>" Obviously I am not saying that anyone in the liberal arts is a crackpot, any more than everyone who considers themselves an environmentalist is a crackpot. Unfortunately, in both universities and the environmental movement, it's the crackpots who tend to run the show."

Don't necessarily agree the crackpots run the show, but we come close to agreement that in all cases it is the extremist that get the most notice, make the best headlines, and unfortunately paint all the rest with the same brush.

Not all right wingers are ditto heads and most people are not really so polarized that they are either left or right on all issues.

But hey, getting too serious takes some of the fun out of this. I want to go back to wondering if Eurotrash means there are trailer parks in Europe now?

Publius