pull back some. tonight i was thinking about a guy called mel bradford. mel bradford was one of those neoc neoconfederates. there was talk ron reagan would make him head on the council of humanties. there was a huge blowback in the conservative movement against the neoconfederate ideas. those forces are now on their way back with influence on the right and i think it s something our friends on the right really have to think about and start speaking out against. do you see any sparks on the right? i think you re right that the place to look for it immediately is a self-policing impulse or at least some sort of sign of embarrassment on the right so people on right can talk to each other about this. do you see any spark there? any signs of life? i had expected to see more of it by now. funnily enough, you re seeing it with george w. bush. george w., whatever else we say about him, he may have been wrong about iraq, but he always spoke with real feeling about