Somebody has finally managed to put it into words - the fact that membership in the cultural elite is predicated on Liberal bias. Snobbery is alive and well, folks. You can't discuss stuff with these guys, because the very fact that you disagree with them PROVES that you are not up to snuff intellectually. Over the years all the real arguments for the left-liberal position, involving evidence and rational deliberation, have been exploded one by one. Thus rational discussion itself has become a sign of bad taste, of a pugnacious Appalachian kind of insensitivity, with a hint of a possible tendency to tobacco chewing, gun racks, talk radio, pickup trucks, wife-beaters and incest. There is left but one simple rule for the new upper crust: by all means prefer victims to oppressors, but always prefer oppressors to true liberators. http://www.techcentralstation.com/1051/techwrapper.jsp?PID=1051-250&CID=1051-060303A