It was a perfectly sensible question ducks. The thing about right and left is....not everybody subscribes to that way of thinking. Some people like to take things issue by issue and don't like being labelled as right or left. Myself, i am quite happy to describe myself as leftwing. That doesn't mean I don't examine every issue on its merits; it does mean that I have a particular analysis through which I tend to view issues and events. That analysis is a left wing one, i take a marxist analysis of the world.

Labels such as these are most often applied and used as shortcuts, as stereotypes. As stereotypes, they're not very useful. I'm sure you have experience with stereotypes, right? They have only a superficial usefulness.

And as shortcuts, well, they're just pointers to the facts. You still have to go get the facts yourself. But many people just stop at the shortcut and decide that they "know" something because they've been told it's right or left this or that.

That is me, but I don't care what you call me, as long as it is not late for dinner or beers.:D

The answer was (probably) just: Confirmation Bias.

The mental checklist which assists you in reinforcing the ideas you already have, IE "Another one of <those>!"

(Upon the realization of which, you think to yourself, maybe that's not fair, but then again, you think, hell it can't just be a coincidence...)

Negro, stop already....

Hope for lumberjim:

http://www.thesun.co.uk/article/0,,1...230354,00.html

$100 says my wife is hotter that your ex.

oh, and i make 3 times what you make, minimum. and i have 2 beautiful kids that actually like me.....and i enjoy my life....and i'm taller and prettier than you are....even as fat as i am.

Ok... In your fantasies. That's cool. Short fat guys need love too. I'm in. :D

LJ wins on all counts thus far - post some numbers and that woman so we can see that he beats you on all counts, Merc.