If you’ll forgive a non-MA post, a reader alerted me to this hilarious Denver Post interview with a Colorado progressive activise named Michael Huttner. There’s no end of comment-worthy stuff in it. But I like this excerpt:

BH: Do you think conservatives just aren’t getting the right information?
Huttner: Conservatives are all about me, me, me. It’s the Ayn Rand philosophy, a totally selfish philosophy, which is just appalling to me.
BH: Could you have married a conservative?
Huttner: No way.
BH: What’s in your future?
Huttner: My goal is to build ProgressNow to 25 states. But before I got married I spent a lot of time in India, I went to the ashrams. I am interested in meditation. And if I aspire to anything, it’s just sitting and being simple and not being caught up in politics and other illusions that are thrown at us every day.
BH: How is it having children?
Huttner: We have a 3-year-old boy and a 2-year-old girl. We took them trick-or-treating and it was great. And the next day we took their bags of candy and gave them to the homeless. They couldn’t have been more excited about it.
BH: What’s your greatest fear?
Huttner: That people like Tom Tancredo and the right will once again take over Colorado.

Okay, never mind that studies have found conservatives are more philanthropic and altruistic than liberals. Forget that his “greatest fear” is not being eaten by wolverines or consumed by fire ants — it’s Tom Tancredo.

But you just have to love the “our kids love giving their Halloween candy to the homeless” story. Frankly, it smells fishy to me, but whatever. If it’s true, it won’t last long. In fact, I suspect 30 years from now, those kids cite things like that as why they’re now wildly pro-freemarket evangelical Christians.

Update: From a reader:

Jonah, I believe the trick-or-treating story from the liberal in Colorado. After all, liberals love talking about how generous they are for giving away other people’s stuff.

Oh, I believe they do it. What I don’t believe is that a 3-year-old boy and 2-year-old girl “love” giving away all of their Halloween candy. Just doesn’t pass the smell test.