I know some may think my "from the bottom up" protest is trivial.  It is, unless, of course, a lot of us start doing it.  I suspect that it is becoming more common.  As a conservative, it was hard for me even to imagine altering my lifelong habit of beginning the day by picking my paper off the driveway.  It took a truly abysmal performance by the press (not to mention the "entertainment" shows) to get me over the hump. For example, I didn't mind Tina Fey's mocking of Sarah Palin.  It was good, legitimate satire.  But when Fey took to the talk shows to insult Palin, I had had enough. Was Fey afraid that her her dull fans would actually think she approved of Palin because imitation is the sincerest form of flattery?  Heaven forbid, so Fey had to get out the truth on the talk show circuit.  And, then, the press actually put snippets of the Fey interviews on hard news channels to further undermine Palin.  Speaking of the overlap between entertainment and news.  Flash: CNN reports that Tina Fey thinks Sarah Palin is about as dumb as Fey herself.  Fey may have gained 10 fans for every one like me who will never see another movie she makes, but at least she won't have 11 fans.  I have also now abandoned my terribly convenient local movie theater.  Years ago, it devised a new marketing ploy, devoting a large chunk of its marquee to expressing sentiments typical of the progressive elite who live nearby:  Bush is a criminal and traitor and should be impeaced; Diebold is fixing elections (where is it when we need them?).  Again, as a creature of habit and a lover of convenience, I kept going to my local theater, blithely ignoring the marquee's dire warning me that Republicans were turning America into a police state.  No more.  And, while I'm on the subject, why do Republicans still give generously to their elite alma maters, notwithstanding that the progressive ideology is a staple there, while the ideals of limited government, self-reliance, free markets and individual liberty are only mentioned in order to ridicule.  Is it that important to help maintain the prestige of the schools we attended?  More important even than making donations to conservative educational institutions (ISI, for example) that will help turn the tide?