Godlessness may have a cure. Check it out.

I consider Ann Coulter a constant joy, rather than the harpie that she is portrayed to be by many on the far left. Her columns are always outrageously funny to me, because I think I know her. I've studied her a bit and don't mean to boast familiarity. It's just that like many others that I have met, she is an amalgam of a number of former and present friends.

Although she has an acerbic wit, her humor is bittersweet, not just bitter. She means what she says, but I think she delivers her rapier thrusts with glee, not anger. She truly believes that those of the liberal pursuasion are salvagable, if she can just show them the clear error of their ways. But, instead of measured critique, which seems to be ineffective and does not communicate to her audience, she flattens them with a brilliant flourish. This kind of adroit combat is lost on most on both sides of the political spectrum, I admit. But some clear thinkers, who up to the moment of her convincing defeat of a treasured idea, were only mimics of liberal positions, not true believers, are surprised and maybe changed. Since they are used to talking only to other liberals, they don't see her quick moves coming. They find themselves suddenly, intellectually on their backs, blinking up at a smiling, long-haired blond: "This moment of truth brought to you by the goddess of the right!" Since all their preparation was in shadow boxing conservatives with their liberal friends, they believe that intelligence and cleverness and wit and style were always and only characteristics of their fellow liberals. Now they are brought up short...and if their egos and intellects survive the moment, they may actually examine and even reconsider their hitherto unassailable position. "What now? I'm on my back. That blow was unexpected, devestating, but not a sucker punch. She didn't set me up, she had a better idea or argument. Now what do I do?"

So, I heartily recommend to all my liberal friends, not an abridged Ann or a column fragment argument or what someone else says about her, or a screed from a liberal web blog which cannot read her prose without choking on bile, her latest book. Read the whole book and take her arguments seriously. You may still disagree, but for heaven's sake, do it from the composition of more intelligent debating points, not reflexive rejection and personal attack. Know her for what she is: a brilliant, beautiful spokesman for the other side of the argument, someone you have never met in your present circle of friends. Tighten your own arguments by reacting to hers, not rejecting them out of hand. You may learn something. And, along the way, enjoy the wonderful, aggressive wit and writing style. Lighten up. Laugh her off, if you must, but enjoy what she is doing. She may be an acquired taste for liberals, but I think she is fun for independent thinkers of the liberal pursuasion.

Her book, The Church of Liberalism: Godless is really special. The arguments are all her own, though they derive from a lot of conversations going on all across our country these days. But, instead of superficial bumper sticker sound bite like thoughts, she actually makes detailed arguments. Read them. Chew on them. React to them. Then comment here.