Can’t pigeonhole George Will

Published 6:00 pm Wednesday, November 10, 2010

My Herald experience has become discombobulated. No, Jon and Julie are fine. It’s George Will’s fault. He’s rocking the boat. Again.

However, I still like the bold print idea: Asteroid collision prompts massive nuclear attack … or … First Lady makes fashion faux pas.

You know, the big stuff.

And the letters section functions perfectly as zeitgeist meter.

The Friday reality vs. crazy gauge is great. The one where the more you agree with Charles Krauthammer, the more totally wrong you are.

This is physics, not opinion. It’s an inverse square thing, like Newton’s law of gravity.

But George (Ronald Reagan guy) Will has been messing up my left/right category system for a while now.

A few weeks ago he writes that it is time to get out of Afghanistan. That’s not too bad, that’s … sane. The whole system started to shimmy.

On Nov. 1 George Will focused on Western Washington liberalism and R-71 (I voted to affirm). The real issue he raised was not this confusing referendum, but the name disclosure of those who brought it forth in order to defeat it. (“Attempt to disclose R-71 names is thuggish liberalism.”)

He defends Larry Stickney, “a social conservative” (not that there’s anything wrong with that) pointing out that in terms of voting, “people have the right to be wrong.”

George Will put a fine point on a principle of democracy. And he’s totally right.

Damn! The wheel just came off.

Oh, well, at least we still got Krauthammer.

Wayne C. Evans

Bothell