As Dyer says, it’s an “episode of political theater that would make Josef Stalin blush.”

Ahem. Why must both sides make analogies that allude to people like Stalin and Hitler. I understand that the master trope of the blogosphere is hyperbole, but honestly, can you sya with any sort of straight face this report would strike Stalin as theatrical. Or, to take a common leftist approach, that George Bush is Hitler.

If we do not stop shouting (and hyperbole is the printed equivalent of Fox news/MSNBC shouting) we are not going to make any progress in approaching any of the real troubles in our country.

Now, as ever, we need a Middle Way.