I believe this entire liberal vs. conservative issue is about to be settled, as december’s seminal study (sorry, Scylla), Why Nearly All Serial Killers and Other Bad People Are Liberals is shortly to be published in the Journal of Irreproducible Results.
The text is a closely guarded secret, but I have been able to obtain a list of the paper’s references, and they are little short of stunning. An excerpt follows.
REFERENCES
Something somebody said on Fox the other day.
Ibid.
Ibid.
The way it was when I was growing up.
Op. cit.
Common knowledge in New Jersey.
Ibid.
Ibid.
The Israeli Army Home Page.
Op. cit.
Conservatism Is The Epitomy of Evil, by Boris and Natasha.
Something Mrs. december said to me at dinner the other day.
Ibid.
I remember somebody saying this on the SDMB.
Ibid.
Rabid.
This great website, though I don’t know whose it is.
I am confident that december’s paper will settle this entire brouhaha.
I happen to have it on good authority that there was an additional reference that you missed : "I read it in a book by some op/ed author, here’s the cite at Amazon.com ".
Conservatives aren’t supposed to have a sense of humor. please return yours to it’s proper liberal owner ( )