I agree, MTed, Mudcat political threads are sinfully entertaining.   What a cast of characters. The fuzzy-thinking Left. The commentators on the Right who are constantly looking for a sinking ship so they can lash themselves to the mast.   The intellectual giants who are beset on every hand by terrible conspiracies--and who see, as the rest of us can't, the mortal danger the world is in from:   religion, Mexicans, the "$ystem", "unhealthy knowledge"; in fact an amazingly long list.   The simon-pure ideologues who would far rather slit their wrists than compromise and actually get something done.

Who needs TV or fiction when Mudcat political threads provide so much diversion?