In Need of a Bath

I am weirded out by my 100% agreement with one of the leading Neoconservative writers of the day. Charles Krauthammer wrote a piece for the Washington Post last week about how ironic the Islamist (read: Islamist, not Islamic) reaction to the Pope was.

But he's right:

Religious fanatics, regardless of what name they give their jealous god, invariably have one thing in common: no sense of humor. Particularly about themselves.

If there's one thing I'm more in favor of than civil dialogue and centrist politics, it's having a sense of humor. And, on this relatively nuanced point, Krauthammer got it right.

The Pile Should Never Be This Big

I don't care about the push to ban gay marriage in the constitution, I don't care about the religionization of our government, I don't even care that corruption runs rampant through our congress. Keep it. I don't care.

This is why I'm required by conscience to be a political scientist. It's up to me to fix it, because no one else seems to be. But dear God I hope there are others out there with my same mentality, and that I meet them some day.