you knew we're screwed when

We're definitely on the wrong path in this country when retired Justice Sandra Day O'Connor is described by a generally respected news organization as "liberal."

Centrist, maybe. Not-as-crazy-as-Thomas-or-Alito, sure. But liberal she is not.

I really hate it when the mainstream media suggest that anyone to the left of Dick Cheney might as well go back to their naked pot-smoking hippie gay communes.

It's all a matter of perception and semantics, I guess. I mean, you know how I feel about some of the supposed "liberals" out there. But do we have to lump everyone into overgeneralized categories all the time? Sure it comes in handy now and then (just kidding! well, kind of), but, for example, just because I don't think Hillary Clinton is liberal doesn't mean I think she's Ann Coulter's best friend.

(though does anyone else think that Hillary looks a little too much like Harriet Miers if Harriet went through detox and had a facelift? Just curious...)

And just because Sandra Day O'Connor hasn't used her free time in retirement to start to start vacationing with Pat Robertson doesn't mean she's liberal.

Maybe (but don't hold me to this) it's not conservatives that are ruining this country (except for a few particular conservatives, but that's a conversation for another time). Maybe it's actually our intense need to categorize and label everything and everyone and make a really messy world fit into neat little boxes so that we can sleep well at night.

Well, that and mainstream denial that that's what we're doing. But that's another conversation, too.