I'm from Minnesota, and I always hated the Metrodome. It destroyed my favorite team, the Minnesota Kicks soccer team. I now live near Columbus, Ohio, and what I like about the Columbus Crew is that they paid for their own stadium. That should be the model for teams everywhere.

Progressives always point to income inequality in society and demand that we do something about it. I point to income inequality among progressives and demand that we do something about it. Yes, it's true, there are plenty of wealthy progressives. So, why don't they voluntarily redistribute their wealth to poorer progressives? If you can't get wealthy progressives to redistribute their money voluntarily, you better give up on the idea that any other wealthy people will do so, whether voluntarily or involuntarily.

Just about anything described as "post" something else should really be described as pre-Islamist.

I suppose there were more women in college in the 60s than in the 50s, but we men still outnumbered the women. And then along came the feminists who told women how awful it was for them. Yea, right. They didn't mention the ratio at all.

And now that the ratio is working against women, why of course feminists are talking about that, too.

As people like Mark Steyn, and most recently, Christopher Caldwell have pointed out, we're losing Europe. Of what use is it to win in Afghanistan but to lose in Europe?

Anyway, our real enemy is the left. When we went into Afghanistan, it looked like the left might actually side with us, but soon enough they were asking dumb questions like, "Why do you think they hate us?" Answer: because they hate everyone, though leftists never think of that. Because the left decided that they hated us because of things we had done to them, their strategy became, "Appease, appease, appease." Europe will be gone by 2050, and America by 2100.

It's easy to explain why leftists have been so gullible on global warming. It allows them to force their agenda onto the rest of us. Leftists have never really liked suburbs or cars, and the fear of global warming allows them to force the rest of us to crowd into cities and take mass transit.

The real puzzle is explaining why leftists want to ally themselves with sexists and homophobes, that is, the Muslims. That's a complete mystery to me.

When liberals and leftists talk about the "world," what they mean is Western Europe and the Muslims. Eastern Europeans don't count. Nor do African Christians. In fact, the Kurds don't even count, even though they are Muslims.

Anyone who knows anything about the world knows that "world opinion" is quite varied. Yet, liberals and leftists talk as though Americans think one way and the rest of the world thinks another way.

Actually, I acknowledge that there is one instance of this that is true: the sport of soccer. Most Americans think it's stupid, while most foreigners are passionate about it. But since most liberals and leftists in America don't like soccer, that doesn't help them one bit.

"Buddhists don't believe in God, but try to become their own gods."

I've never heard the second part of this statement. I think maybe you're misinterpreting something.

As for the first part, I think it's true that Buddhism has an intellectual branch, which is what we hear about, that doesn't believe in God. And then there's a popular branch that we don't hear about that does believe.

Well, I'm deferring to the authority of Bruce Bawer rather than you, whom I don't know and who for all I know is just talking about walking through Muslim neighborhoods safely in order to get me to toe the leftist line.

By the way, I'm not a Christian. I'm a secularist, and I want the Western world to stay the way it is. If all secularists in the West felt as I do, then I wouldn't have any worries. Instead, too many secularists see fundamentalist Christians as the enemy and Muslims as their allies. Muslims are not the friends of secularists. They are our enemies and are worse than the Christians.

Things aren't quite as simple as you make them out to be. There are rumors from Europe of how women who aren't Muslim but who live near lots of Muslims are forced to wear burqas simply to avoid being harassed.

The way to have dealt with this situation was to require all Muslim immigrants to spend a month in sensitivity training before they could enter the country. Too late now.