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It seems that a local doctor, who happens to be the director of Neuromedical/Neurosurgical Intensive Care at the University of Chicago, has a bit of a dark side: serial indecency. For supposedly being such a smart guy, he sure is an idiot.

There was a fantastic interaction tonight between John Stewart and Bernard Goldberg on The Daily Show. I think it's so wonderful that conservatives have the guts to go on such an openly liberal (and, thankfully, intelligent) show to duke it out with Stewart. And while things often get pretty tense on occasion, Stewart can always find some sort of common ground and end the interview on a positive note. But really, he kind of has to do that, or else he risks becoming the exact person that he lampoons on regular basis. It's a joy to watch a smart "keepin' it real" guy do his thing like this.

So there's been some talk recently about domestic terrorists and their connection to the murders involving Judge Joan Lefkow's husband and mother. There are websites out there run by white supremacists heavily lauding the killings, and at the same time, Matthew Hale (the guy who has had a major grudge against Lefkow for quite a while now, and is currently in jail) called the murders "heinous" and has said that anyone who thinks that he is somehow involved with them is "an idiot." Well of course he didn't murder them himself, but I think it's pretty obvious that he could easily have an indirect connection to the crime. Does he expect us to believe that while all of his followers are giving high-fives, he's standing in front of them saying "Come on guys, stop it. Two people got murdered for goodness sake!" I doubt it.

But anyway, I enjoy the irony of the fact that most of these guys consider themselves to be at the pinnacle of patriotism, yet they're functionally the same as any foreign terrorist who would give his life to destroy this country.

I'm not usually one to be pessimistic about things, but I'm not feeling too hot about this election thing right now. Dare I say that I'm losing faith in the judgment of my fellow citizens?

I wonder...do many politically-polarized folks ever come to the realization that it's impossible for either the left or the right to be correct all of the time? Do they know that there's this very distinct possibility that truths exist in both liberal and conservative thinking? Or that for any nation to sustain, it needs a healthy balance of influence from both sides?

Eh, probably not. I guess that's why they're polarized in the first place.