Dear maverick: anyone who admits to being a bright risks having his lights put out. But i don't object to the word as much as I do to "gay". The mutual fellatists and backward boys had a hell of a nerve to take a clean word and soil it.
They should have made a new coinage.
I think it will be a long time before the "brights" can declare their views with impunity, even though the may indeed be a silent majority.