And don't forget the Mother Lode: having to reap the fruits of science from morning to night, while denying its implications when it inconveniently contradicts the premises of one's class privileges or supernaturalist belief system.

But Adams spends his time lampooning caricatures of what he believes liberals believe. And now he says they believe in NOTHING. How conveeeeeeenient.

'xactly. There are certainly some conservatives with a great deal to add to the public debate (e.g., Victor Davis Hanson). I suppose Mike already had someone for the letters V, D, and H.

Wait: Glenn Beck's guests are uniformly SMART and... HUMBLE? In what sense? Mike usually has a point in his columns over and above matching the alphabet to his personal likes and dislikes. Weak week.

As I replied above, please don't waste time with word games. Everyone is talking about whether two people of the same GENDER can marry. This isn't a joke. It affects people's lives.

Be serious, won't you. Her county doesn't let two people of the same gender marry. Word games don't impress anyone.

You're looking for consistency and honesty in Adams' columns, which you won't find. He is instead playing facile word games, "You can't TOLERATE something you approve of, ha!", as if he's caught his opponents in some sort of lie. It's like if you said to your spouse "Try to put up with my parents' visit", and they said "YOU don't have to PUT UP with it, because you actually like them". Which would be a pointless and silly response. Like Adams' entire shtick here.

Listening to guys complain about women isn't a good way to get information on those women, black or white. Or vice versa.

Hi Allison, I agree with 98% of what you write here, but this is being strangely derogatory about people who choose to marry in a traditional way. If you want to have kids, it's still a reasonable way to go. It also helps delineate for the world just what your family is. I lived with my wife for many years before marrying her and having kids. We had a nice wedding; our parents and friends had a good time. It's not an evil plot. We have lots of gay friends, and wish they could have the CHOICE whether or not to marry.

Tolerance towards viewpoints other than your own does not require that THOSE viewpoints all agree. That's pretty basic.