[Old Teufel Hunden]

"It was really bizarre to me that he gave me $2,000, and he’s evil incarnate in some ways."

This sentence did not make sense to me at first and then I realized what she meant. In her mind, he's evil incarnate so there is absolutely no way he could be this generous. The take away for her from this is not that perhaps she was wrong (he's not evil incarnate), but that it was bizzare (i.e. out of character for him). Therein lies a lesson. This is a typical modern day liberal for you. She cannot conceive the notion that perhaps her initial judgement of him was wrong (usually based on what others say about him and not anything she has heard or witnessed first hand) but that he must be in some sort of fugue state to tip her $1,000 because everyone knows he's the second coming of Hitler....

[C. Edmund Wright]

I think your post 58 is correct, and it is a teachable moment. I remember the NYT columnist Nikolas Kristof writing in amazement (in 09) that conservatives are more generous to charities than liberals.

He was just stunned. I’m sure you and I knew this instinctively.