Just in case you've forgotten Jane Smiley...

...and the Democrats' love for reasoned debate,try refreshing your memory with this, which came up in an e-conversation today. It isn't just that she is an arrogant, anti-American, Christian-bashing, classist snob, but that she apparently isn't even aware of her bigotry. What I find particularly disturbing is the lack of criticism of it from the Dems.

That really is bad news because it suggests that we have moved too far toward a period in which there is little serious political debate. Name-calling from both the Right and the Left is normal enuf, but for a number of years now it seems to have become the dominant feature of our politics. That's a bad situation.