You're not being persnickety. You're rushing to judgment because it gives you an excuse to put on a big show of pwning me-the-thoughtless-fanboy.

"X and Y are the same" is a lesson we all learned on Sesame Street, and isn't much worth discussing.

Rather than give some kind of credit to PG for anticipating NG, I wanted to point out how weird it is for the two of them to be agreeing. Gingrich is respectful of tradition and has a politician's instincts for rationalization and euphemism. Graham has said (along with everything else) that groups of people are inherently dumb and lazy, and is almost contemptuously truthful.

There's plenty of real intellectual content in there if you take the time to dig for it, and much of it is cool and subversive...

Sorry, Dan, but the strange loop generated by what I am submitting here is irresistible. Cheers: http://www.whattofix.com/blog/archives/2007/12/the_guy.php

Thanks. That really threw me in a loop.