[Philboid Studge]

I know, Cap'n. The psychoses affects the whole damn magilla, left and right. But just FYI, I don't consider Democrats 'The Left,' not more than a handful of them anyway. (And Jesse Jackson is an embarassment waiting to happen.) I don't really make much of a distinction between Dems and Repubs, generally speaking. You could count the true liberals in the Democratic party on one hand (you notice how popular Feingold's call for censure was among 'liberal' Dems?) I suppose we could generalize and say the Repubs have more of that Ol Time Religion, whereas Dems have a bigger dose of New Age hooey, (with Catholicism spread like manure over both parties).

But The Nation is a leftist newspaper, and it was dispiriting to see such horseshit given print space. (Believe me, not the first time I've been disappointed by The Nation.)

Anyway, you're right. Everybody's cuckoo bananas.