Back in the eighties our Valley newspaper, or something like it after syndication purchase and hence editions all over the Basin, had a conservative columnist in her early writing years. Of course, there were columns which, whatever direction she went, radiated some reason and even compassion for such an Elizabethan model of the stiff-armed "x" chromosome, but her tone was set for me in 1988. For the people who resented the Willie Brown--or--Horton element that had been an element in the successful Bush presidential campaign, she wrote bluntly along the lines, "We won. You lost. Losers shouldn't expect to be acknowledged."

The true Reagan revolution for me was while it had an inclusive element ceasing from haranguing members about such issues as cutting the hair, getting out from in front of the television (yes, we have the different type of tube and its fruits now) and civil service, it certainly appeared the classic football team authoritarian model ran things in the back rooms: YOU---didn't put out. YOU---need to be tougher. YOU---promise the one-not-so-productive member one-vote clientele more easy gains when "the enemies" are out of the way.

And I was notcing the (old-) boys' cut hair worn by boardroom commandos and their compliant sons in the otherwise helmet hirsute era.

Nowadays Mrs., and I don't dare say any other, Columnist is based at a newspaper in a rather large burg among those her ilk love to prefix, speaking of, with "The People's Republic Of----". Funny, a lot of conservatives live in these places, are influential and, oh, would not take kindly to having to move. And Fridays she has been appearing in the op-ed section of the remains of our local paper. Last Friday she wrote, in her just convoluted enough manner which says "I'm an intellectual, too, maybe more than the 'other'", the liberals were milking the birthing issue in a way which rendered them as far worse than the birthers.

There, that truly says "2011". And 2011 may well be surpassing 2010 in the miserable, hate-filled year derby.

Win win!