I just pared all my beliefs down to the essentials and am clinging to those like a rock. I'm still very Reagan about national security, but absolutely against any whiff of a color line. If you are bigoted; if you tell me Chicago is bad without making it about how the White Sox are terrible people; if you tell me you won't go into the District of Columbia for some reason, it had better be because you don't like traffic. Because there a lot of coded messages out there.