To Sean Clark, writer of the inflammatory and frankly juvenile letter condemning "knucklehead liberals," this particular knucklehead liberal feels obligated to offer a lesson in dialectics that Clark perhaps missed in his classes as a political science major. You see, when form an argument, especially in the realm of politics, it is advisable not to portray yourself as an insulting and short-sighted curmudgeon who seems to get all his news spoonfed from Bush's White House spin doctors and The O'Reilly Factor.

Allow me to elaborate. In referring to liberals, Clark proclaims, "extremist environmentalist views are destroying the industry infrastructure of this country." This is in response to Bush critics' condemnation that our president has renegged on a campaign promise to limit the carbon dioxide production of our nation's coal industry. Asserting that CO2 is in fact exacerbating global warming is not in any way an extremist view any more. In fact, Paul O'Neil, Bush's treasury secretary and former Alcoa aluminum industry giant has said himself that carbon dioxide presents an environmental threat almost as great as that of nuclear holocaust.

This issue should be about balance, Sean Clark, not blanketing conservative rhetoric. After all, if our economy could flourish so well under eight years of a knucklehead liberal such as Bill Clinton, I don't think we need to cry extremism over the basic realization that pollution is a big problem in this over-consumptive country, and that Bush is simply another puppet in compassionate clothing doing exactly what corporations direct him to do.