SO PEOPLE ARE EMAILING ME ABOUT STANLEY KURTZ’S NEW BOOK, Spreading the Wealth: How Obama is Robbing the Suburbs to Pay for the Cities.

I haven’t read it yet — in fact, I don’t think I’ve even gotten it yet — but the general lefty hatred of suburbs reminds me of what P.J. O’Rourke said about cars:

Cars didn’t shape our existence; cars let us escape with our lives. We’re way the heck out here in Valley Bottom Heights and Trout Antler Estates because we were at war with the cities. We fought rotten public schools, idiot municipal bureaucracies, corrupt political machines, rampant criminality and the pointy-headed busybodies. Cars gave us our dragoons and hussars, lent us speed and mobility, let us scout the terrain and probe the enemy’s lines. And thanks to our cars, when we lost the cities we weren’t forced to surrender, we were able to retreat.

Come to think of it, lefties hate cars, too.