James McNeill Whistler

Wow. Is that absolutely the ONLY string on your fiddle, Patrick?

Wow. The whole “right-wing ideological villainy” myth again.

I wish I could say I’m shocked.

The righties I see on the news and around the blogosphere seem to be constantly talking about their morals and their valuesand their religion- and they want to impose those morals, those values, and those religious beliefs on all of us for fear that they will somehow be over run if they don’t, and all the woes and ills that society faces could somehow be addressed if only they were followed.

Are these people representative of conservatism as it has evolved, unfortunately, from my personal experiences, that seems to be the case.

– and that sort of authoritarianism needs to be watched.

PS: You’re right about the zealots – discussion not possible whether they are to the left or right of centre.

Someone else mentioned the Christian penchant for seeing themselves as martyrs. It’s a long tradition. However, in recent years, at least in free countries such as the US and Canada, this “persecution” is mostly imaginary and looks a great deal like paranoia.

I do not consider myself a leftie or a liberal (or a conservative either), and I often disagree with things set forth here at SL. But I read it often, because I want to know what the more liberal element is thinking. And, I’ve found things here that made me think or re-think ideas. By and large, I’ve quit reading the more rabid right wing blogs, because rational discussion is just not possible there. I suppose it isn’t at the more zealous left wing blogs, too. I just don’t go there.

Apparently not. But that’s okay. Everyone else seems to.

The truth is an unpleasant thing to have to face. But you know what? I don’t script reality, bub. When you’re willing to address these inconvenient truths, maybe you’ll accrue yourself a little bit of credibility.

Especially since you’re taking examples of your ideological opponents ignoring key, vital details as an opportunity to brand them as liars. Now you’re being presented with just such a key, vital detail, and you’re choosing to ignore it.

But don’t worry: I won’t even say it. Truth be told, I really don’t have to.

Site name: Stageleft. Seems like a self-proclamation of “left-wing” political beliefs to me.

How did that whole “life on the lower left side” manage to escape you Patrick – see our political compass

doug newton: Your post is filed under right/wing nuts.
I assume that there is also a left/wing nuts file.
How would I access that file?

We leave that up to the other guys, personally I can’t stand reading the loonie left and had to quit listening to Air America radio for the same reason, they drive me nuts.

Zorph: — they not only confiscated them but the last we heard the animals were waterboarding the data, soggy data, oh the humanity!! does no one care about the data?

““I appreciate Kate’s site for the freedom of expression that she allows.”

Her “freedom of expression” is quite subjective. In a thread sometime ago, I addressed a commenter by her publically known name instead of her three initials.

This caused some sort of dispute about the correct way to formally address a person.

I therefore requested to be addressed as “UpMyKilt” in the future on SDA.

I was then banned.

I thought it was quite humorous

Doug, in future, save yourself time and us boredom, and simply type BUD Reference D-9. Thanks.