I'm becoming a product of my environment. > > But you need us, remember? If you couldn't position yourself as "sane" and > "reasonable" against a bunch of insane, unreasonable leftists, you'd have > to define yourself against all those tedious centrists & reactionaries in > DC, and you don't want to be part of their club now, do you? So you should > be far more grateful for the identity definition services we offer. I am already very well defined vis-a-vis my neighbors in D.C. as .. . . insane and unreasonable. And arguing my position here is probably equally insane, so I'd say things are consistent all around. I'm positively crackers, period, end of story. If I really wanted to stand out as a lone voice of reason, I'd join Louis' list. Bonaparte