I've talked in the past about my George Will Ratio which was based upon the number of times I agreed with George Will vs the times I disagreed with him, and used it as a metric of the reasonableness of any given opponent. The idea is that even conservatives, given enough time, will be right about something. Well, last week, with our blogging about da Popa's inflammatory comments generating an excessive response, we've managed to finally create an overlap with two conservative sources of opinion that I never thought would happen.

In fact, my Popa post overlapped in most major ways with both the WSJ editorial page and, of all possible freaking commentators, Charles freaking Krauthammer who I have never agreed with before. I mean, holy crap, Krauthammer? This guy previously had a ratio approaching zero.

So, does that mean I'm losing my mind? Or is the absolute disproportional response of the zealots in response to da Popa so beyond the pale that we can all agree on solidarity behind protection of freedom of expression that has been challenged by the response to Danish cartoons, the assassination of Theo Van Gogh, the fatwah against Rushdie, and now the assassination of a nun and firebombing of churches in response to a overinterpretation of comments by Ratfinger?