It’s a weird idea that what you visit and view is what you necessarily support and believe, isn’t it? How did so many liberals arrive at that asinine and clownishly clueless conclusion?

I read everything from very far-left actual communists to extremely right-wing RETVRN types. And none of those do I support. Part of it is that I just like getting a broad range of views. Otherwise, you are stunting yourself intellectually. Part is that you have no idea what’s going on in the world if you don’t come out of your turtle shell and look around. And another part is that I am merely curious.

Because I don’t have an ideology or philosophy of any human alive now (perhaps someone from 10,000 years in the future) I like to see if anyone else out there is emerging with the same thoughts, the same spirit. So far, no, not really, but if I don’t dive into the zeitgeist and the particular weltanschauung (to get crazy with the German Cheez-Whiz) of various little sub-cultures, how would I ever know?

There’s little worse than a person who believes you should be punished or shunned because you happen to read something they disagree with it. Not support it — that never seems to be the criterion. Just reading it is enough to bring about the sanctioning.

I won’t live that way.