Matthew Yglesias is astonishingly ignorant if this post is anything to go by. I spend a lot of time lamenting ignorant right-wing wackos, but the callowness, shortsightedness, and ill-informedness demonstrated by this single post reminds me again that the Democratic party attracts its share of shallow thinkers as well.

In another post, he jumps on the "hypocrisy" bandwagon as regards the Jack Ryan mess, conveniently ignoring the fact that this Senate candidate was, if his ex-wife's divorce filings are factual, an abusive, bullying, control freak, asshole. But, extreme exhibitions of misogyny apparently have no bearing on the fitness for office of politicians in Yglesias' world.

I continue to be astonished at the young, male, up-and-coming "political thinkers" on the Democratic side of the blogosphere. Hopefully, a hell of a lot of maturation will happen between now and when they start having real influence.

In the meantime, I'll just stay over here in the independents' corner and watch with fascinated horror. (No, no, not as bad as the Republicans, but honestly, people...)