don't ask, don't get beat up by smelly old hippies

Greg Gutfield has a list of questions (mild vulgarity warning) not to ask "progressives", including these:

if 'dissent is patriotic', then why are you guys being so brutal to Joe Lieberman for dissenting from you on Iraq?

are you stuck in that horrible little place that prevents you from feeling anything positive about the country you call home?

(is it) possible that your 'all Republicans are stupid or evil' schtick from bumpersticker to watercooler to cocktail chatter causes everyone else to feel very uncomfortable, but they just chalk up your rudeness to a simple mind?

do you think JFK would approve of Michael Moore?

do you think RFK would approve of Teddy Kennedy?

do you think Teddy Kennedy would approve of reduced fat Pringles?

is the.. hysteria that defines the left simply a function of Baby Boomers collectively knowing that their progeny have no intention of carrying on their philosophical and political legacy when they (soon) pass, or is it just gas?

One of the other questions inspired a compromise to the stem cell debate: The right will allow the legalization of embryonic stem cell research if the left will agree that any benefits gained from the research must be tested on spotted owls and baby seals. ;)