So argues the great Washington Post reporter/columnist Joel Achenbach:
Is it my imagination or in recent years has hysteria become the
default response to anything even slightly controversial or offensive?So the head of Whole Foods says in an Op-Ed that he doesn't like
the health care reform proposals. Liberals are aghast. The company must
be boycotted! We'll make Whole Foods sorry it ever tried to mess with
us!
It's not just liberals who are flipping out. The conservative-but-sane Rod Dreher has had it with right-wing fanatics as well, such as those who are calling Dallas schools and yelling at principals because, says Dreher, "the president of the United States is going to give an address on education to students."
Some commentators in Texas in fact are comparing Obama not only to Hitler…but to Charles Manson!
Writes Dreher:
A Texas Republican friend this morning told me two things: a) not all
conservatives agree with these people; and b) that said, this is the
last straw for him, that he doesn't want to be associated in any way
with the GOP, which in his view has lost its collective mind.
Unfortunately, the man best suited to the task of calming the nation just left us…
Kit Stolz 
Achenbach actually has a lot of nerve writing that, since “The Washington Post” has been a hysteria inducing newspaper for quite a number of years now, collaborating with Dick Cheney on torture and cheerleading for the neocons in all their lunacy.
Speaking of nicer things, your Sierra trip looked great, and please keep linking to your journalism on this blog because it’s really good.
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