Here’s a fun email from a reader:

I thought you might find this interesting. I recently met a very nice Berkeley woman who started an organization for conservative singles here in the San Francisco Bay Area (long overdue!). We just had our second meeting at a brewpub in Berkeley, and after she printed an innocuous little promo piece on the Internet saying how well the event went, she got a couple of pieces of completely unprovoked, spontaneous hate mail, including this lovely evocation of the modern “liberal”’s heart and soul:

>From: [Name withheld]
>Reply-To:
>Subject: RE: (politics) Single Conservatives Club
>Date: Wed, 2 Jul 2003 10:53:54 -0700
Hey idiot, Republicans are not Conservative, they are rushing pell mell to kill all the life on the planet weather animal or vegetable or mineral. Conservatives conserve. When Republicans have nothing left to destroy, they invariably turn on each other and start humiliating and defiling weaker republicans. And get your stinkin’ asses out of Berkeley for christ’s sake!! Who the hell let you barbarians into town in the first place? We need a militia which will guard Berkeley and refuse creeps like you from entering town in the first place. Do not continue to meet in Berkeley!

As my friend says, “Isn’t it nice how tolerant liberals are?”

Bob Pryor / [email protected]

(If you find this interesting enough to mention, feel free to reference my name. And my e-mail address for that matter, since hatemail doesn’t bother me, and we can use all the publicity we can get in recruiting conservative singles out here in Mordor. Best to the Fair Jessica & Lucy & Cosmo.)