I’ve never met John Scalzi, but I hope I do someday. We’ve emailed a few times after discovering that we’re separated by two degrees of separation (we share the same literary agent).

John writes a web column called Whatever, and I just read one of his recent columns, I Hate Your Politics, which I predict will someday be mass-forwarded by email 10,000 times without attribution to John (or alternately, attributed to Vonnegut).

Some fair-use excerpts to encourage you to just go and read the column:

Liberals: The stupidest and weakest members of the political triumvirate, the political equivalent of the kid who lets the school bully pummel him with his own fists.

Conservatives don’t actually bother to spend time with people who are not conservative, and thus become confused and irritable when people disagree with them; fundamentally can’t see how that’s even possible, which shows an almost charming intellectual naiveté.

Libertarians blog with a frequency that makes one wonder if they’re actually employed somewhere or if they have loved ones that miss them.