From time to time, I think it's useful to publish some of the scant amount of emails I receive here at Basie! (you can email me whenever you want here). This is one I particularly enjoyed.

Subject: Hi, hippie!

When you get a chance to put down the bong, remember what Churchill said:
"If you're a conservative at 20, you have no heart. If you're a liberal at 40 you have no brain."

At 20, I was an angry, aimless, self-righteous student too, even though I was pretty much a spoiled white kid with no real right to bitch about anything. But times change, people grow (up), and what's really important in life eventually reveals itself.

Mercifully for you, you've still got time to come around. Until then, good luck saving the world.

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I think the Churchill quote is a little hackneyed, if I don't say so myself, though I suppose if you're conservative you must love it.

What do you think? Am I that liberal?

I might be partisan (I'll admit that), but I don't think of myself as particularly liberal though (ideologically, at least). You read what I have to write... I'd love to get your feelings (and you don't have to be gentle... I don't mind trolls, as long as they're not too nasty).