Random Thought - Re-reading my

Random Thought - Re-reading my screed on the death of Joe Strummer from earlier this week, something occurred to me:

• My dad is probably a Scoop-Jackson-ish sorta-liberal.
• My mom is a far-left liberal.
• My favorite musical artists - Bruce Springsteen, Joe Strummer, Joe Grushecky - are all liberals to one degree or another
• Some of my favorite authors - Orwell et al - are liberals (and others are classical liberals, like Tolstoii and Dostoyevskii)
• The non-family, non-media/entertainment figure that had the biggest impact on my pre-college life - Reverend Bill King - was so far to the left, he went on to minister at one of those lefty wackjob Presbyterian churches in lefty wackjob Madison that served as "sanctuaries" for illegal immigrants from Central America, some of whom were most likely fugitive terrorists
• One of my favorite college professors, Dr. Stan Slade, did Rev. King one better, leaving his teaching position to serve as a missionary in Nicaragua (he was a strong proponent of liberation theology) during the height of the Sandinista regime

And yet, each of these people played a key role in making me a better, more thoughtful conservative. Vastly more so than Sean Hannity or Rush Limbaugh or Bill O'Reilly ever could.

This must be what they call a Larry King Moment...

Posted by Mitch at December 29, 2002 12:35 PM