That describes just about every post or comment on KOS or DU isn’t it? I always get a kick out of it. Or, more generally, listening to any leftist attempt to explain their policy positions.

The interesting thing is, you assume you are a smart person whose writing demonstrates how a smart person sounds. Not sure I would agree with that. What do you define as “smart person”. Is it educational bona fides? Life experience? Or, as I suspect, does “smart person” mean someone you agree with?

Moreover, plenty of intelligent people are not the best writers. And, many of the best writers are really not that smart about certain issues. So what? I have an advanced degree from a top school, work in a profession, read a lot, and have a high IQ score, so by any criteria you would use, I am probably a “smart person.” Yet, I would be willing to bet that we disagree on who is a “smart person” or “smart writer”. I think most of what is in TNR or the Nation is Drivel, that Noam Chomsky isn’t all that great, and that Krugman is wrong almost always. So, can I point to their writing and say that it demonstrates a stupid person writing how they believe a smart person sounds? I suppose I’m not that insecure about my own political beliefs to have to go straight to insults.

How about addressing points rasied instead of mean-spirited insults? Although, reading lefty boards, insults is all the left seems willing or able to do these days, so I guess I ask too much.

- GB

God, I hope not.

Having met Grim, I doubt you qualify anywhere near his intellectual horsepower. Thanks for playing.

Cordially,

Uncle J

I never thought I would be writing one of these letters, but the other day I met this peaceful, gentle soul, and before you know it, one thing leads to another, and we’re having a debate.

And I say to her, “It is best that we bomb without fear.”

Her eyes grow wide. “You are mad,” she says.

So then I say, “”It is our love of these innocents that endangers them.”

She bites her lip.

“It must be,” I tell her sadly. “We can only do, and pray, that when we are done we may be forgiven.”

She starts crying and I undo her bra-strap.

I always used to think these stories were made up but now I know better.

Yours sincerely, Grim.

A recovering Movement Conservative friend of mine once said to me, “know what I hate? People who use the word “bailiwick” in conversation.”

Feel the gravitas! It’s a shallow person’s idea of how a deep person sounds.