>What bothers me with Alex Cockburn is that i think he actually likes
>them -- he likes the gun fetishism, the macho Western Wild Man thing,
>the rejection of liberal pussyfooting and "pwogwessive" values (his
>term).
This may be true. Last time I ran into him, Cockburn denounced me as an "urban weenie" who "hates the West." I guess having horses in the backyard makes you more authentically situated in nature.
Doug