Byzantium's Shores: chronicling the misadventures of an overalls-clad hippie

I have a question: Why, in the course of spending over 6500 words theoretically defending the concept of reason, in which one starts promisingly but eventually veers off (and predictably, at that) into a tiresome tirade against liberals, would you invoke NPR, of all things, as your catch-all, "Look at them stoopid libruls" shorthand insult? Especially when those stoopid libruls probably aren't that much more enamored of NPR than you are?