But I AM pressing charges!

I just received this article by email from a Democratic friend with a note: "According to this, Bob, you're a real liberal."

I concur. I didn't leave the Left; the Left left me.

A "neoconservative" has been defined by someone- I forget who- as "a liberal who's been mugged by reality." A "progressive" has been described with equal aptness by someone else whose name I can't remember as "a liberal who has been mugged by reality- but who has declined to press charges."

I guess I'm a neoconservative.