AN APOLOGY. If I were some sort of genius math nerd cartoonist, I'm sure I'd be able to create an equation showing how the probability of sounding like an ass approaches 1 as the frequency of your posts increase. I hit the magic number yesterday in a post on the Third Way and polling. From the beginning, the piece went awry. I was trying to make a point on the effects of majority-minority districts that came off as mere piling-on the Third Way report. Then I went into a bit of a half-baked theory on the deep affection my center-left friends seem to have for polling, which, judging from the reaction I got, implied that Third Way'ers and DLC-types are insincere in their beliefs and led around by polling. That wasn't the intent at all.
