Since Roger is well-known to be a fair, balanced, judicious, and non-partisan public intellectual . . .

But certainly not as fair, balanced, judicious, and non-partisan as the Huffington Post and Oliver Willis. Oh Please. Have any more lefty outlets you want to put forward as promulgating self-evident truth? How about DailyKos, Eschaton, MyDD? Now that’s where the reality based community finds out what’s really going on (of course their “reality” is actually an alternate reality, some kind of Star Trek thing).