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You know, my wife and I were out one night walking the street, when we saw a couple alighting from a gleaming Toyota Land Cruiser adorned with Bush/Cheney bumpersticker, just as a couple of black teenagers walked by. And what was interesting was that not only didn't they immediately leap back into the car and lock all the doors--they actually said "Hello" to them!

Imagine: conservatives acting like human beings. My spouse said, "I just wanted to run over and hug them!" I agree: We need to see more of that. After all, in a nation where so many media conservatives demonstrate complete cluelessness about minorities, it was great to see two conservatives acting like equality is a natural fact of human interaction. And it felt good, it did, to cheer these all-too-rare displays of basic human decency from a segment of the population that is beset on so many sides by obstacles to tolerance: gated communities, fear-mongering periodicals, white demagogues, unadmitted drug dependencies, religious hypocrisy, and let's face it, just pig-ugly ignorance.

We all want conservatives to succeed at being fully human. It's a basic human trait. And that's the beauty of keeping a constant mental tally of conservative behaviors the rest of us take for granted, because it also reminds us of our own superiority. I'm sure conservatives appreciate being recognized this way too.

What could be wrong with that?