I went to the library today with Monkus, and I picked up High Crimes and Misdemeanors by Ann Coulter.

I've seen her on CNN and FoxNews and MSNBC a couple times apeice, and every time I hear her I laugh at the amount of vitriol and anger such a pretty woman can generate. And then I think about what she's saying.

And it's pretty good, overall.

In the first chapter of her latest book, Treason, she asks, "Why is patriotism not a quantifiable quality?" And, after the silliness of asking how a quality can be quantified wears off (let alone the now implicitly asked quality of patriotism), I begin to digest the gist of what she's saying.
How can people who slam the US for a living be called patriotic? Are they just trying to make the US a better place? Doubtful.
What she comes up with, not surprisingly, is that Liberals hate America. While I don't hold that conviction for most of the Liberals I know (I live in Massachusetts, fer cryin' out loud - I couldn't possibly be that bitter) it does shed a little insight into how some of these career Liberals and college-educated hippies think.
Hate America? I don't think so. Distrust America. Definitely. I think these lost souls really think America is out to crush it's poor citizens, to roll over our civil liberties, and to strip-mine the world of trees and people in benefit of Coca Cola's bottom line.

How misguided.