"Common-sense observations about human nature are now politicized as 'conservative,' so that every knocked-up 15-year-old can be said to be engaged in liberal activism and her baby-daddy is a 'community organizer' of sorts. One imagines that nowadays the high-school Lothario, encountering resistance as he tries to get to second base with his would-be conquest, chides his prey: 'What are you? Some kind of Republican?' "