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.