[nmh]

No surprise.

Liberals have to ANNOUNCE it like Gates etc. because liberals are typically GREEDY and want to spend YOUR money. Maybe that's why LIBERALS require so much hoopla when they let the moths fly out of their wallets.

[George W. Bush]

article: "These are not the sort of conclusions I ever thought I would reach when I started looking at charitable giving in graduate school, 10 years ago," he writes in the introduction. "I have to admit I probably would have hated what I have to say in this book."

Like Lott with the merits of concealed weapons, you gotta love it when liberal academics start out assuming some incontroverible truth (liberals good, conservatives evil) and their own research changes their own minds and they have the courage to write about it, enraging the other liberal academics and the media.

Besides Lott, I also think of Lawrence Tribe who enraged the anti-gun lobby by asserting a strong right to bear arms under the Second Amendment. Really made them mad that their top legal guy and likely nominee for the Court would support the Second so forcefully.

An academic more wedded to truth than to his own politics and ideology is always interesting.

[proud_yank]

Liberals have to ANNOUNCE it like Gates etc. because liberals are typically GREEDY and want to spend YOUR money. Maybe that's why LIBERALS require so much hoopla when they let the moths fly out of their wallets.

I have never met a liberal who is as generous with their money as they are with someone elses' money, which isn't a definition of 'generosity'. I've only met a couple who I would call generous at all.

Furthermore, they always seem inclined to publicly announce something stupid they did, which they feel, not think, happens to fall in line with their beliefs.

'Hey, I bought a brand new Subaru because it gets better gas mileage than an Excursion'...

'I'm going to eat at the organic store to help save brother earth' (and to get there usually requires driving across town, as opposed to walking to a store nearby).