I sometimes say I’m so far left, I’m right. I don’t think that makes any sense, but it does appeal to my basic view of reality as continuum. I think of myself as a fiscal conservative. I like guns. I have trouble with full frontal nudity. It seems like I should really be a Republican. Certainly, some of the people I like to hang out with are Republicans. I’m not thinking of them when I consider this question. I have this annoying habit of judging people as individuals rather than by group affiliation. If you’ve ever known me you know never to tell me a racist joke. But I can’t apply that behavior when it comes to a group that one selects into. So, again, why am I not a Republican? I can be as much of a dick-head as your average Republican. I can treat Palin like an eye-candy twit. I can say fuck you to the homeless. So, seriously, why am I not a Republican? I guess I still need to leave the question open. I do have a problem with turning the world’s greatest military into the world’s most expensive police department. I do have a problem with the calculated manipulation of an ignorant electorate using lies and innuendo delivered by media shrills. I do have a problem with the hypocritically un-American labeling of a dissenting me as non-patriotic. So, why am I not a Republican? I guess I just don’t like being a punk.