perfidy

For showing how you can have financial discipline AND a national health care system!

For having a hemp-tolerant culture, at least for now.

For providing opposition to Buckethead. Did you really have to IMPORT someone to do this? Are there truly no liberals left?

Thanks to the Perfidy folks, all better writers than I, for the opportunity to provide some opposition. All I can do is offer facts; the eloquence will escape me...most of the time.

I am a level playing field capitalist. I think that we need to provide basic health care and education to every citizen, and if we don't, we make the American (or Canadian, take your pick) Dream so much harder to achieve. I think hard work should be rewarded, but I don't buy the "cut the taxes until the social systems bleed" crap. I think the environment is in danger, and that we can't risk NOT doing anything about it.

I believe that there are factual rights and wrongs, when it comes to politics. Partisan politics has, over the past few years, degraded in its discourse to the point where otherwise intelligent, learned people will argue black is white, up is down; you'll find them on both sides of the aisle.

Let the hazing commence.