesn’t describe nearly as much as people often appear to think it does; and I think he’s right that what we consider to be far left would be considered mildly left-of-center in many other countries. (Of course, what we consider to be far right would also be considered only mildly right-of-center in many other countries, a fact which is often forgotten with such polemics).

    [Well, exactly. If I complained that the spectrum here was radical leftists on one end, and moderates with conservative leanings on the other . . . why, you might think I'm I conservative -- even if I denied it! -- P]

    But then again: i’m a liberal, so maybe patterico’s characterization is valid.

    Comment by aphrael — 9/3/2006 @ 10:09 pm

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