From the mailbag:

One comment: just because what you properly call "the right" takes certain positions (re Title IX, for example), doesn't mean that opponents to that position are on "the left." For example, to call The Womens Sports Foundation "the left" implies that it is other than a pretty mainstream organization. Supporting womens sports is anything but a left wing position these days. Ask all those Republican dads out there.

My friends Jim McCarthy and Eric McErlain might disagree about the WSF being mainstream, but I suppose you are right about Republican soccer dads. And conversely, I'm sure there are some people on the left who think that Title IX has been expanded too far beyond Congress's intent.

I use "the right" and "the left" as shorthand. Both are imprecise and probably inappropriate in some cases.