'Hippie Crap Saves The World: Can better orgasms and upping your personal vibe really thwart BushCo idiocy?' is yet another thought-provoking column from S.F. Chronicle commentator Mark Morford:

Wanna know what conservatives really hate?

What makes everyone from harmless GOP dittoheads to ultra-right-wing nutjobs full of rage and hiss and homophobia and blind jingoism roll their eyes and throw up their hands and scamper for their Bibles for reassurance that life is still repressed and we're still going to war and Dubya is still smackin' 'round the envurment along with them wimmin and homosekshuls and furriners?

Why, hippie crap, of course. New-age babble about love and peace and godless pagan prayer, organic foods and sustainable trees and chakras, divinity and luscious goddesses and soul paths and upping your personal vibration to counter all the venomous hatred slinging about the culture like some sort of conservative, fearmongering weapon of mass depression. Man, they just hate that.

It's funny because it's true! Mark is right, a lot of us right-wing types (especially partial-WASP types like me) need to relax a bit more, let loose a bit more, and just relax and enjoy life. Mark is not just a talented commentator, he's also quite a bit of a poet. Apparently, he used to be in a band in L.A., and his writing has a musical quality all its own. I highly recommend his columns, and I think any conservative can learn a lot from them.