Too true! The notion that the guys who have zillion dollar investment accounts are all conservative is nuts. Anybody ever hear of George Soros? Warren Buffett? JOHN KERRY, for crying out loud? There's a very definite tendency for people who have made their pile to develop messianic delusions, to become convinced that shrewd investment sense makes one a "deep thinker", a philosophe. This is exactly the sort of puffed up, self-important, meddlesome jackassery that lends itself to liberal/leftist ideologies of one sort or another.

Ace,

I talked this over with Eric. Here's what we decided: There are two kinds of rich guys.

The first kind, when he's done getting his wing tips polished, he toe-pokes the young bootblack in the eye. And then he brags about it to the person next to him. That's the Republican rich guy.

The second kind, the supposedly "Democrat" rich guy, tips the bootblack, thanks him, then goes home and pokes his wife in the eye.

(The evil has to get out somehow.)

Supposedly the Viacom execs are liberal. For a rich guy that means you can watch homeless person get savaged by some rabid pigeons and not get a hard on. But you do think about it all day. Well, of course, he's a "Democrat."

Make sense?