The level of discourse keeps rising

I've had a weakness for right-wing American talk radio since just about the time I got my first radio. Do I listen for the intelligent conversation and the astute political analysis? But of course.

Like last night, when I flip on Michael Savage (slogan: "Borders. Language. Culture.") and the first words I hear are, "Am I saying all liberals have a mental disorder?"

Of course, Savage is not without a sense of humour ("Most Americans don't know anything about the Middle East. You're too busy reading about Tolkien's Middle Earth"), and sometimes I have to wonder if the whole thing isn't a big joke to him. After all, this is one of the most right-wing of right-wing talk-show hosts -- but also a guy who, in his previous incarnation as Michael Weiner, was pals with Allen Ginsberg and wrote piles of books on herbal medicine.