More litmus tests

You have to love the internet. In the course of making the point that while both the hard left and the hard right reject modern society, the right seems to have a better time in doing so, James Lileks writes:

... if they’re cultural conservatives, they retire to their version of Heston’s apartment in “The Omega Man,” surrounded by the remnants of Western glory, keeping to themselves, and venting their spleen now and then by burping off a few rounds at the moaning zombies outside in the darkened park.

Where else in the world would somebody make a cogent political metaphor out of Charlton Heston's forgotten classic, which all Omegaphiles remember was based on a Richard Matheson story and had been previously made into Vincent Price's Last Man on Earth. Oh, and by the way, Lileks is also correct about the left being a bunch of dour, life-hating, kill-joys.