Lacking the intestinal fortitude for such things that I had in my younger days, I've spared myself the dreary punishment (though possibly combined with inadvertent hilarity) of viewing the lunacy on display in the nation's capital today. There are threads running on Free Republic for those who want to sample it without being overwhelmed by it in all its CSPANish videofied glory.

As an antidote to the idiocy, here are a couple of articles by leftists who haven't utterly lost their minds--Christopher Hitchens, and Johann Hari.

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