MORE ON L’AFFAIRE BRITTNEY, here, and here. Also here, and a poll, here.

UPDATE: Beware the bloggers’ bile! “The smart stuff is being drowned out by a fierce, bullying, often witless tone of intolerance that has overtaken the left-wing sector of the blogosphere. Anyone who doesn’t move in lockstep with the most extreme voices is savaged and ridiculed.” Even when, as in Brittney’s case, the ridiculers are confused.

ANOTHER UPDATE: More here. And here.