Basket: A First Four bet plus the double zero. But I know there are lots of people who see themselves on my left — though I bet I’m to their left on some things! These are well-educated, intelligent people who wish urgently to be good and to do good things in the world, people who think of themselves as open-minded and tolerant. I concede that plenty of people on the right agree with me that it’s terribly sad. know you people on the left aren’t reading this, but if you were, I would tell you: the right is laughing triumphantly. It’s not that I think everyone ought to read my blog, but I can’t understand how people interested in politics feel averse to reading bloggers who are in the middle, who are not blogging in order to stir up the troops on one wing or the other, but who are genuinely trying to speak honestly, as an individual and who are open to argument. Nearly everybody I count as a friend from the first few decades of my life is still true-blue, and now that I am multi-colored, I find that I cannot talk about politics with most of them at all.

By itself, that hardly makes you a right-winger, so I think it says more about his/her politics than it does about yours. Despite this gloomy analysis, remember that your blog is popular for a reason: You strive for thoughtfulness and fairness, and people recognize that more often than not. That includes a lot of reasonable people who read the papers and vote, not lefty activists who wouldn’t listen to conservatives under any circumstances. I mean, if they can’t read you guys, the centrists, and think even the left is betraying them, and this wave of thought is becoming more and more status quo, how can anyone actually on the right have a conversation with them? Karl Rove plant at worst and betraying their own side at best – and thus seek to ostracize him – they’ve gone all unhinged. Wouldn’t you feel disenfranchised if you were on the losing side this often, and under sometimes-dubious circumstances? But this happens less and less often, and most of the time, our discussions are fun.

Most of the time, neither of us manages to change the other’s point of view one bit — but we have a good time trying. Instead, there are just two categories: good views, which correspond with their own, and terrible views, which don’t. So, here are some good bets that might just get you a fish or two. To them, it seems, admitting that I don’t share every one of their views on the war in Iraq, or the privatization of Social Security, or the artistic genius of Michael Moore, or whatever the topic of the day might be, would be tantamount to admitting that I am no longer a good person or a potential friend. I have come to suspect that to many of my liberal friends, there really isn’t a political spectrum of various views out there. It didn’t come naturally to disagree without fighting, and once in a while we lose perspective and get angry for a while.

In order to really get the answers to your question, I highly recommend you go straight to the net’s leading site about this issue here. Sure, he had his bloopers and goofs, but every game show host fluffs up now and then. It’s possible that a simple “broken across one black square” concept would’ve worked better, and then maybe another “house” could’ve been included. He also gives a lot of letter frequencies and warns against the crafty producers, who make the bonus round as tricky as possible. ANOTHER UPDATE: As I’ve said before, I think there are some people on the left who want to be that fervent, self-regarding minority. There won’t be any Gillece complaints, just ask us how to change a broken gutter line. Once in a while I change his mind about something, once in a while he changes mine. The estimated elasticity is high–between 6 and 14. There is no evidence that market prices reacted to the subsidy, suggesting that adjustment costs are internal, or that measurement error masks the price changes. There are that only show you the front part of the house. I’ve always said there is a fine line between conditions that are just right and conditions that are too rough and dangerous.